Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Drop the fuck out Bernie. [View all]WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)If the DNC steps in and declares Joe the winner, it will only give Bernie and his followers and excuse to bay at the moon some more about how the system is fixed against him. I guess it was fixed against him the entire time he's been in Congress, because he never got a damn thing done. Oh, sorry. He did manage to get 2 Post Offices named.
Sorry, but politics is about compromise...you can't always get what you want. He says himself he doesn't like that stuff. Medicare for All is a great selling point, but it's just not going to get through. Not yet. It takes something like 50 years for politicians to catch up with the public. For example, NORML was founded in 1970. Colorado & Washington went legal for recreational use in 2012. Do the math.
Bernie could have lectured all he wanted on Socialism vs. Communism, and it wouldn't have made any difference. Trump would have branded him a communist, photo shopped him into an old May Day Red Square photo, shown pictures of little old ladies in babuskas sweeping the streets and waiting in lines for bread, and cleaned his clock. We would have 4 more years of Trump, and the death knell of Democracy.
It's time to get over it and get behind Biden, as I'm sure the Bernie Bros would have demanded from the entire Democratic Party had he been the nominee.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden