Posted: 11/9/24 at 2:24pm
verywellthensigh said: "The last four years of leadership, including the Kamala campaign. have been so greasy with arrogance and incompetence it's really hard to pinpoint the one thing that made this election such a fiasco.
"I'm speaking!" and trotting out Dick Cheney were really just the cherries on top of a hot two-turd sundae.
As for Bernie, I knocked on doors throughout Pennsyltucky I was shocked at how amenable red-staters were to his ideas. It was the liberals who wouldn't listen or take it seriously."
They never have. I remember debating here in 2016 that Polls were showing Trump could lose to Hillary and Bernie miles ahead but was scorned because obviously that wasn't the mainstream thinking at the time. I do concede that there is a difference between polls during a primary vs an actual general election, but still.
One poster accused me of being privileged recently but I do want to give them a secret: I'm not economically privileged and I was given nothing. It was because of Bernie Sanders' type policies in other countries that gave me the privilege. I worked for a high minimum wage at a fast food restaurant that paid for me to fly and stay in New York City to see Bernadette in A Little Night Music and Follies. It was a public healthcare system that meant I never had to worry if I was sick and it was an accessible higher education system with sensible repayment systems that gave me the opportunity to get an education so I could come here and annoy everyone with my words but also get a job that can pay me enough so yes I could go and see my lifelong dream to see a brand new Sondheim musical in New York City without having to think twice. The only thing I had to do was study and work hard because if I did the government policies had my back.
That is why I was so surprised when I started understanding the US political system that Hillary Clinton and the current Democratic Party look more like conservative politicians in other countries and Bernie Sanders was the only one I recognised that I felt would give others the opportunities that I myself got.
Ever since we saw the DNC try and destroy Bernie Sanders' campaign in 2016 (see: leaked emails) it feels like it's been a slow death since, and I don't recognise the current mainstream opinion in circles that the Democrats do not have a lot to learn or are a party for working people.
I think working people want to feel like they can have success regardless of their background if they are given the opportunity to fully realise their potential and work hard. I think the Democrats can do better in realising this mission.....
I'm also not suggesting that Trump is going to be any better for them, but I can imagine desperate people clinging to try any alternative for hope.
They all had their rightful place in history and have done some good things but it really does feel like the Democrats need to shake this legacy old guard between Biden, Clintons, Obamas etc. stop leading the party like this now it doesn't work.
Updated On: 11/9/24 at 02:24 PM
