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[–]BobOki 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I find it funny they think their voting in the primaries matters. The right think corporate stooge is already picked for this election, your primary votes are quite meaningless and there is crazy fraud going on too boot. Primaries are run by the party, they are not policed like the actual election, they can do pretty much anything they want. Last election, in case you forgot, started with Bernie at a HUGE lead... then suddenly everything changed, and YOUR OWN PARTY caught themselves engaged in voter fraud, and to save face they had to boot MULTIPLE people in MULTIPLE states for it. The SECOND I saw the current VP running I said: "She will lose horribly then she will be chosen as the VP for whoever they decided would bend the fuck over for the corps... probably Biden." wow.. it was not that hard.

[–]Hematomato 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Bernie's never been a fraction as popular as he appears.

Something that political types can't seem to wrap their heads around is that an enthusiastic vote counts for exactly the same as an unenthusiastic vote.

That was one of their main arguments in favor of 2020 election fraud - "Biden couldn't have won because no one is enthusiastic for him!"

And it's one of their main arguments that Bernie got cheated - "He was the only one with all the enthusiasm!"

The thing is, to moderates, Bernie seems crazy. Four years of free college is just astonishingly shitty economic policy, no matter how you slice it. Breaking up the banks is really uncomfortable for any 55-year-old who has their money in the banks.

So, unenthusiastically, they cast their votes for more moderate candidates, and the Bernie Bros go: "What what WHAT?!!"

[–]monkeymagic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

not that i care for the guy, but bernie was white hot in my area the first time he ran. we’re talking peak hulkamania level popularity. signs on every lawn. saying he was never really all that popular is pretty insane.

[–]BobOki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Bernie was white hot even in my red state. There were MULTIPLE polls done by both trash websites (including right leaning) that had Bernie not just in a lead, but a landslide lead. When the primaries started Bernie was also in a landslide lead... then if you remember, there was "issues", the poll counters stopped for a bit, and then when it was "fixed" Bernie was instead of ahead 35%, behind now... and after that he magically got nearly no votes. After that, the "crazy" coincidence happened, where Biden, who had shit all votes, suddenly started to catapult forward, Biden, who was not even on the radar of ANYONE.