• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    It’s extremely frustrating to see this guy dropping one truth bomb after another just to have nobody listen to him. I wish Sanders was younger.

    Edit: It’s really sad, now that I think of it. Here is a man who has devoted his entire life to the betterment of his country. And here he still is, in his eighties, continuing to fight to prevent the rights and liberties that he in his twenties fought to create from being undone. If there was any justice in this world, he should have just now wrapped up his term as President of the United States and be enjoying the few years he has left on this earth in peace after having passed the torch to the next generation of Democratic leaders. Bernie Sanders, a true patriot and devoted warrior for the working class to the very end.

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          24 hours ago

          I’ve started doubting her since she voted to make a railroad strike illegal, which essentially pulls the teeth from their union. Pro-worker indeed.

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            I feel like she’s more of a pragmatist while Sanders is firm and staunch in his ideology. AOC will bend the knee to the Party when she realises she needs to in order to get what she wants, but only just enough so that they don’t hate her guts. Sanders had the luxury of being able to raise the middle finger to the Party because they knew they had to suffer him anyway owing to his huge popularity among the left. Sander’s popularity allows him to remain ideologically pure. AOC doesn’t have the power.

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              Sanders has the donors and support from 50+ years of service.

              AOC needed to do something to gain party support while she builds her national support network.

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              16 hours ago

              What’s it like believing that this time you’ll kick that football for the hundredth time?

              Related question: how many times does someone have to tell you who they are before you believe them?

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      22 hours ago

      It is sad, but imagine if he wasn’t involved in our democracy at all. I suspect things would be even worse.