• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I’ve felt that Bernie should be president since 2015, but he never stood a chance in the US. You have a 0% chance of being elected president in this country once the label of “socialist” has been applied to you.

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      12 hours ago

      You say that but articles like this don’t fit that narrative. There are Republican voters who like Bernie and they have been showing up to his rallies for years. I know several Trump voters who have said they would have voted for Sanders if they got the chance. The idea that progressives don’t appeal to conservatives is neoliberal propaganda. Progressives hit on alot of the same problems as conservative politicians they just have different solutions (and a lot less bullshit). Neoliberalism just pretends that the status quo is fine. Despite the name conservatives are largely unhappy with the status quo. That’s how we got Trump.

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        11 hours ago

        Brother, who the hell says they’re a fan of Sanders and then willingly votes for Trump other than chaos agents or racist who want to bury social issues?

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          11 hours ago

          More than you think. Trump is a fascist piece of shit but he’s not wrong when he says the system is rigged and drastic change is needed. Replace Trump’s Nazi rhetoric and egoism with workable ideas and genuine empathy and in simplistic terms you have Sanders.

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            8 hours ago

            Yeah, a not-insignificant portion of Trump’s voters are people who have been shafted by the system and are desperate for change, any change. Two out of three times, Trump was the candidate offering change. That he’s destroying stuff is, to them, secondary at best because they think their lives can’t get much worse anyway.

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        11 hours ago

        There are Republican voters who like Bernie and they have been showing up to his rallies for years.

        Then Bernie should have run for the Republican nomination. He tried running for the Democrat nomination twice, and he lost twice.

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      5 hours ago

      True. People need to learn what socialist actually means. Much of Europe is socialist.