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Link so y’all don’t call me a lib again.
They also like V*ush. Think “eat the rich” is a metaphor for taxation. And say Tankies turned them from Anarcho-Communist to a Neoliberal. Think the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact meant the Soviet Union was fascist. Like, okay, how fucking twisted do your priorities have to be that you dunk on a state that hasn’t existed for 30 fucking years instead of, you know, your own state that is currently involved in who know how many fascist conspiracies. And that’s it. I’m not going any deeper into their timeline. I’m too tired.
Leftists did vote as a bloc in 2020, they just didn’t vote the way you wanted in the general.
You said leftists did not exert any voice as a voting bloc in 2020. They did – both during the primary and the general – they just didn’t vote the way you personally would have had them vote in the latter. That’s not the absence of a leftist voting bloc; that’s you disagreeing with the voting strategy of that bloc.
As for Bernie serving as a sheepdog, “sheepdog” implies there was somewhere else to go. But in a two-party system there isn’t anywhere else to go. There was no viable third-party candidate as-is, Bernie wouldn’t have been viable had he ran as an independent, and it’s reasonable to think (note that this does not mean that you have to agree with it) that him running as an independent would have been worse for the left than him endorsing Biden. He got dealt a shit hand in the primary, and when you get dealt a shit hand the results aren’t going to look great even if you play it the best you can.
