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Tulsi was the only one willing to call out the neoliberal ghouls (Kamala, Buttigieg) during the primary while Bernie did nothing to challenge them!
Other than, you know, running a campaign that vastly outperformed both of them. And running on policies they refuse to back is challenging them, even if it’s not doing some WWE politics own on them at a debate.
Bernie’s campaign was so poorly run that even a mild scandal manufactured by the Warren team managed to have it shook.
Warren’s snake moment happened a week or two before Iowa. It “shook” the Bernie campaign so hard it went out and won 3 or 4 states in a row.
The establishment was equally inept and only succeeded in coming together and push him out because of how poor his campaign was run.
Yeah, a popular two-term president working behind the scenes get every centrist candidate (but not Warren) to drop out and immediately endorse Biden screams “inept.”
Other than, you know, running a campaign that vastly outperformed both of them
Bernie stayed silent about Assange persecution and paid some lip service to Russiagate hysteria
Ralph Nader didn’t have to and he’s the most successful american politician in terms of policy he passed and the amount of people he help through lawmaking. EPA, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, seatbelts. Believe in electoralism, get dunked. lenin.jpg
When it comes to playing the game (the primary) that the establishment sets, it crumbles pretty much straight away from mainstream media blackout and people buying into the narrative that the establishment fed them.
Not at all – they tried this with Bernie and it wasn’t enough. It took the type of backroom dealing that’s not always possible to do him in.
If they were truly competent, someone like Bernie wouldn’t have stood a chance
Competency isn’t binary. They weren’t competent enough to strangle Bernie in his crib, but they were competent enough to circle the wagons at the last minute. They can’t always do this – see the 2016 Republican primary, where the party didn’t get its shit together fast enough to stop an outsider who they all openly despised.
No one’s saying you can’t criticize Bernie’s campaign. It’s just that criticism has to be grounded in reality to be worth anything. For example, criticizing the campaign over the Warren attack is flat-out laughable because it so obviously had no effect (Bernie immediately proceeded to have one of the best starts in primary history).
the very minimum that Bernie needed to do to distinguish himself from the rest of the candidates
He very clearly distinguished himself from the rest of the candidates – what are you even talking about here?
