Bear with me for a second. Everyone is supposed to be ecstatic about the inauguration. But on all social media the response of even centrists was to relate to the Bernie meme. The guy is a soc dem at best but let’s be real here: the fact that there is so much grass roots support for him when even his milquetoast policies are roundly attacked on the major networks tells us something about how people are feeling when they’re being told to celebrate the best day ever. People are in despair. They can’t join in on the celebrations because they’re in a pandemic. It’s insane. And every centrist in the country knows it.
:biden: p-pls go to my inauguration
:yes: man my hands are cold
Yeah. It says he is popular on Twitter.
In the summer, at the height of the BLM uprising when US flags were burning, DC was on fire, twitter felt like a fucking socialist website with so many leftists upvoted into the hundreds of thousands.
We’re the only ones with a culture of telling plausible stories about crises and ruptures. So when SHTF, we come out on top. The reactionary media is stuck in it’s own bubble, while liberal media must pretend that BLM is the normal course of democracy.
We’re the only ones able to reach out to the mainstream and say “this is an uprising. Here’s how to help.”
They want to recreate the Trump magic and have an army of fiercely loyal morons . What they don’t understand is that Trump has that magic because he’s TRUMP. Basically no one in the Democratic Party has that because people who “have that” don’t become career politicians!
They had Obama and all they have now is his shitty clone gone wrong Pete Buttigieg.
AOC “has that.” They know it. It’s why they’re trying to keep her at arms length and embrace her at the same time.
I’m not sure if they were pissed off. There was that one tweet in the_dunk_tank about how he hated women because of his mittens, but as a chapo commenter accurately noted that didn’t actually get any traction and my lib friends seemed to just be loving the Bernie photoshopped into random scenes from pop culture meme. I didn’t read it as broadly negative.
Bernie needs to go ape shit and endorse somebody even further left than he is in the next presidential cycle if he wants to have a major and lasting impact on the left in this country
