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What happened with Bernie Sanders in the primaries? I thought he saw it through to the end and just plain lost to Biden. Not that that fact alone didn't concern

by macksd 4y ago

What happened with Bernie Sanders in the primaries? I thought he saw it through to the end and just plain lost to Biden. Not that that fact alone didn't concern me. But I think it's a far more damning image to the party that Tulsi Gabbard qualified for the debates under the rules at the time, and then was excluded because they changed the rules. You can't play the race or gender card every time your person isn't winning, and then go out of your way to very specifically exclude the only candidate left who isn't white and isn't male. You can't really make a principled argument against the way the electoral college currently works by ignoring non-mainland delegates. You can't claim every vote should count. You can't claim the two party system is the reason you can't incorporate new, non-adversarial ideas.

uoaei 4y ago
I tried to reply to this earlier but was put on time-out by the mods for replying to other comments. Literally has never happened to me before, until today, when I started challenging Dem establishment lines. There's way too much to say in one comment, but just to summarize: The "establishment" organized a quite effective takedown just prior to Super Tuesday. It was in retrospect a classic rug-pull: flood the field with candidates who provide each segment of identitarians a race-horse they can get behind; dilute the rhetoric and box out the candidates labelled "extreme" while simultaneously ripping off and diluting their core policies; pull all candidates except one, have all the other candidates endorse them, and bet (correctly) on the assumption that people don't have the time or inclination to look at all beyond the news headlines to inform their vote. I am happy to dive much deeper into this if you are interested. There are many angles to investigate, but I would say the mainstream news media outlets were the most crucial factor, being used as effective tools of consent-manufacturing in many of the ways Chomsky describes.

by macksd 4y ago

uoaei 4y ago

I tried to reply to this earlier but was put on time-out by the mods for replying to other comments. Literally has never happened to me before, until today, when I started challenging Dem establishment lines. There's way too much to say in one comment, but just to summarize: The "establishment" organized a quite effective takedown just prior to Super Tuesday. It was in retrospect a classic rug-pull: flood the field with candidates who provide each segment of identitarians a race-horse they can get behind; dilute the rhetoric and box out the candidates labelled "extreme" while simultaneously ripping off and diluting their core policies; pull all candidates except one, have all the other candidates endorse them, and bet (correctly) on the assumption that people don't have the time or inclination to look at all beyond the news headlines to inform their vote. I am happy to dive much deeper into this if you are interested. There are many angles to investigate, but I would say the mainstream news media outlets were the most crucial factor, being used as effective tools of consent-manufacturing in many of the ways Chomsky describes.