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Democrats Shocked By Success Of Left-Wing Candidate Offering Left-Wing Policies To Left-Wing Voters
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Blue MAGA is such a stupid fucking term. Anyone who uses it should likely be disregarded.
If Blue MAGA doesn't want to be referred to as such they can change their behavior any time.
It is however extraordinarily fitting:
And that one is from the early days of the use of the term.
tl;dr your image is as bullshit as anyone who says "Blue MAGA". It's a thing you and others are trying to invent. Fuck off with your both sides bullshit.
In this essay, I will discuss why most of the points in that image are bullshit.
First line is tenuous at best. There wasn't outright cheating like ballot stuffing, but there was an absolute brick on the scales. The media calling all the superdelegates before anyone actually voted was bullshit. Nuance is a thing.
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone saying Bernie is a DINO.
Nobody on the left says "fuck democracy". And if they do, they're not neolibs.
Absolutely nobody says only corporate votes should count.
In the end, if you don't ally with most Democrats, our country is doomed. You can turn them more progressive, especially in primaries. But if you abandon the Dems, you might as well be one of those right wing podcaster being paid by Russia.
I get that some people want to threaten them. But threaten them from the left, not from the fucking stupid.
Your "most Democrats" just handed the country to fascists because rather than be critical and demand better than a pants shitting, geriatric, defender of genocide, they decided any blue would do.
And what we just showed you: Your approach to politics doesn't work and ours does. You want to win? Follow us. Stop pretending that forcing through shitty candidates does any other than hand governance to Republicans.
"Join us", like I wasn't out there knocking on doors for Bernie.
So what happened to you? Why have you become just another defender of the establishment that has betrayed Bernie, instead?
Because, like Bernie advises, I want to win instead of lose.
Some level of cooperation with the Democratic party is necessary for that. Doesn't mean we have to swallow everything hook, like, and sinker. But we do need most of them as allies against fascism.
I don't have to like everything Chuck Schumer does to prefer him to a Republican. And I wish we still had Manchin, because West Virginia didn't get any better with him gone.