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This is what makes me lose hope in democracy.
Bernie had no chance of winning a general election when he couldn’t even win a primary that’s why Trump wanted to run against him all three times and now there’s people comparing that with ICE occupying a city and murdering American citizens.
He did not lose the primary by democratic means, but by Democratic means. His primary performance cannot be used to gauge his performance in the general.
However, I agree that there's no point complaining about the corporate Democrats using their power to win. The thing for people who believed in Bernie to do is to get power, and use it to defeat the corporate Democrats.
You have it ass-backwards.
Losing faith in democracy would be acknowledging that the amount of huge money and influence took power out of voters hands, choosing Hilary for them. You're arguing that people shouldn't vote for the candidate they support because of a system inherently lacking in actual democratic power. You're supporting something that isn't inherently democratic.
And you’re calling the voting system as it stands undemocratic.
That is correct. Did you not comprehend what I said?
If what I said was correct it would seem that I did.
Wow. You seriously can't even comprehend my point.
Read to your kids, folks.
You're right that he would have lost if he somehow won the primary. Both the Democrats and Republicans would oppose him, which is impossible to endure, unless Bernie could enact a Trump-style takeover. And the superdelegates thing among others makes that rather unlikely.
So instead we get good cop bad cop in our elections, and a corporate puppet becomes President no matter what. Which is why I like to vote third party. Giving a vote that makes me an enemy of the entire country is too much fun to pass up.
Might as well not vote for the value that vote brings but you do you.
I feel quite excellent over the fact that my chosen candidate is not a corporate puppet.
But you have to weight the fact that they’ll never win either.
Like I said you do you.
The DNC literally admitted to braking it own rules and cheating for Hillary in court.
Your bullshit here that Bernie couldn't win the primary so he wouldn't win the general is post-hic rationalization of the DNC being an undemocratic institution and justifying their theft of the party.
They are quite appreciative of my vote. For them, every vote really does count.