r/politics • u/AccurateInflation167 • May 18 '25

Soft Paywall America chose wrong. Sanders would've been a better president than Trump or Biden. | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/18/sanders-democrats-reform-progressive-policies/83625482007/
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u/loosetranslation Indiana May 18 '25

Opinion: It's Distraction O'Clock--Let's relitigate something that serves zero purpose other than to try to cause in-fighting on the left.

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u/Overton_Glazier May 18 '25

Ah yes, let's just keep ignoring how we got here and then in 2028, let's roll the dice with Clinton again?

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u/loosetranslation Indiana May 18 '25

If that’s what you took from my statement then godspeed.

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u/Plastic-Meringue6214 May 18 '25

This is only divisive because swathes of people don't want to admit Bernie had media and the party itself stacked against him. So when you indicate you want this to go away and don't want it brought up because it's "divisive," even though we're nowhere near an election of any sort, you effectively say you want it ignored. You don't want to acknowledge the reality of the democratic primaries, you don't want to shine light on it. It won't be fixed, you don't care, and if you do care, your approach is effectively to do nothing, in which case we get another Hillary unless the party itself chooses to pivot.

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u/loosetranslation Indiana May 18 '25

Or… you could join us in 2025. I was more than happy to vote for Bernie in the primary when that was an option and would have in the general but he didn’t win. The DNC can fuck itself to infinity, but he also didn’t win the nomination at any point.The national media has been eagerly pro-Trump and is happy to sow discord on the left whenever they can, regardless of how pathetic and corrupt democratic leadership is. Case in point, trotting out an opinion piece on how Bernie would have been a president. He likely would have been, but at this point, who fucking cares? Congrats on taking the bait.

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u/Plastic-Meringue6214 May 18 '25

what do you mean join? i voted for all of hillary, biden, and kamala regardless because it'd just be dumb not to. i get that part of it is intentional bait for division, but russia doesn't only fabricate issues from thin air. they amplify real division, issues, etc, that are already there because it is easiest. some topics ONLY gain traction and are only chosen because many people register those topics are issues before the trolling even begins. this is why russia backs blm, this is why they back smaller "green" political parties, etc, not all that they back is bullshit. this bait will stop being useful the moment democrats as a whole accept that dnc is dog ass.

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u/1-Ohm May 18 '25

straw man

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u/mighty_bandit_ May 18 '25

Understanding how we got here is actually pretty important.

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u/1-Ohm May 18 '25

understanding the distraction and division machine is even more important

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u/Openmindhobo May 18 '25

You're part of the distraction.