• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    13 hours ago

    Not complete control. I’m absolutely certain that they would have preferred to keep Bernie out in 2016 and 2020. Besides being doomerism, that’s just not supported by the facts.

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      12 hours ago

      Bernie has been so useful to them, consistently, and they know he has no intention of disrupting the empire. He’s not a hawk, but he’s really good at keeping the war machine humming.

      Sometimes I wish Bernie had won just so that people like you could have seen exactly how bad it would have been and lost all hope, but this is Bernie’s role, to sheepdog all the strays that would normally wonder off into revolutionary politics to make sure they firmly stay in the blue-no-matter-who camp, just waiting for the day that they’re definitely gonna kick that football