This man could have been the president
Nah, tho. Young people didn’t vote in high enough numbers. Depressing. I voted Bernie.
Several million young prospective voters were prevented from voting by going to college in states that don’t allow out of state resident voting and not being able to vote in their home states on a Tuesday.
Add the fact that colleges are typically critically underserved when it comes to voting infrastructure, leading to a requirement to stand in line for the equivalent of a full-time job working day and it’s clear that it’s not young people being too apathetic.
It’s politicians ratfucking them almost as much as they ratfuck people of color and people of color have much better get out the vote infrastructure to counteract it than colleges do.
I voted for him, but I have a feeling his agenda would have gone nowhere thanks to the corporate ass-kissers in both parties in congress and the judiciary. Maybe we don’t deserve social democracy.
I voted for him, but I have a feeling his agenda would have gone nowhere thanks to the corporate ass-kissers in both parties in congress and the judiciary. Maybe we don’t deserve social democracy.
Not with that attitude we don’t.
Oh, centrists and trumpists are gonna identically hate this.
Sanders is a centrist
Centre doesn’t mean both sides or in between the right and far right
No.
He’s left of center. Not anywhere near as far left as neoliberals (who are center right to right wing) and their favourite billionaire owned media outlets pretend or democratic socialist like HE pretends, but still center-left to left wing.
He’s very close to a classic European style social democrat on most issues.
You’re saying he’s left because he’s left of “insert right wing person” but left/right isn’t competitive
He’s pro-gun, pro-trans, pro-car, anti-globalization
His union supports are left but health care isn’t left or right it’s bought or not bought
Edit: I’m glad you idiots can only say he’s left of the far right
That’s a whole lot of words to say that you don’t know what the left-right political spectrum is and how it works.
He’s not pro-gun. That vote against the Brady bill people keep trying to make the definition of his current gun policy was a mistake. He’s said verbatim that he was wrong back then and would vote differently now.
Being in favor of trans rights is more on the “liberty/authoritarianism” axis but yeah, that’s very much in the liberty direction.
As for pro-car, I have no idea what you mean. Judging by his overall theme of everyone cooperating to improve things, I find it EXTREMELY unlikely that he’s not very much in favor of public mass transit playing a much larger role where practically possible.
As for globalisation, that term means a million things depending on who you ask. It can mean global cooperation to meet shared goals such as climate change amelioration, which he’s clearly in favor of, but it can also mean unlimited power for transnational corporations, which he’s very much against.
While Israel has the right to go after Hamas, Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist government does not have the right to wage almost total warfare against the Palestinian people
A nuanced view? Is that allowed?
Not in my experience 😮💨
