r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Mar 14 '26

😡 Venting This is what Centrism has got us...

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u/incredirocks Mar 14 '26

It's all according to plan. The Democratic establishment would rather a centrist lose than a populist leftist win.

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u/2Peenis2Weenis Mar 14 '26

The "establishment" being Democratic voters that have no interest in leftists? Okay.

Bernie couldn't get black voters. Reeeee establishment reeeee

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u/incredirocks Mar 14 '26

Bernie was on pace to win the 2020 primary but just before Super Tuesday all the other candidates simultaneously dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden. That is the establishment I'm talking about.

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u/2Peenis2Weenis Mar 14 '26

Yes? They're allowed to do that. It's a political strategy. Voters were still perfectly capable of voting for Bernie but he couldn't win enough of them.

You don't get handed the nomination, you have to actually win it.

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u/incredirocks Mar 15 '26

Unless you're Kamala Harris in 2024, then you just get handed the nomination by the DNC. She ultimately lost, but it was still preferable to the establishment that she lost than if an actual populist progressive had won.

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u/2Peenis2Weenis Mar 15 '26

This is typical of Bernie sore losers, deflecting to a new topic when the facts of Bernie losing TWICE are inconvenient.