• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I’ve felt that Bernie should be president since 2015, but he never stood a chance in the US. You have a 0% chance of being elected president in this country once the label of “socialist” has been applied to you.

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      6 days ago

      You say that but articles like this don’t fit that narrative. There are Republican voters who like Bernie and they have been showing up to his rallies for years. I know several Trump voters who have said they would have voted for Sanders if they got the chance. The idea that progressives don’t appeal to conservatives is neoliberal propaganda. Progressives hit on alot of the same problems as conservative politicians they just have different solutions (and a lot less bullshit). Neoliberalism just pretends that the status quo is fine. Despite the name conservatives are largely unhappy with the status quo. That’s how we got Trump.

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        6 days ago

        There are Republican voters who like Bernie and they have been showing up to his rallies for years.

        Then Bernie should have run for the Republican nomination. He tried running for the Democrat nomination twice, and he lost twice.