• norbert@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Imagine if Bernie had broken with the party. There’s a good chance he could’ve attracted a lot of otherwise disillusioned people and formed a real, viable third party candidate.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah but then enlightened centrists would have blamed him for Clinton’s loss, and used it to push the party further right.

      Oh wait, they did that anyway.

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      9 months ago

      Regretfully, our system is designed against us, and has been further corrupted over the years. So, no, there wouldn’t have been any positive outcome from that type of action.