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In reply to the discussion: Bernie is really fucking old. He can't leave the door open forever. [View all]
W_HAMILTON
(8,990 posts)43. Sanders has also accomplished so very little in his decades-long legislative career.
It worries me that the younger generation sees him as someone they should model themselves after.
If the younger generation decides to choose purity over progress, our country as we know it is over -- and, hell, the die might have already been cast.
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Bernie is really fucking old. He can't leave the door open forever. [View all]
SalamanderSleeps
Yesterday
OP
Yes, but also rich and famous and able to get away with stunts we would never pull.
CTyankee
Yesterday
#11
And that just proves the point of the need to have at least statewide political experience. n/t
valleyrogue
Yesterday
#15
Nope. That's wishful thinking and not something that would work in the real world.
Oopsie Daisy
Yesterday
#2
Not populist. FDR was a top 1% elite establishment wealthy capitalist, not a populist or democratic socialist.
betsuni
6 hrs ago
#42
History shows that this message is definitely not the way to win national elections.
Oopsie Daisy
16 hrs ago
#35
This is true, Obama is the only president elected so far with a non European last name
fujiyamasan
21 hrs ago
#19
Sorry, both need to win a state wide race, the US Senate, serve there like Pres. O did before...
brush
Yesterday
#7
I took it to mean that they've been lurking since day one and just joined in 2022.
Xavier Breath
4 hrs ago
#46
By that I guess you mean that women, and women of color, and homosexuals
Jack Valentino
20 hrs ago
#20
The sad truth is that there is a 0 track record of electing a woman to the presidency
elocs
19 hrs ago
#25
I've voted for Democrats exclusively for over 50 years now. Your stance is simply stupid,
elocs
14 hrs ago
#38
No chance that will result in a win. I like Mark Cuban somehow dealt into the ticket.
Melon
19 hrs ago
#24
So, all the people that read the site but have not joined are not considered 'people' or something?
OldBaldy1701E
16 hrs ago
#34
Sanders has also accomplished so very little in his decades-long legislative career.
W_HAMILTON
6 hrs ago
#43
That ticket would work wonderfully, if you want to give the fascists a landslide victory.
BlueTsunami2018
4 hrs ago
#45
That ticket would not work in 2028 and it is the DemocraTIC Party, not the Democrat Party.
LoisB
3 hrs ago
#51
***IF*** They're going after new voters with new ideas yes .. but if they're going after the white male vote...
uponit7771
2 hrs ago
#52
Yeah Bernie is old, but he isn't running, as far as I can tell. AS FOR AOC,
DJ Synikus Makisimus
2 hrs ago
#55