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    There’s a lot of Republican/Trump voters that just want politicians who at least sound like they want to represent them and “fix the government.” Do that and they’ll vote for you.

    Democrats since Obama have failed to convincingly do that simple thing.

    Meanwhile, Republicans lie that they’ll help them and get elected. They inevitably don’t help them and blame liberals/immigrants/trans etc.

    If enough Democrats would follow Bernie’s lead, they would win, handily.

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      Exactly and frankly it is time to primary the corporate Democrats who do nothing, the corporations showed us they are actually for what trump does. We need more people like Bernie, like AOC, like Warren, people that actually want things to improve for average people.

      Also we need more younger people who would fight https://runforsomething.net/

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        Fuck Warren. She had her chance to help Sanders on two separate occasions and she chose not to. She’s just better at paying lip service than the other Democrats.

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        In red districts, primary the Republicans for twice the effectiveness. Let’s be real the GOP is where the power is anyway. Kick the corporations out of the GOP and make them deal with being represented by weak democrats for a change.

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      The bigger problem is the latter of your comment. Republicans have no issues with lying about everything, and promising undeliverable things. It’s unconscionable, but they know these people never leave their lesson and continue voting against their own interests as long as they can concoct this fascist “US v Them” narrative.

      Democrats have been there out spouting the truth of the situation, but that’s not enough. They need demonstrable proof to illustrate their points, and this is that. If there isn’t a massive shift in voters because of this fucking mess, nothing is going to do it. Sanders and AOC are on the right track, and we need more of that. Go to where they are and talk to them. Illustrate the points and what is going to happen if they don’t switch their votes.

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        Exactly. In order to promise to “fix the government” you need to lie to them and claim the government is broken, first. That’s where liars have a leg up.

        A lot of people here are developers or tech adjacent so I’ll offer this strained analogy: this “the government is broken” narrative is tantamount to an intern hot off their Learning NodeJS course coming in and telling everyone that their complex production systems are trash and need to be completely rebuilt. That intern doesn’t have any of the context, experience, or knowledge to make that determination and often creates conflicts within the team instead of just looking forward to the next iteration for improvement. Meanwhile, the professionals have to keep cleaning up their mess.

        Elon Musk is this intern. Boebert, MTG, Tuberville, etc, are this intern. The GOP has been promoting and encouraging these interns and has since Reagan.

        Can the government be improved? Absolutely. Should the interns be doing it? No.

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          Exactly. In order to promise to “fix the government” you need to lie to them and claim the government is broken, first. That’s where liars have a leg up.

          Well, there are some broken parts of the government thst do need fixing. The courts don’t have a way to enforce rulings. Laws that limit executive overreach don’t have an enforcement mechanism. Too much power is concentrated in the oval office.

          It is broken, but not because of spending or any of the stuff Republicans claim to be broken. It is broken because it allows for their shenanigans.

          Dems could have run on fixing the actual flaws in the system that are allowing this coup, but they chose to appeal to moderates instead. In the future they could run on fixing the flaws, but would need to follow through when they have the ability.

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        Democrats have been there out spouting the truth of the situation, but that’s not enough.

        What truth? Anti-oligarchy rhetoric in the Democratic party outside the narrow progressive bloc is basically a rounding error, and “everything is fiiiine” is definitely not the truth. Republicans are lying pieces of shit, sure, but the DNC habitually lies too and their lies fucking suck to boot.

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      I suspect amongst other things, this is probably a major reason Bernie is doing this tour—to demonstrate how a sane and worker-forward progressive populist message brings in a strong coalition of voters, even in states that the democrats write off as deplorable. I’m skeptical that it will change their minds, but it’s once again a reminder that continuing to shill a neo-liberal status quo message is a losing game.

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      I feel like AOC as president, and Bernie as VP would be so transformative… But Bernie isn’t getting any younger. Ideally, he’d have won instead of Hillary years ago…

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      If enough Democrats would follow Bernie’s lead, they would win, handily.

      “Best we can do is blackball Bernie while also plagiarizing his platform.”

      -DNC