Why do I look askance at the Bernie left? Because it thinks that economics trumps all, and if the Democrats had an economic plan which appealed to #MAGA, all would be good. That's a mug's game. MAGA doesn't care about economics. They care about blood and soil. They care about sticking it to the "Other". The Bernie left is living in cloud cuckoo land. And its denigration of identity politics is a tell.
@Shelter And I had someone on here saying that Bernie was cheated in 2016. Fuck them.
Oh good lord.
@Shelter On Twitter I would have blasted them. Here I just blocked.
@LiberalLibrarian Almost 20 years after Frank's book they still don't have a clue why rural so-called conservatives vote against their own interests.
@walterbays It's also why Marxism is bullshit. It thinks that all of human interactions can be condensed to economics. The almost-200-years since the Communist Manifesto should have put paid to that fallacy.
I think that's a pretty thin synopsis of the Bernie left, nearly a straw man. Pretty sure none would argue it would convince the MAGA, and they don't matter. I won't argue it. We all did that a long time ago, and it did us no good.
Bernie moved on to work with Biden and helped create the Bills that have moved the country forward - now known as Bidenomics. Cool.
You're maybe thinking of the total leftists that want nothing to do with Dems and duopoly? Anyway lets move on.
@LiberalLibrarian Authoritarian foreign governments who want to sow disunity infiltrate or partner with leftist politicians like Bernie and try to influence them destructive ways. People who _sound_ like allies, but what they actually _do_ is sabotage and the disrespect of minority identity is a tell .
I don't think it's an accident that leadership in Bernies campaign were involved with Manifort, or others ended up at RT. What I don't know is who are corrupt vs. well meaning but misguided.
@LiberalLibrarian you can't trust "tankie" leftists or eco-terrorists or class-not-race types because half are getting paid by Russia and the other half are idiots
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It's exhausting.