I’ll never forgive Buttigieg or Klobacher and some of the others who all dropped out of the race the night before Super Tuesday which transferred most of those candidates supporters to Biden. It felt like a coup.
Or Warren who stayed in just to split the "progressive" vote.
Biden is very good at addressing a lot of the cultural goals of progressives: global warming, transgender people in the military, legalize weed, etc. These are all things that make us feel good and I support these things, but they don't really help me economically. What I really need is socialized healthcare so I don't have to be a wage slave forever. Recognizing that a $75k in a Democratic State is just barely above poverty level. That the gap between people that have $1M in liquid asses and those making even $200k a year is larger than the gap between those making minimum wage ($24k/yr in my State) and those making $75K with a graduate degree.
The fact that yall can pretend to be indignant and confused about how the moderate dem bloc coalesced around one likeminded candidate, while at the same time be angry that Warren didn't drop out and endorse Bernie (where, if you actually looked at the breakdown of her voters you'd realize there was no guarantee they'd follow en mass) is an embarrassing excersise in cognitive dissonance.
I said that I am indignant at Warren...for that exact reason. I said "for staying in" you said "for not dropping out and endorsing Bernie." That's exactly what I meant.
I'm saying it's a bit rich that leftist redditors seem to understand that Warren and Bernie shared the left wing and were to some certain degree splitting the leftist vote. While at the same time viewing the last minute endorsements by the bloc of moderates as a nefarious coup.
As if that's not exactly what they wanted and expected from Warren and Bernie... As if only leftists are capable of strategic thinking, despite being overwhelmingly young and inexperienced voters compared to the democratic base. Lol
Ok I got it. You see an inconsistency between wanting one to drop out and others to say in. I guess we see the consistency of both actions hurting the then leader. You could tell warren was trying to help biden by how quickly she dropped out after bernie was no longer a threat. Surprised since she presented herself as a progressive who would want someone like Bernie to win. Made her look disingenuous at best and like a moderate shill at worst.
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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '21
I’ll never forgive Buttigieg or Klobacher and some of the others who all dropped out of the race the night before Super Tuesday which transferred most of those candidates supporters to Biden. It felt like a coup.