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Cooper Lund@cooperlund.bsky.social |
It's just such a bummer. The 2016 Bernie campaign gave the Left electoral legitimacy for the first time in my lifetime and the leadership of these orgs seem to be content to piss that away and go back to being cranks. Such a lost opportunity.
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waxmonkey
@waxmonkey.bsky.social
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with legitimacy comes value to grifters and they flocked
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Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board
@sidewalkslam.bsky.social
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I've been working for 30 years on a farther left agenda within the dem structure and I just want to take some of these younger, very passionate people, and show them how much farther we've come from the era where a full 70% of dems were basically just republicans
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James Felix Black
@tft.io
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It's a huge miss because much of the Left platform would be broadly electorally popular!
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Zach
@thesecretbarn.bsky.social
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It's almost like everyone who was offended by the Bernie Bros was right
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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These leaders don't *want* electoral legitimacy. They want to be cranks.
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Shawn Brick
@sbrick.bsky.social
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💯 The Tea Party took their moment to create actual power. The Bernie left squandered it.
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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you can sometimes get leftists to stop yelling at each other to yell against something but it’s really pretty difficult to get leftists to converge on a constructive plan in detail
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