Legit, it was common to label Bernie an egomaniac in it entirely for his own gain. It was fucking nuts. Expressed even the slightest doubt about Hillary and you got jumped by a whole bunch of people. Including mods iirc.
Yup. From his announcement right up until January people were saying hes done and he should drop out and support Warren.
Are there not calls for Warren to drop out or something? I follow a lot of Warren supporters who have said she should. I don't follow many Bernie bros, but I assume they're doing the same (i.e. your post).
Agreed. If you actually want a Democrat to beat Trump, you should to be calling for this. Any candidate that wins via a brokered convention is going into the general in a hugely compromised position. Regardless of who you think deserves the nom more and who you think is being a hypocrite, you NEED to acknowledge the risks here.
Yeah I can agree with that. The pressure will be immense for those that just aren't getting enough votes to close the gap.
100% this. Y2Kev and his Hillary army ran any dissenter out of town as a Nazi sexist Trump fan.
I mean, obviously. But that's not saying much.
Yeah, this. We shouldn't expect a candidate to get set in stone the day they announce and never improve, especially because this is a time when they are going to be traveling around the country, talking to people they might normally hear from, etc.
Absolutely. I'm very concerned about this. He's a Republican at heart who desperately doesn't want Sanders or Warren to win. And he has all the money in the fucking world to blow on doing that to sink the Dem nominee.
I'm still upset Yang dropped out because I wanted him to do this same thing. UBI bills are starting to become actual discussed things in some states because he gave it a serious platform. Yang talked a ton about being "neither left nor right", but nothing would've pulled the overton window to the left faster than making UBI seem like a legitimate policy. Plus it would've helped his chances in future elections if he were to run again.
I'm guessing that's where'd she drop out. Same with Klob in MN.
100% this. If Warren were dominating like this so far, and Sanders was cooked, it would be the right thing to do as well. To me Warren would be 1000% preferential to Bloomberg or Buttigieg and 500% to Biden or Klob.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/bloomberg-brokered-convention-strategy-116407
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/25/bernie-sanders-democrats-brokered-convention
Were repeating the same arguments over and over again. Sanders doesn't have to cut any deal if he has the majority of the delegates and votes. If the Dems wanna screw around and not give it to himin a year vs Trump then they revealed themselves for who they really are anyway, but at the end of the day they have far more to lose than Bernie does.
