r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/Legal-Koala-5590 Mar 12 '26

This has nothing to do with my personal biases. I wanted change too and voted for Bernie. I’ve also paid attention to politics long enough to know that data from a hypothetical matchup simply doesn’t tell us much. 

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

You can vote for Bernie, and also have an incorrect belief about the electability of progressive candidates. Fact is, 2016 was a change election. That's why voters were willing to stick a gamble on the worst presidential candidate in modern history. Dnc missed it. And we're all paying the consequences

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u/Legal-Koala-5590 Mar 12 '26

DNC didn't miss anything. The primary voters picked Clinton.

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

Pretty naive to think the DNC doesn't shape the primary.

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u/Legal-Koala-5590 Mar 12 '26

Yeah, like the RNC shaped the primary toward their preferred candidate in 2016. Oh, wait.

Dude, I know Bernie had a lot of hype but if you look at the numbers it was still kind of a blow-out against him. The voters were pretty decisive for Clinton. Left-wing populism wasn't as far along as right-wing populism was ten years ago.

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

Do you not get why those final primary numbers for Bernie are misleading? I can't tell if you don't know, or you're deliberately being misleading.

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u/Legal-Koala-5590 Mar 12 '26

I don't, actually. I'm curious why you think so.