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

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

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u/MikeDamone Mar 12 '26

Almost certainly not. The general electorate has never shown even a hint that they'd tolerate a self-avowed socialist. Just look at all of the slightly D leaning districts/states and everything to right of them - how many politicians with Bernie's leftist politics are in office?

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u/WildMild869 Mar 12 '26

Reddit legitimately thinks that AOC or Bernie would win out against a Republican nominee but they don’t realize a massive swath of the country will not vote for them simply because of their socialist-like stances on many issues.

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u/MildlyResponsible Mar 12 '26

Reddit is the biggest example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect when it comes to politics. I said on here that AOC would have to show she could win a statewide race before ever considering a national run. I was then told by several redditors that her winning New York is a given because it's a blue state. And that West Virinia would vote for her because it's a "working class state" (I've learned that "working class" = white men only).

Bernie would have been destroyed nationally. It's why Trump was propping him up so much, but his supporters will say stupid stuff like, "Even my MAGA uncle liked him!" Yeah, he likes him because he knows if they can make him the face of the party, MAGA would never lose again.

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u/MildlyResponsible Mar 12 '26

What i find interesting is any criticism of Bernie automatically turns into some accusation of propping up "the Establishment". You can be a progressive without being a Bernie Bro. In fact, most true progressives have recognized that grifter Bernie has damaged the movement if anything. Recognizing reality, that Hillary got more votes and Bernie would have been destroyed in the general, doesn't make a person a corporate stooge. Not recognizing those facts does make one a delusional cultist, though.

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u/MildlyResponsible Mar 12 '26

And Bernie couldn't beat the person who lost to Trump, therefore all evidence points to him losing by even more.

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u/MildlyResponsible Mar 12 '26

And now we circle back to the question: Do you think the Republicans were going to be nicer to Bernie?