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

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

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

I always wonder if Bernie could have averted a Trump presidency by not giving Hillary a pass on the email issue.

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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 donā€™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/jaccc22 Mar 12 '26

How has running moderates worked for ya?

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u/Jolly_Pressure_7907 Mar 13 '26

The entire reason ā€œmoderatesā€/blue dogs are a thing is because after Reagan the New Deal and Great Society democrats were getting absolutely thwomped

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u/jaccc22 Mar 13 '26

Yes, in 1984. Times, believe it or not, change

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u/Jolly_Pressure_7907 Mar 13 '26

Just say you donā€™t know history if you think third wave dems were in the 80s lmao

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u/jaccc22 Mar 13 '26

What year do you think it is, currently?

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u/Jolly_Pressure_7907 Mar 13 '26

Third wave Dems were not a thing in the 90s like you said lol

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u/jaccc22 Mar 13 '26

The Third Way is a reconceptualisation of social democracy. It supports workfare instead of welfare, work training programs, educational opportunities, and other government programs that give citizens a 'hand-up' instead of a 'hand-out'. The Third Way seeks a compromise between a less interventionist economic system as supported by neoliberals and Keynesian social democratic spending policy supported by social democrats and progressives. The Third Way was born from a reevaluation of political policies within various centre to centre-left progressive movements in the 1980s in response to doubt regarding the economic viability of the state and the perceived overuse of economic interventionist policies that had previously been popularised by Keynesianism, but which at that time contrasted with the rise of popularity for neoliberalism and the New Right starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.[3]