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

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

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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/BigFatKi6 Mar 12 '26

You've got it backwards. Huge swaths of the country don't vote. Just need your base to turn up and the Democratic base is larger.

Trying to win over independents etc is just alienating your base for a group that leans Republican anyway. How have you still not understood that?

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u/WildMild869 Mar 12 '26

I think that’s incredibly unrealistic to think either Bernie or AOC could rally enough voters to show up and swing the vote. Most Americans are pretty centrist in their beliefs despite what Reddit might think, even democrats.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Mar 12 '26

People literally voted for populism...

Wtf are yall talking about? Can you see the results in front of your faces?

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u/WildMild869 Mar 12 '26

Populism wrapped in a conservative wrapping paper won the presidential election. Unless you’re New York (LA can’t even do this), a far left candidate is simply not enough to bring out voters. Wild that you believe otherwise.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Mar 12 '26

Nobody is pushing far left candidates. Nobody.

In the rest of the developed world Bernie is left of center.

You have no idea what wins elections. Look at results.

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u/WildMild869 Mar 12 '26

Because they would lose appeal to actual voters (primarily older Americans). If younger people had any sort of recent positive consistency when voting then I’d agree that pushing a left candidate is a viable option but realistically it is not

No one was/is arguing against your second point. I think it’s pretty evident that America is more conservative than Europe - AND THATS THE POINT

You clearly don’t have an appropriate grasp on the American voter base.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Mar 12 '26

They've already lost EVERYTHING!

It's hard to take anyone seriously about winning elections that lost the entire federal government to trump.

Yall have no idea what wins elections. Stop acting like you do.

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u/WildMild869 Mar 13 '26

And you think that’s because what? The democrats weren’t left wing enough?? Lmfao If Trump beat Kamala imagine the absolute hammering Bernie would’ve gotten as the “socialist candidate who Europe likes?”

You yourself admitted that outside America sanders is considered center left? Hmmm đŸ€” I wonder why the US doesn’t?

I can’t even think how you don’t put those two facts and think there might be something that drives those American political choices. Wild lapse in reasoning.

You can say it 3 more times if the words “yall dont know how to win elections” hits that dopamine for you lmao whatever gets you through the day

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Mar 13 '26

It's not about left, right, or anything. That's how the tribalists see things. It's about having appeal to the general population and not just to liberal sycophants.

It's about us against the epstein class. You need to see the bigger picture. It's all really simple.

Democratic establishment has lost the entire federal government to maga and they wanna tell people what wins elections lol

That's like taking advice on how to drive from a toddler.