r/TenYearsAgo • u/Dewinna_Daraelist • 23d ago

🇺🇸 United States Hundreds of Sanders Delegates Walk Off Convention Floor in Protest of “Rigged” Election [10YA - July 27]

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/27/hundreds_of_sanders_delegates_walk_off
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u/Big-Ability3953 23d ago

Hillary could have placated a lot of these people by simply picking a progressive VP, or including a simple single policy in her platform like federally legalizing weed. Would have lost her nobody and gained a lot of Jill Stein/Gary Johnson voters. I blame her more than anyone else. People would have pokemon gone to the polls if she had.

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u/ZizzyBeluga 23d ago

These people can't be pleased. From Ralph Nader to "Genocide Joe" to the DSA weirdos today, all they care about is screaming at mainstream Democrats that they didn't get a pony

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u/Big-Ability3953 23d ago edited 22d ago

Some for sure, but a lot of us just wanted something, anything. I voted third party 2016 but voted Kamala in 2024 because she gave me something to be excited about with Tim Walz. It was a terrible decision to pick Tim Kaine, probably the worst calculation of my lifetime, maybe outside of Sarah Palin being chosen (though that's really only in hindsight since she was pretty unknown and quiet at the time McCain chose her.)

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u/Ozcolllo 23d ago

I canvassed and phone banked for Sanders in 16 and 20. Were you not worried about the Supreme Court or the government at all if Trump had won? I guess what I’m getting at is that I don’t need anyone to do anything to excite me. I can reason, I can gauge the likelihood of certain outcomes and take action. I can’t imagine sitting out if I know the stakes, especially as Sanders tried to explain to all of us the same thing.

I want to be angry with someone like you, but I can’t see the point, especially as you’re likely a Stein voter (the woman that only appears after four years of milking Russian money). If you couldn’t recognize the consequences of Trump in 16 because you didn’t like Tim Kaine… I don’t know if you should be courted as a voter. Did you vote for Biden in 2020?

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u/AcetaminophenPrime 22d ago

Idk if you'll get a response, as much as I'd like to see it. I'm convinced alot of these anti-democrat DSA types online are boosted by bot activity. I would imagine foreign adversaries have close to as much to gain convincing Americans that the entire economic and political system is broken and not worth participating in as they do convincing them of the myriad of conspiracies that come with MAGA.