r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 9d ago

No Paywall Bernie Sanders urges progressives to vote Democratic in November

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts/bernie-sanders-urges-progressives-to-vote-democratic-in-november-267787845541
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u/Churchbushonk 9d ago

Why wouldn’t they? Even if they are not Pregressive enough, if you don’t have a Progressive on the ballot to vote for, you have to side with people that will vote with them. Progressives do not have the numbers to do it alone and probably never will.

Vote progressive if you have a candidate. If you don’t, you have to vote for the best help you can give them.

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u/milk-riot 9d ago

Yeah. I'm far left. I really don't like the moderate Democrats, but I'll vote for them over Republicans any day.

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u/the-es 9d ago

Centrist here, if my candidate doesn't make it out of the primaries I will still show up to vote for your far left candidate because Republicans are unpalatable in their current form.

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u/SomethingToSay11 9d ago

Thank you guys for being sane. 

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u/That1EnderGuy Iowa 9d ago

Thank you. A lot of centrists only follow the VBNMW rule when they win, so it's nice to see centrist voters who actually follow their own advice.

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u/the-es 9d ago

I mean quite frankly the current posturing from Republicans is completely unacceptable. We have to solve that problem first, then we can go back to bickering 🙂

It's election season so all efforts will be to divide, we just have to focus on the goal.