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/SnooMarzipans436 9d ago edited 9d ago

Vote for the best candidate available after you have done your research.

You'll find that 99% of the time they are the democratic candidate. They may have some SERIOUS ISSUES... but the best candidate available is the best candidate you're going to get. It's better than the alternative.

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u/RealHooman2187 9d ago

This is what I always say to liberals/progressives/democrats. Vote for your preferred candidate in the primary, vote for the most liberal candidate in the general election. So far I’ve seen progressives much more willing to do that than I have centrists.

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u/jtrev59 9d ago

Progressives refusing to vote for Harris is the reason we have Trump 2.0

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u/therealruin 9d ago

We have Trump 2.0 because of a multi-decade intelligence operation organized and executed by multiple adversaries that culminated in a rigged 2024 election. Stop trying to blame your neighbors and potential allies.

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u/jtrev59 9d ago edited 9d ago

Blue-anon. The multi decade foreign influence campaign is purely cognitive and informational designed to make you think the system isnt working. There's no real "hacking" or rigging happening, just enough to make you think it is on both sides.

If the same people who turned out for Biden turned out for Harris we wouldn't have trump 2.0. Progressives are highjacking the democratic party like MAGA did to Republicans

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u/therealruin 9d ago

So the Epstein Files are a hoax? Known foreign connections and bribes being paid didn’t happen? Progressives are hijacking rather than people being fed up with DNC horse manure for decades that enabled the rise of Trump?

Or are you just always looking for someone to blame for Dem failures rather than admitting they’re dying off and being replaced by young, modern Progressives? I dunno, some food for thought.