Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the reelection of former President Trump would be the “end of democracy” in an interview released Saturday by The Guardian. “It will be the end of democracy, …

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the reelection of former President Trump would be the “end of democracy” in an interview released Saturday by The Guardian.

“It will be the end of democracy, functional democracy,” Sanders said in the interview.

The Vermont senator also said in the interview that he thinks that another round of Trump as the president will be a lot more extreme than the first.

“He’s made that clear,” Sanders said. “There’s a lot of personal bitterness, he’s a bitter man, having gone through four indictments, humiliated, he’s going to take it out on his enemies. We’ve got to explain to the American people what that means to them — what the collapse of American democracy will mean to all of us.”

Sanders’s words echo those President Biden made in a recent campaign speech during which he said that Trump’s return to the presidency would risk American democracy. The president highlighted the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol in an attempt to cement a point about Trump and other Republicans espousing a kind of extremism that was seen by the world on that day.

    • rbhfd@lemmy.world
      41·
      10 months ago

      Clearly you don’t understand the first-past-the-post system the US presidential election utilises.

      • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
        22·
        10 months ago

        >THIS is what you’re up against. Now is NOT the time to take a stand against single issue agendas.

        genocide is one of a long list of reasons I haven’t voted Democrat for president since 2008.

      • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
        23·
        10 months ago

        >If you do ANYTHING outside of voting for the one person that stands a chance to beat him- you’re throwing away a vote and allowing a vote for Trump to be counted unchallenged.

        wrong. I’m voting for cornel west, a different candidate. they aren’t allowed to just throw out votes.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
          32·
          10 months ago

          A vote for West does nothing, and means nothing if you’re in a safe Red or a safe Blue state. Safe states are going Trump or Biden regardless of who you personally vote for.

          In a SWING state, your vote does make a difference and voting for West is a lost vote. Congratulations on helping Trump win if you’re in a swing state.

            • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
              32·
              10 months ago

              West will not win any election, so any vote for him is a vote thrown away.

              Elections are won by 50%+1. Anything that takes away from a legitimate candiate reaching 50%+1 actively hurts that campaign, it’s not helping someone whose support sits in the margin of error.

              • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                4·
                10 months ago

                the language of “legitimate candidate” implies there are illegitimate candidates. and that’s peak irony: i am continually told that this election means the end of democracy.

                • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
                  32·
                  10 months ago

                  There are a whole host of illegitimate candidates. My favorite was a guy named Lyndon Larouche who was grade A insane, but he also had a major fanbase and was always running for President.

                  His main platform was that the primary enemy of the United States was England and that the Queen of England was a cocaine smuggler.

                  He regularly got about the same number of votes Cornel West will get.

                  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche

                  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                    41·
                    10 months ago

                    nothing about his candidacy is illegitimate, and votes cast for him were legitimate. to try to stop people from voting for him would be undemocratic.

                    cornel west is a legitimate candidate for president. he’s the only candidate i want to win this cycle, but i can still be won over again by jill stein. my vote for him would be a legitimate vote.

          • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
            31·
            10 months ago

            >Congratulations on helping Trump win if you’re in a swing state.

            i can’t believe a mod is allowed to lie and spread election misinformation here. a vote for west does not help trump win. only votes for trump do that.

            • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
              31·
              10 months ago

              When multiple people are telling you that your rationale is wrong, maybe it’s time to recognize the problem is not everyone else. ;)

              • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                31·
                10 months ago

                i think what you, and all those who have been lying about this, mean is that it doesn’t help the only candidate who (you believe) can win.

                well, if he wanted my vote, he’d try to get it.

                  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                    42·
                    10 months ago

                    he didn’t do a very good job of that, what with running the concentration camps and building a border wall. and that’s not what i want out of a president anyway.

                    i want them to dismantle the empire. that’s what cornel west is promising to do.