Bernie Sanders made an appearance at Coachella to warn the future generation of the great danger we’re facing: Oligarchy, dictatorship, oppression
Bernie Sanders made an appearance at Coachella to warn the future generation of the great danger we’re facing: Oligarchy, dictatorship, oppression
I’m get so mad thinking about how much better of a country we could be right now if the DNC and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz didn’t totally undermine him in 2016 to push Hillary instead. He likely would have utterly destroyed Trump in the election. I wish he would have just run as an independent after they submarined him.
It was mostly due to their collusion against Bernie, but far from exclusively.
The 2016 Democratic primary didn’t even break a turnout record at 28.5% nationally.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/06/10/turnout-was-high-in-the-2016-primary-season-but-just-short-of-2008-record/
The largest contributing factor in primary attendance remains to be the 30 partisan primary states that require voters to be registered as Democrats to vote in the Democratic primary.
Check your state’s primary type here: https://ballotpedia.org/Primary_election_types_by_state
While you’re not without a very valid point, I still have to wonder if the turnout issue was due to the crushing of the popular democratic progressive candidate in favor of the status quo candidate.
EDIT: I should also call out the “Hillary’s got it in the bag, no need for me to get the polls” folks also. But if I’m honest I felt the steam go out of the populous when HRC became the nominee. It didn’t all happen election night.
I believe that had a larger impact as well. I’m just familiar with the partisan primary problem from volunteering that year. Many registered independents or no party affiliation voters were pissed they couldn’t vote in NY. I’m sure that happened elsewhere too.
Thank you for volunteering.
I just distributed people into lines to keep them the same length. Far from heroic. I think they replaced me with orange cones when I went home. Lol
I’m just going to leave this here.
He would have lost, and it would have guaranteed a DNC loss. He knows the game.
You’ve got to get over your guy losing a primary nine years ago and understand there’s a clear and present danger today which is Trump, his voters and everyone who ushered this in by not caring enough to vote.
Thankfully, I’m capable of doing both.