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Unpledged delegates were never the issue, as much as that drum was beaten (until they were Bernie's only path to victory, at which point suddenly everyone was onboard with wooing them).
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Bruh, if the campaign was sunk by the other side lying, it was never going to stand a chance against the fucking GOP, which lies as easily as breathing.
Bernie lost in 2016 by some 10%, and the only reason he came that close was because Clinton was exceptionally unpopular amongst conservative Dems - as seen by Bernie's poor performance in those selfsame areas in 2020 against Biden, himself not exactly radically ideologically from Clinton.
Not even close to the truth. Fuck's sake.
I voted for Bernie twice, in 2016 and 2020. I would vote for him again in a heartbeat. That's not the same as thinking that there was some secret wellspring of support waiting in the wings that the evil DNC suppressed. We lost because this is not a left-leaning country.
Man, fuck them, but these are all things I said at the time as well. And I was pissed enough at the time to throw away my vote on a third party in the general election. Bernie, ultimately, was not cheated in 2016 so much as we, the Dem electorate, failed him. That the DNC leadership are a bunch of cowardly, spineless, visionless corporate bootlicks more interested in holding onto their own power in the party than moving America forward is a footnote in this particular story.
They downvote you because you spoke the truth