I wouldn't have picked Bernie for President (unless of course he was the nominee, I certainly wouldn't vote for the Reich Wing!) but I'm 100% with you on the need to legislate away corporate "citizenship." That still leaves too much power in the hands of extremely wealthy individuals, though. We need campaign finance reform across the board. Unfortunately, the corruption was built in at the start by the white landowning penishavers who wrote the Constitution. We ain't getting change from this administration, nor probably anyone else who's gonna have the funds to get elected.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn't have picked Bernie for President (unless of course he was the nominee, I certainly wouldn't vote for the Reich Wing!)

unless of course he was the nominee

Ex-fucking-actly.

It's amazing how many liberals will berate leftists to "vote blue no matter who" out of one side of their mouths and then screech that "Bernie couldn't win" out the other, even though the exact same arguments they tried to use in favor of Kamala would have equally applied to Bernie if he had been the nominee.

And the reality is, Bernie would've have peeled off huge swathes of disaffected/anti-establishment/accelerationist Trump voters that Kamala had no hope of reaching (especially after pivoting towards conservatism).

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I preferred both Hillary and Kamala. I even voted for Hillary in her primary against Obama. Bernie just doesn't do it for me, I don't find him likeable or persuasive.

But I'm not a fucking idiot, and I wouldn't screech or berate anyone because that's not productive either. I vote in every election, large or small, and I obviously chose the Blue Nominee in all the Presidential elections. Even Biden, and he was the hardest to support.