The Dems have expertly submarined Bernie.
Again.
You don't get to elect your nomination.
They tell you who you want.
How democratic.
This is a false narrative in my opinion.
Bernie offered Federal health care. Bernie offered federal child care. Bernie offered federal college. Bernie offered federal...
All solutions are essentially centralized and federalized.
Look at Pete. Pete suspects that if you create a public option, such that you can move into something like Medicare, that it will become wildly popular and people will see the benefit of having that choice and move to it on their own. This is a master stroke and suggesting what you think is the best plan and also making people feel respected and that they have a choice and autonomy. Nothing was stopping Bernie from making these kinds of moves on any of his policies. He simply refuses to And while polling shows that any number of his issues have a plurality of support, it is not through the same segments of the population.
Bernie's appearance here? Medicare for all is the right answer and if you disagree you're wrong and you're just not as smart as me. And whether that appearance is actually what Bernie thinks or just what his supporters say on Twitter and other places, that is how it makes people feel.
People didn't vote for Bernie because Bernie didn't build a coalition of people who agree with him in some areas and disagree with him and others.
The DNC did not torpedo Bernie. The only reason that Bernie was ever ahead was because all of the other candidates were splitting the vote. This occurs anytime you have a candidate that is far to the left or right... Or really anywhere outside of the general pool that will attract a group of supporters that only want that candidate. It is part of what let Trump push through when the GOP had way too many candidates dividing the vote. If some of the GOP would have gotten out of the way earlier, Ted Cruz probably would have been the candidate.
And even though I think this is all over due to momentum and the way that voters move, in a head-to-head vote yesteray between Biden and Bernie, Bernie lost. And that's not because everyone's stupid or it was manipulated. It's because people simply thought differently.
