• AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That basic strategy is why you rarely see people shitting on Bernie. He manages to pull the conversation to the left while not fucking everything up by being a spoiler.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Yup. He wants to be the most left option in a two party system, so when he runs to be that, he competes in Democratic primaries (both nationally and locally) to clear the lane so he’s not setting up a scenario where the conservative wins because the left is divided.

      Of course who knows what the centrist Democrats would have done if he’d won a presidential nomination, but at least Bernie did everything right.