What happened to bernie in 2020 broke me in a big way, like “i dont believe in the efficacy of democracy anymore” broke - but I knew he was irrelevant the second his campaign ended, and this does kind of affirm that.
I enjoy the back-handedness of what he’s saying, it’s like perfunctory and absolutely a non-defense of biden, but it just depresses me that this jackass isn’t president instead and every time he speaks it just reminds me that democracy is fake and that all the insufferable buzzkill anti-electoralists were completely right about goddamn everything
What happened to bernie in 2020 broke me in a big way, like “i dont believe in the efficacy of democracy anymore” broke - but I knew he was irrelevant the second his campaign ended, and this does kind of affirm that.
I enjoy the back-handedness of what he’s saying, it’s like perfunctory and absolutely a non-defense of biden, but it just depresses me that this jackass isn’t president instead and every time he speaks it just reminds me that democracy is fake and that all the insufferable buzzkill anti-electoralists were completely right about goddamn everything
That’s why most of us on our this site now
Reminder that liberal democracy does not hold a monopoly on the concept of democracy. There are genuine democracies out there, such as in Cuba.
bourgeois democracy, democracy can’t work under capitalism
It’s okay, if he’d gotten in as president he’d be even more compromised and would set back socialism for decades