With the 2024 presidential race beginning to unfold, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said he believes that President Joe Biden will again earn the Democratic nomination — and the president likely win reelection if he runs on a strong progressive campaign.
“I think at this moment … we have got to bring the progressive community together to say, you know what, we’re going to fight for a progressive agenda but we cannot have four more years of Donald Trump in the White House,” Sanders said Sunday on “Face the Nation.”
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Sanders endorsed Mr. Biden in April. Sanders referenced several of those issues in underscoring what he believes is the importance of building “a strong progressive agenda” to win the presidency in 2024.
This, so much.
It’s so, so exhausting to keep on being told that “voters don’t want progressive policies because they don’t vote for progressive candidates” when the same people saying that are also the ones working the hardest (and spending the most money) to defeat progressive candidates by presenting them as ‘risky’ and doing their best to get voters to vote for the candidates backed by more money.
I would love to see American voting switch to Ranked Choice Voting. I’m tired of hearing the parties leverage voters’ fear of splitting the vote into compromising on a vote that ‘can win’- that pattern wags the dog far too much for my liking.
It’s also frustrating to watch the Dems fight against taking up policy that young people say they want because “young people don’t vote”. It’s as if people won’t vote for you if you keep on promising not to do the things they want
Please don’t assume I’m entitled or an idiot, and I do vote.
I vote consistently for Democrats in the general because they’re the least-bad option. I participate in the primaries. I am trying to help, try not to shoot the messenger.
With that said, this was a pitch-perfect example of jumping to the wrong conclusion and being a jerk about the thing you imagined (even though I am not it). I should be allowed to express frustration over what I see as self-defeating behavior, and sure enough you volunteered to exemplify it by turning what could have been a constructive exchange into a shitty one. Do better.
Stop being an entitled idiot and Vote. It’s that simple. Turnout for local elections, primaries, and off big ticket years is abysmal. There are no excuses. You have the power to vote for whomever you want. You can even write-in someone. Stop complaining that the status-quo won’t change for you. You aren’t going to get what you want by saying it. Vote or Run for those policies. If a majority of people don’t agree with you, then that’s that. You can push for ranked choice, but you aren’t going to get it complaining about it. You have to vote.