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I was already pretty deep down the leftist pipeline, but I'd lie if I said Bernie didn't influence me
For a second I believed in electoralism and thought that there was a nonviolent option left
Bernie was the compromise candidate. Now he's just compromised.
Bernie, along with Kyle Kulinski are who got me into socialism to begin with (or rather, started me down the line. Richard Wolff is actually who got me into post-capitalism idiology).
Pretty cringe to admit this but oh well: I started reading Marx specifically because I wanted to learn more about what socialism was, without hearing it from a biased source. I wanted to hear it from the man himself. And although I considered it for a time before Bernie, I think his unashamed self-description as a socialist pushed me to actually read.