chapotraphouse

forward: This is jsut a ramble cause we seem to agree or close enough and I took the chance to vent about politics shit stressing me lol

The Bernie years, for me, were "This guy is just offering New Deal white supremacy again and they still would kill everyone before letting him win"

I don't say that to be some ultra "I'm the one true leftist" because I voted for him too, had to write him in for even the primary in 2020 cause Texas but I get having hope cause I did, too, even when it was over. I got on with Bernie people both times he ran because it was hope for something even a tiny bit better. But that's what he was. That's why a small segment of the liberal opposition could say with a straight face there were racism and sexism problems in his base. . . because there is in any base which can bring itself to support any American politician. The Warren people were right, too "He's basically the same so vote for the woman", he was, he is, they agree on almost everything except Bernie can be really excellent at appealing to people by sounding good in the way we're more likely to recognize and not think is condescending faff.

Biden is just . .. he's a stereotype, I mean all successful politicians are archetypal characters more than people, but he's every segregationist Democrat who loves 50s nostalgia I've ever met. He's a young dad in the 1970s going to a Grease party because that's how he wants to remember the 50s.

I dunno if there ever was a world where Bernie could have been FDR 2.0 - he didn't have the class connections which made FDR possible, but that's not the path our timeline took, possible or not.