this has been known and talked about. i know bernie isn’t the most popular, but it’s undeniable how the DNC fucked up his campaign knowing he would’ve been the nominee in 2016 & 2020.
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The difference as it appears right now: bearnie talked a big game but then folds to the DNC and gives them his support.
It’s like his role is mearly to get the dissatisfied left consoladated and then deliver a percentage of them back in to the DNC voter base.
RJK jr sounds different, but time will tell.
one is a sitting Senator, the other is not
i really think he gave in because he knew he had no choice. he knew if he acted out and called them out, it would just give further ammo to the DNC. even simply showing his distaste at biden’s inauguration, made democrats turn chastise him for being a “bad sport”
I just hope nothing happens to RJK jr, it’s risky, although very brave, business directly saying what we all knew out loud like that. The corruption runs deep, and sadly they will make sure it’s silenced.
Bernie is just far too pragmatic. He legitimately still thinks the DNC is far better than the RNC and in both elections thought potentially splitting the vote would lead to and instant Trump win (which would’ve been true), but he was willing to sacrifice first principles in order to prevent that outcome.
i truly believe he doesn’t believe in the DNC in the slightest, he just know he has to. Not the biggest lie a senator has said. Both the RNC & DNC are absolutely corrupted past point of return. We are in need of reform, but nothing can happen when the voice of citizens are silenced and forced to comply with whatever the parties conjure up.
I think you’re right. It makes me really sad that so many people with seemingly good intentions aren’t able to make the change that they want to see in society because of the way our government is structured.
I firmly believe that more people are going to see economics (and specifically Bitcoin) as the final tool needed to legitimately improve the lives of others around them and reform the structure of broader society. It just sucks watching all the pain and failure that has to be endured by those who don’t see that yet.
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The past two primaries have been objectively rigged. The 2016 primary was the first time I realized “something’s not right here.” I was a Freshman in high school following politics for the first time. Not a single vote had been cast and Clinton had like 530 ‘superdelegates’ to Sanders zero.
The general election is a obfuscated shit show where you have to choose between the lesser of two evils, while the primaries are generally rigged by the parties or at a minimum influenced by whoever’s campaign has the best funding.
Our leaders are not chosen legitimately and do not represent the interests of the general population.
first off, hey zach, we seem to be near the same age. you perfectly described the experience i had at 15 seeing this all unravel. We were powerless. It truly changed the way i viewed American politics from that time on.
I was a big Bernie supporter at the time and was so upset. He’s the senator from my home state and I thought that all the problems we have in society could be solved if we just had a leader willing to address them.
My friends would make fun of me, but all I wanted to do or talk about was how it wasn’t right the way the system was structured. I’d go on long rants at the lunch table, argue with teachers, and watch political channels like “Secular Talk.”
I wish someone could’ve handed me a copy of the Bitcoin standard back then, but it took me 5 years of searching to finally find something which had a legitimate chance of solving these problems.
we would’ve been good friends, it was awful being so incredibly hyper aware of the important issues in our country and world, whilst having to deal with our age and the expectations of being ignorant and focusing on the childish things. me and two friends skipped school to see bernie speak in st. louis that year, it was probably the last time i felt like we the people had any power over our government and elections.
I’m also with you on the fact of not learning about bitcoin until years later, but try and not beat myself up for it as we were teenagers, we found bitcoin when we could. Thank you for putting into words how that time felt, it’s hard to describe those years to people when the moment you mention how old you were, they disregard you.
I would’ve loved the lunchroom discussions 🫂
And I don’t beat myself up too hard. The only thing I regret is not having been able to make a more positive impact on my community sooner. Obviously, if I had somehow stumbled across Bitcoin in 2016, I could’ve made a lot more change at the time than I was really able to.
Here’s a funny Facebook status post from my mom in January 2009 though - sometimes I feel like this was destiny. 
Pretty sure DNC played dirty to wreck Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign too