• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    The Bernie-Trump pipeline is a thing. MAGA is fueled by social and economic uncertainty, and unlike the Dem establishment Bernie actually offers solutions to those things. The problem is that solutions from the left are incessantly shut down by the establishment (with little resistance from progressive leaders) while “solutions” from the right are embraced by it (and when they aren’t, the right actually fights to change that), so undereducated people in red states see two realistic choices, one that has solutions for their troubles and one that doesn’t. My point being that plenty of Republican voters only vote red because the blue side offers them exactly nothing, not because they want an all-white ethnostate. Theoretically that group has no reason to hate Bernie.

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      5 days ago

      two realistic choices, one that has solutions for their troubles and one that doesn’t.

      One that claims to have a solution. They’re still dumb for not realising Republicans don’t give a shit about their troubles and their supposed solutions would only make things worse.

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        4 days ago

        thats why the gop ramped up the post-obama race hate train to divide them further, they have nothing to offer, and bernie had things to solve.