• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Because when Obama did it in 08, all those bitter moderates voted Republican.

    And they’re still shitty that it didn’t stop Obama for daring to run against Hillary when it was her turn.

    So for 16 years they’ve been repeating to themselves that a progressive candidate can’t win because moderates will vote Republican. Even though the only time in modern history it happened, the progressive still flipped a bunch of red states in a huge win.

    The people running the DNC are fucking terrible at getting Democrats elected, because they don’t have the same idea of what a democratic candidate should be as what party voters think a candidate should be.

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      3 months ago

      It’s worse than that, they don’t care if a dem is elected or not, they raise more money being the opposition party when a hated opponent is in office anyway. Not like he is going to do anything that hurts them or their pocket books directly anyway