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Grakus's avatar

No, he would not have won anymore than he did in 2020. African-Americans were among voters who rejected him then at the request of capital-loving democrats. The essay dances around the real issue which was elucidated by Louis Brandeis: "We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can't have both." Democrats are "humane" capitalists, but they're still capitalists. Even elected, Sanders couldn't have changed that--with two other branches bought-and-paid for. If history repeats itself, the writing is on the wall. Capitalists will never relinguish power by democratic means. Ask Julius Caesar. Ask the Gracchus brothers who attempted to reduce wealth disparity. The problem isn't candidates: the problem is unregulated capitalism. We the People now serve the capitalists instead of the other way around. Democracy has been vaporized by an ignorant populus that believes that democracy is the right to make money.

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Sonya's avatar

I agree, when you say the problem is unregulated Capitalism, and both parties are guilty. The more wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, the more the working class suffers and this is worldwide. Even security, surveillance and war have become such big business that endless conflict is inevitable.

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Oîd.com's avatar

Don't generalize like this : "African-Americans were among voters who rejected him" - and it's not true.

In fact this was the reality in the 2020 race -prior to the Jim Clyburn /Obama "Bernie Ambush" . The Clyburn and Obama South Carolina Primary and subsequent shenanigans was not done on-behalf of Black Democratic Voters or at Black Voters behest .

Here's the facts:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has widened his lead for the Democratic presidential nomination and overtaken Joe Biden in support among African Americans - a voting bloc that until now has largely favored the former vice president, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national poll released on Tuesday.

The result could spell trouble for Biden, the one-time frontrunner who has lagged behind the field after the first few Democratic nominating contests. To remain a viable contender, Biden has been banking on a strong showing in Saturday's South Carolina primary, a state where black voters make up more than half of the Democratic electorate. https://www.reuters.com/article/world/sanders-surpasses-biden-among-african-american-voters-reutersipsos-poll-idUSKBN20J2J8/

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Grakus's avatar

Yes, but he eventually lost bigtime: https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/03/bernie-sanders-lost-black-vote-south-carolina/, due in no small part to the Clyburn/Obama hit he suffered, as you said. And note I said "among voters who rejected him"; Blacks weren't the only ones. Most notably, as some pundits point out, the democratic establishment representing corporate interests rejected him and invested heavily in selling Biden to the public.

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Oîd.com's avatar

Well, the fact that 20 million fewer American voters voted in 2024 and now seemingly think American viability as a democratic nation is in question , suggest the destruction of Sanders 2020 and 2016 impacted far more than Bernie .

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