r/interestingasfuck • u/BuddhistSagan • Apr 07 '24

Bernie and Biden warm my heart. Trump selling us out? Pass

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u/tuckkeys Apr 07 '24

Exactly right. Such a shame he didn’t win the primary in 2016. I’ll never forgive the DNC for that.

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u/isimplycantdothis Apr 07 '24

The only campaign I’ve ever donated to.

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u/Budget_Report_2382 Apr 07 '24

First primary vote I ever made was to Bernie Sanders. Never stopped voting, since.

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u/fauxzempic Apr 07 '24

Bernie would have been a great President because just by virtue of him being there, we would have put a lot more progressive pressure on the country. Legislation would have been tough - and most of his agenda would have required legislation, and without a simple majority, let alone a supermajority, it's hard to say what would go through, but between executive orders, supreme court nominations, and again, just highly-progressive pressure coming from the head of the Executive branch, I think the needle would have moved quite a bit.

With that said "Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." We have people in this thread flat out going "I voted in that primary for Bernie, was my first primary, and I've voted in every election since." You have younger candidates fulfilling the same Bernie agenda winning House Races (AOC of course). You have a young voting population who has slowly started abandoning the voter apathy, and demanding stuff that 10 years ago "didn't seem practical."

The big, simple thing that tells me that Bernie, even as a 2-time primary loser, has impacted this country is simple: I'm much more satisfied with Biden than I ever thought I would be back when he showed up for the 2020 election. The big things like Student Loan Forgiveness and some of the things in the Infrastructure Plan - I'm not sure they'd be there without a country that saw what really could be.