Bernie Sanders Just Ended His Presidential Campaign. Thoughts?

[Peter-Andre]

So it's now official. There will be no president Sanders and it's now a race between Biden and Trump.

What are your thoughts about this? What will the short and long term consequences be? Was Bernie a once in a generation candidate or is it likely that we will see similar candidates gaining popularity in the US during the next election cycle and over the next few years? How will this affect the likelihood of policies such as universal healthcare getting enacted in the US in the relatively near future?

Edited April 8, 2020 by Peter-Andre

[outlandish]

It's heartbreaking..

Joe Biden is so uninspiring. But the left really has to get out there and vote for him anyways. He's less bad than Trump, and the only one now who has any shot at toppling that toddler.

[AwakenedOne]

This is end for American top role in the history. Now it will turn into peripheral unimportant country, into something like Sweden.

[DivineSoda]

32 minutes ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

It' absolutely clear now that Trump has won the election, which isn't really a bad thing, maybe it will teach the Democrats a lesson

Hopefully it'll teach the people a lesson.. to stop believing and perpetuating this false Blue vs. Red paradigm (like most on this forum). Every time you vote for the lesser of two evils, you are creating the same shit over and over again. This is old paradigm thinking. Raise your standards. Demand better. 

[Tetrapeter]

[abundance]

Bernie was a very bright light and gave millions of people hope. Of course the struggle is not over. All this signifies is that we have to push further and harder to let our voices be heard. With this pandemic and Climate Change we are facing a very uncertain (and potentially grim) future. However we should not let our movement become an after thought in the annals of history. 

50 years from now when young people ask their parents how things got to be how they are - our movement should be highlighted as one of the few who stood up against the status quo. 

[Austin Actualizing]

1 hour ago, Shiva said:

If I could place a bet now, I'd put everything on Trump's reelection.

What's your rationale behind that? I sure hope not

[Parththakkar12]

Will the election even happen though, in light of COVID?

[Roy]

Trump will win again lol. Country is too corrupt and beyond saving. Bernie won't run again because he'll be too discouraged, tired, and dead in 4 years, and there likely won't be anyone like him for a while.

Pax Americana is coming to an end. America is declining as a hegemonic superpower. China will overtake the US economically and impose more of it's hard and soft power in the Asian world. It will be less and less affordable for the US to stop it.

[andyjohnsonman]

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mrxmQZlQVwxy

 

 

wow Bernie is using words like consciousness. I reckon he's on the path.

[Thewritersunion]

3rd term Trump lets go lmao

[Rilles]

its a sad day for the US... but the night is darkest before dawn... an even more conscious leader who knows how to work within the Spiral might appear in a few years! Otherwise US fear of Socialism might be its own downfall...

[SamueLSD]

10 hours ago, Tetrapeter said:

"fuck em all to death!"

[Heyyyyyy]

There's barely a difference between any western political parties, some percentages here or there; some laws to and fro. Not from the U.S but I'd imagine that moving toward less government control and simultaineously toward less big biz control would be fun.

[remember]

in some sense its also maybe not the most favorable decision to throw biden out of the white house entirely because of grudges – even though understandable, even though it was in a sense not an entirely fair game. just counterreacting and getting triggered in the sense: „if we won’t get what we want, no body else will!“ is the wrong way of doing politics. you don’t waste a country because your vavorite candidate didn’t win (although it happened before). sanders also said that the movement will go on and maybe its really time to stay a movement and an opposition who is able to sit at a table with biden. one thing is winning the primaries another is doing politics which will bring him in the white house. which means he might need to submit to what will get him there if he is smart enough. understanding voters are not for granted. i would not give in but try to at least make him realize that he has to coalise if he wants to get there.

it‘s not that the smaller parties always have a presidential candidate - but they make presidency possible, anyone who wants to sit on the throne needs to realize that - it’s a pretty simple rule.

for anything else the frogman in the carpet jumper has this fabulous idea of subchanneling.

Edited April 9, 2020 by remember