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Earnest thread: Bernie helped mainstream ideas considered fringe lefty nonsense 4 years ago, and got tens of thousands if not millions of people involved in the work of politics: canvassing and phonebanking, but also organizing their workplaces and neighbors 1/
There should be plenty of serious reflections about what could have gone better, but that a democratic socialist came within striking distance of the White House *twice* and overwhelmingly won voters who are pragmatically speaking the future of the party is a big fucking deal 2/
Biden is the last gasp of a politics that's on its way out, and that doesn't hold any answers to the problems of the 21st century. Maybe the most pernicious thing about Trumpism is making his zombie politics look like a safe option when the stakes are outright catastrophe 3/
There's no going back to normal, however shitty that was. We're about to be in a recession, if not a depression. 100K people or more could die, and we've got a century of climate chaos hurdling toward us. Establishment Democrats have won a big battle and are losing the war 4/
Now isn't the time to get blackpilled or turn away from electoral politics. There's no answer to the crises we're facing that doesn't involve democratic majorities winning state power. Strong movements are more important than ever now. They also can't nationalize oil companies 5/
Bernie's politics and movement are more relevant now than they've ever been. Embracing the margins at this point is exactly what establishment Dems want so they can get their cushy administration jobs back without having to worry about the left or rethink anything 6/
Centrists are just defending turf and prestige at this point. They don't have ideas or young people! In a more functional democracy a social democratic party would now have a sizeable chunk of seats in the legislature. Let's act like it! 7/
I'm sad like everyone else but also just so insanely grateful to everyone in the Bernie orbit who's transformed the US for the better these last few years and made some kind of future seem possible. That vision will win. I just wish it would happen as fast as we need it to 8/8
