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I am sick and tired of people shaming and scolding Bernie-supporters for not gleefully jumping onto the Biden-wagon.
I snapped.
Here’s my full response to end all of that nonsense.
If this resonates, use freely.
THREAD
(1/21)
I snapped.
Here’s my full response to end all of that nonsense.
If this resonates, use freely.
THREAD
(1/21)
You—who are only now—wagging a self-righteous finger at Bernie-supporters, preaching about “not wasting your vote” and “ABCXYZ amounts to a vote for Trump” have successfully demonstrated your juvenile political-acumen.
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First, such sophistry and moralizing does not whatsoever achieve its ostensible goal of inducing the target-audience to vote for your desired candidate.
Thus, the actual effect—instead of the intended effect—requires careful attention.
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Thus, the actual effect—instead of the intended effect—requires careful attention.
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The strategy of condescension and scolding bears the actual effect of further frustrating an audience who are already (rightfully) angered over the socio-structural factors that have rendered their current condition socioeconomically unlivable and unsustainable through a
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political-design that both Biden and Trump will fortify, near equally. (Do not mistake this to mean that I am making the charge that both candidates are the same — that’s a separate, but empirical, argument that does, nonetheless, amount to few differences for those who
(5/21)
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are worst plundered by the status quo.)
In other words, you‘re *effectively* (intentions don’t matter) spitting on those statistically worse-off than you, yet achieving—through snobbery—nothing more than illustrating your detachment from the awful conditions they bear.
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In other words, you‘re *effectively* (intentions don’t matter) spitting on those statistically worse-off than you, yet achieving—through snobbery—nothing more than illustrating your detachment from the awful conditions they bear.
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This renders your entire behavior into a tawdry performance of no positive-yield upon anyone beyond your own camp. Such pageantry amounts to a mere self-righteous ‘flex’ for your own audience.
Second, only now raising the scepter of “voter responsibility” shows that your
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Second, only now raising the scepter of “voter responsibility” shows that your
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anti-Bernie bias has hitherto stunted your political-acumen.
Poll upon poll, study upon study, accumulated in dizzying height—each showing that Bernie Sanders was the likeliest candidate projected to defeat Trump, while offering policies most conducive to raising the very
(8/21)
Poll upon poll, study upon study, accumulated in dizzying height—each showing that Bernie Sanders was the likeliest candidate projected to defeat Trump, while offering policies most conducive to raising the very
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quality of democracy required to achieve the equity and equality to which Democrats pay lip-service as the desired ‘goal’.
And yet, despite it all, you, all along, likely supported and voted for Warren, Buttigieg, Biden, Klobuchar, Harris, or others, each of who
(9/21)
And yet, despite it all, you, all along, likely supported and voted for Warren, Buttigieg, Biden, Klobuchar, Harris, or others, each of who
(9/21)
1) had far less statistical-chance of defeating Trump, and who 2) offered policies that categorically—aka you can’t this conceal thru pontification—emerge from and strengthen the archaic political-paradigm that gave us both Trump and the misery that our worst-off endure.
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By “worst-off”, the victims aren’t limited to the US, but includes millions abroad who suffered and perished from the neoliberalism and the murderous imperialism that the US exports, and which every single candidate—except Bernie—verifiably will have continued.
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In a free-society, you’re entitled to all of that. And yet, here you are, raising the concept of “responsible”. You are the one doing so. And so, you should appreciate anyone who upholds your own principle (voter responsibility) in comparison to *your* actions.
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It’s easy to point blame at those who defy Elizabethan respectability-politics by being the “angry Bernie bro”—a racist, sexist, transphobic, and classist stereotype. But few among you is willing to have that principle held up against your own voter-behavior.
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Beyond the above, many of you went further and thus worse. Even after your candidates lost primary after primary—even after polls continued to show their inferior chance at winning the primary and general election, and even after they dropped-out—you still proceeded to
(14/21)
(14/21)
write-in their names when the ballot arrived at your state. AND MANY NON-BERNIE DEMOCRATS WILL STILL DO SO. But your handwringing isn’t directed at those voters.
Perhaps this is the moment to reflect on the particular bias you hold towards Bernie-supporters.
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Perhaps this is the moment to reflect on the particular bias you hold towards Bernie-supporters.
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All of that makes you complicit in the corruption and anti-democratic antics of the DNC and corporate-media, who together have systematically disempowered the campaign of the most (statistically) popular politician in the US, Bernie Sanders, whose supporters emerge
(16/21)
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from the most oppressed segments of the US population, including undocumented, who continue languishing here without healthcare (among other human rights).
As a side-note, Medicare For All—for which only Bernie continued to fight, and which Warren abandoned—was the only
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As a side-note, Medicare For All—for which only Bernie continued to fight, and which Warren abandoned—was the only
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healthcare policy that would have fully covered undocumented Latinx Americans.
Yet, now, you’re handwringing — without accounting for your complicity in all of this. Not only is that the height of irresponsibility, but also hypocrisy.
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Yet, now, you’re handwringing — without accounting for your complicity in all of this. Not only is that the height of irresponsibility, but also hypocrisy.
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And many of us see through such disingenuous facades and impotent strategies for coercing Bernie-supporters to vote for Biden.
But if indeed your goal is genuine, then here’s what you can do, in three simple steps:
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But if indeed your goal is genuine, then here’s what you can do, in three simple steps:
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1) Close your mouth towards Bernie-supporters. Say nothing at them. Don’t preach. Don’t proselytize. Just 
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2) Channel all of your self-righteous energy towards forcing Biden into endorsing Bernie’s policies.
3) Sit quiet and hope that Bernie-supporters do as you want.
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2) Channel all of your self-righteous energy towards forcing Biden into endorsing Bernie’s policies.
3) Sit quiet and hope that Bernie-supporters do as you want.
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Final note: This post isn’t a discussion about who to vote for or voting at all. Nor is it commentary on voter-responsibility itself. This is *strictly* about the detached and elitist nature of those who are handwringing.
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