FutileRecipe@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Bernie Sanders: We Need More Working-Class Candidates to Challenge Both Parties
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11 hours agothrow away their votes on a 3rd party…That’s how Trump got elected a 2nd term
While that didn’t help, I don’t think it was the cause. Last I checked, if you gave Harris the 3rd party votes, Trump would still win. Republicans had increased voter turnout, while Democrats decreased…and overall turnout decreased. So it was apathy and lack of votes that won.
But I’m busy, going off memory, and didn’t check latest stats. So please, feel free to correct me.
Ref: https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin
Bernie is working with the Democrats. The Democrats are not working with Bernie. Bernie is picking the lesser of the two evils, as he sees it.
The criticism is not that Bernie doesn’t work with them, but rather they are not working with him. There is a difference between those two.