“It’s almost a cruel joke on the electorate that the longest presidential election potentially ever might also be the one that they’re least excited about,” said one Democratic pollster, speaking anonymously to candidly discuss the race.

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    10 months ago

    If Sanders is a polarizing figure, it’s because democrats (and republicans, obviously) paint him that way because his policies diaagree with their donors. In reality, Sanders’ policies align with the vast majority of Americans, but there’s no way that’ll be allowed through our bought-out election system.

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      10 months ago

      Bro I’ll let you try and explain the difference between communism and socialism to my boomer Conservatard father, this is your average Con, Neo-Con, and Neo-Lib, they simply often can’t separate the terms, and with Bernie unabashedly displaying the socialist/democratic socialist moniker he scares the people who can’t get over the red scare and the anti-communist/socialist programming they’ve been brainwashed with for decades, and it’s specifically that kind of stuff that makes Biden the better and safer pick against Trump, plus Bernie is older than both Trump and Biden, so there is the age factor as well.