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No genuinely, what is your point? Bernie has been arrested for marching for Civil Rights in the 1960s. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-4406890016
So Bernie having a long track record is bad, but Trump tricking America using Russian assistance is good? Like what is the point here? Trump 9 years of running, Bernie in office for a while, therefore Bernie bad?
In less then a decade Trump took over the states completely with his movement and your response to that is Bernie started twenty years before I gave him credit for it?
And that's a victory in your eyes?
In all metrics Trump has achieved more in nine years then Bernie has in sixty.
So your advocating for more politicians to be more like trump and less like Bernie. Is that your point.
If by that you mean effective then yes.
So most effective equals most good. There's a old saying about that you know. It doesn't generally turn out well. "The ends justify the means". You wanna "efficiently" discuss eliminating the homeless problem' or any other minority you or someone else might find inconvenient. This won't go well and you know it. I a ant Bernie to be more effective too but this is a systemic user issue. We the people have/had the power to control this and stupid has won the day. Right wing authoritarian leaders are a PEBKAC issue.
Yes in politics the most effective usually get the most votes and the progressives could learn from it.
Liberals (like yourself) with a hate boner for progressives are largely indistinguishable from Trump supporters these days. It's hilarious.
Is it because we vote or is it because we don’t spend all our time telling other people they aren’t left enough to be part of our cause?
So how many progressives didn't vote this time around? Give us a number.
More then one and I can be pretty confident in that.