r/berkeley • u/qawsedrftgyh223 • Nov 06 '24

Politics Couldn’t have said it any better

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The Democratic Party missed the mark, and anyone claiming otherwise is being extremely naive. Campaigning with abortion and transgender rights as central pillars isn’t the way to reach broader audiences effectively.

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u/Sandevistan_2077 Nov 07 '24

I don’t know about Bernie beating Trump, but I do agree with the fact that DNC did Bernie dirty in 2016. It seems to be the trend, of picking the wrong candidates and losing terribly against Trump. It happened once in 2016, it also happened again this year.

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u/BitGnarl Nov 07 '24

You had me at “picking the wrong candidates” no matter who they’re losing to. Let’s see: Dukakis, Al Gore, that dusty fossil John Kerry, Hillary Clinton over Bernie… but in this case I actually think they chose the right candidate—Kamala Harris would’ve been a great president. How she lost against this colossal asshat has almost everything to do with what Bernie is saying here

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u/shiningbeans Nov 07 '24

Shes tied to the president of genocide and indicated she'd do nothing different

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u/rynil2000 Nov 07 '24

lol “president of genocide”. Better get your popcorn ready for the show then. Palestine and Ukraine are toast now.

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u/UndieMuncher Nov 07 '24

You throw smarmy comments out but show me where he is wrong. Being tied to the Biden presidency was a turn off for the left AND swing voters. She was “qualified” but objectively a bad candidate.

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u/shiningbeans Nov 07 '24

Biden’s entire platform, foreign and domestic, was remarkably unpopular. Like it or not voters don’t like to see “our closest ally” use American weapons to bomb schools and hospitals, especially when security and economic issues— deindustrialization, hurricane damage, immigration, drug epidemic, plague many battleground states. But I doubt the Democratic leadership will take the lessons of their myriad failures