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Don't forget, Sanders is the only person Trump has ever admitted he's afraid of.
Is there a real plan to shore up our "democracy" if the Democrats win this election? What is Biden going to do next term that he didn't do this term?
I feel like people are so fixated on Trump that they can't see past him. Trump is a giant, clown-shaped piece of shit-- absolutely. How does the opposing party fail at politics so hard that someone like Trump ever even had a shot?
MUST WATCH: Bernie Sanders - Why People Vote For Trump
He's 100% right on this.
Even for a politician who doesn’t mince his words, his assessment of a Trump victory in November is sobering. “It will be the end of democracy, functional democracy.”
It may not happen on day one, he says. Trump wouldn’t be as obvious as to abolish elections. But he would steadily weaken democracy, making it harder for young people and people of colour to vote, enervating political opposition, whipping up anger against minorities and immigrants.
This interview with Sanders is from January of this year, well before the recent CPAC and Trump's open calls to end democracy. And it's the only point upon which I disagree with him.
I think elections WILL be abolished, and Trump will have no reason to slow down or hide his real objectives, even on Day 1.
Just to remind people, Day 1 of Trump's first term he used to begin opening up and even selling long-protected BLM lands to corporate mining and energy companies.
Trump has a horrific agenda. Dismantling anything that could be an obstacle for him later is at the top of the list, like democracy itself, and he'll get to it as soon as his feet land in the Oval Office.
And it's not just about Trump being weak, craven, and humiliated: Trump is, essentially, a demagogue and a puppet, one that is owned by foreign interests. His owners will ensure that all Trump's days are spent dismantling democracy, ensuring places like Cop City get up and running on schedule, and returning us all to the company store economy as soon as it can be done.
Watch the VP pick closely. It won't be Trump's choice, it will be someone relatively unknown that his owners pick, in the same way that Mike Johnson came out of bumfuck nowhere to be Speaker of the House. Watch that second place very carefully, because that's who will eventually be POTUS once the hamberders, tertiary syphilis, and/or dissatisfied foreign Trump debt owners finish with Trump.
If trump wins and America can't defeat his senile version of fascism, then it's already on the death bed waiting for the next republican to take power...
trump is the best authoritarian we're going to get, he's easy mode, the republicans will get someone worse, someone who has the ability to think beyond his next shit.
It's not going to get better only worse...
Sanders is one of the only politicians unworthy of the guillotine.
Citizens United needs to be removed.
The massive polarisation in the media needs to be addressed and the outright blatant lies told by the Rightwing goons needs to be legally stopped. ‘Free Speech’ my ass. They need to be labelled ‘opinion’ or ‘entertainment’ or something other than pretending to be ‘fair’ or ‘news’.
I was proud to vote for Bernie in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, but I bit the bullet and phone banked for Biden even though he was far from my first choice. There's way too much at stake here.
We don't have much of a democracy as things stand considering the average person doesn't influence policy lol. If all hope is on Biden clutching it out then we better brace for the end. Dems had 4 years to plan ahead.
Funny how many comments just went poof! Gone! So this place is basically /r/politics now? Mods smoking out every opinion they don't like?
Funny thing is, the deleted comments were from liberals, not raging conservatives spewing bile and lies. Must not have passed the purity test.
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