#2016 primary

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

[evilelitest2]

My biggest disappointment with this race

Is seeing Sanders fans act exactly like the Hillary Clinton stans back in 2016.  Same calls for unity, same behavior towards their candidate, same “insult not convince attitude” and same wanton ignoring of the consequences of alienating segments of the base before a General Election.  Its pretty discouraging, even though I should be much happier, one of the two candidates  like is winning.

Wait no the actual biggest disappointment of the race is fucking Bloomberg still being a thing

[adventistthings]

we all know there was only one option in the 2016 republican primaries...

[thenib]

From Matt Lubchansky.

[theegoist-houdini-splicer]

Has this been done yet

[the-real-mike-crapo]

made by tony

[sassysailorsiren]

I’m trying to keep my Facebook tame because I have a recital coming up so

I’ll just put my rant over here.

TW: 2016 primary and general elections (irony implied. not really though, that sh was traumatizing). When are we going to stop hearing about Hillary Rodham Clinton's FBI investigation causing her to lose the election, and when are we going to start talking about the fact that she lost because she was bad? She won the primary by winning all the red states we KNEW she wouldn't win in the general. Also by calling American people "deplorables". Also by being overall out of touch with most of middle class Americans. And besides that, when are we going to focus on the actual issues facing this country and other countries, on account of US? The election was six months ago. The more important election, the one where we could have nominated the person who would actually beat Trump, ended ~11 months ago. The time to focus up was YEARS ago. No more silly womens or science marches. Read the news. Actual news, not propaganda for the establishment (I'm looking at you, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, Fox). Read your sample ballots and vote wisely. Know which organizations back your candidates and causes. Get involved in LOCAL elections. Every single election matters. I'm going to give up if I see one more over-hyped highly-attended mainstream march, followed by like 12% voter turnout at an election. Promote intersectional feminism and think about the issues of people of color and low wage workers.  

[evilelitest2]

Why is everybody saying Sanders is winning when only three states have voted?

Cause the Priamry system is super stupid and I hate it.  Basically rather than having a national vote like a civilized country, we instead have this stupid system where 4 states get to vote early, and who ever wins these random parts of the country are determined to be “electable”  Like I don’t like Biden and I think Sanders is a better cannidate than him in almost every way, but it really shouldn’t matter that Biden did so badly in Iowa and New Hampshire, those are tiny states with almost no people.   Because these campaigns cost so much fucking money, if you don’t win in Iowa, the idea is ‘you can’t win” and people stop giving you money which means you do worse in later states, which means you don’t get money, which means you slowly collapse.  Its pretty shitty.  It screwed Sanders over in 2016, but now that he is benefiting from it I see a lot of his fans being totally in favor of the primary system.  

I’m not even mad at Sanders, he didn’t design this stupid system, and it really screwed him over in 2016.  I do wish his fans would stop pretending its good now that it benefits him, and if he does win, I hope he changes it so we never have to deal with this nonsense again.