The wealthy and politically connected fucked over Bernie and every other American like they consistently do. Because Bernie would have actually helped Americans and they'd have another FDR to deal with.
People need to stop thinking it's D vs R. Both parties look out more for their donors than America, and they have a lot of the same donors. The only explanation for the DNCs actions back to 2016, is they'd rather have trump than a progressive.
trump let's moderates lower standards, a progressive president means standards would be raised, and no more Republican or "moderate" Dem president.
I've always felt that he would have delivered against trump in 2016. A paragon of living up to expectations of what our leadership should do at every stage of his life.
There's no "we" about it. The Democratic party no longer represents the people or unions. It represents corporate interests. Repubs do, too, but it's incorrect to think the Dems still care about the average working person.
It was Obama. Bernie was going to win. Obama called up Buttigieg and Klobuchar and told them to drop out in order to consolidate the non-Bernie vote around Biden. They did as they were asked.
It's nobody's fault except rich oligarchs who made sure media didn't cover him as much as others so pitiable non-voting, progressive, or moderate working class didn't know who was also great. Because Hilary would've been one of the best politicians on record to be President of the USA despite 20 years of smear campaigns effecting even the most progressive of us despite how much they'd like to think they weren't.
In the end a large swath of our population is at the whimsy of media at no small fault to republicans destroying public schools and oligarchs making even Lemmings think Democrats are a monolith that doesn't INCLUDE THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY.
Nope. He probably woulda gotten himself assassinated by these fucking capitalists and then we coulda had a proper left wing martyr to galvanize us... Then again, what happened after JFK? oh.
You mean making him one of the most powerful senators and the longest serving independent senator in the history of the country, as well as a bestselling millionaire author? Boo hoo, I wish America would do that to me.
Bernie could have won the nomination if he spent his career being friendly with the DNC like Biden and Hillary did instead of taking every opportunity to denigrate them