• FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Or shunting off good candidates. Bernie has been talking truth for fucking 50 years but no nomination. There’s no central talking head, no real stated goal…

      I vote blue but fuck me they suck at rallying voters to a cause

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      11 months ago

      True, but not so much in this case. It was BLM, not the Democrats, and most Democrats rejected it. Biden even increased police funding in response.

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        I think most of this was because of the successful propaganda campaign that made every BLM protest sound like a riot when it was some tiny percentage in truth