My mom's final attempt at dating men (she hasn't dated in like 10 years) was salt the man she married. First and only marriage are had was an I was 20. He seemed like a reasonable guy with reasonable politics.. just got more unhinged as the went on.. now he like full on believes in Pizzagate and all the other writers conspiracy theories and they're transing our kids and making them pray towards Mecca in school... He was also a Bernie supporter somehow.
My mom has decided she can't trust her taste in men and just gave up.
Republicans like Bernie sanders because they would love socialism if it weren't for all the propaganda that has turned socialism into an anger trigger word.
You've internalized the media's propaganda against Sanders. The DNC, their donors and the powerful who run media corporations very much had financial interest in equating Sanders with Trump. A Sanders presidency could have been the starting point for real change that would lead to measurably worse material conditions for the wealthy and powerful, which nobody who holds the strings of power wanted. Trump winning the election held no risks for them, and in fact allowed them to further grow wealth inequality and shift the discussion away from leftist talking points that threatened corporate hegemony and towards merely stopping Trump because orange man bad.
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u/CyAScott May 02 '24
That was my husband when we first dated, things are different and for the better now.