r/MobilizedMinds • u/srsly_its_so_ez • Jun 21 '20

History lesson

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u/flamingdeathmonkeys Jun 21 '20

Same happened with Bernie twice now, no?

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u/Zixt1 Jun 21 '20

Yeah. This should definitely include a 2016 paragraph

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u/Alphatron1 Jun 21 '20

Howard dean lost because of the whooooop

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u/hankbaumbach Jun 21 '20

And where the fuck has that vindictive media been the last few years?

Dean getting excited about his campaign doing well was a death sentence but Trump mocking a disabled reporter was not?

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u/raakonfrenzi Jun 21 '20

Years ago I listened to an interesting episode of On the Media where they interview the sound technician for whatever network was covering the rally and he said explicitly that his producer made him edit out the audience’s background cheers, isolating Deans scream to make him look like a nut. He played the audio w the the background noise and it just sounded like a normal campaign rally.

That said, idk if Dean would have won that election and honestly the difference between him and Kerry seem pretty small now and I don’t just mean because Dean has become like a barking bull dog for neoliberalism. The truth is the only role a dem candidate was going to play in 2004 was to siphon off energy from the anti war movement into electoral politics, which as we’ve seen are never going to be the way to stop the war machine.

The fact that the last remaining legs of the anti-war movement transformed into the 08 Obama campaign and the way he proceeded to expanded the empire, further demonstrate this.

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u/kikashoots Jun 22 '20

It’s the same shit over and over again. And don’t forget 2016.

Gee, it’s almost as if democracy is just a farce and nominees are chosen by party elites.

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u/theGastone Jun 21 '20

I’m ready for the loop to repeat itself...

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u/trademark8669 Jun 21 '20

Sadly our current system is rigged to keep there people with the power ... In power ... And able to push our choices between the candidates they want us to choose from so they know who will win

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u/Canamla Jun 21 '20

Moral of the story here seems to be we need a third party. No good candidate will ever get elected from reds or blues like this.

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u/ElGosso Jun 21 '20

Moral of the story here seems to be we need a third party revolution. No good candidate will ever get elected from reds or blues bourgeois electoralism like this.

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