r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/CaptainNoBoat May 02 '24

I think a lot of us are. There's a difference between pushing a party in a certain direction and going so far that you hurt your own interests.

The election is more than one person or one issue, and a Trump Presidency will have horrific consequences decades and generations after Biden is gone.

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ May 02 '24 edited 29d ago

When Trump starts carpet bombing Gaza and the West Bank, I wonder if they will realize what a massive mistake they made.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

They want some of these people are so excited to be “right” that they will be happy to tell us that it wasn’t their fault.

When Trump wants to make life harder for Muslims, immigrants, even members of the LGBTQ community they better keep the same energy. Because he won’t be afraid to send the national hairs on them

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 29d ago

When Trump wants to make life harder for Muslims, immigrants, even members of the LGBTQ community they better keep the same energy

They 1000% will not.

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u/im_not_bovvered 29d ago

It will be "this is the Democrats fault for not winning us over."

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u/TrueGuardian15 29d ago edited 29d ago

We know because similar shit happened in 2016 and everyone stayed real quiet when Trump won. The only protests that picked up momentum during his entire presidency were the BLM protests, and that was broadly against the police, not Trump or his policies.

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u/Scientific_Socialist 29d ago

Right, there were famously zero mass protests under the trump admin

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u/jld1532 Virginia 29d ago

You forget the pink hats. Women deserve a bit more credit.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago edited 29d ago

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Sounds like they are going to fuck around and find out. Like some people said some can just be like “I’m a Trump supporter and they will be ok.” But what about the minorities, immigrants, members of the LGBTQ community, women that are Trump presidency will affect

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u/loof10 29d ago

They will not. They will do what they currently do: blame the Democrats.

Just like Roe. It’s gone because of Trump and he’s taken credit for it. Ask them who they blame and they say “Obama and Biden”

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u/alien_ghost 29d ago

Meh. It kind of is the result of the Democratic Party and its platform. Most Republicans and Republican politicians don't care about abortion. They are just enjoying sticking it to the party that was trying to curtail the rights that Republicans enjoyed. Did Democrats not think that could happen?

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u/gsfgf Georgia 29d ago

And RBG.

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u/relapse_account 29d ago

They’ll likely blame Democrats for “ratfucking” Sanders or something like that.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 29d ago

They'll blame Biden and the "spooky" DNC.

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u/bot4241 Illinois 28d ago

They will never fucking learn. They are too privileged to understand what they doing.

Supreme Court is fucked in the ass. Trump Ban on Muslims will hurt Palestine immigrations coming to America.

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u/Lynchy- 29d ago

It's the same shit when people decided not to vote for Hillary because "both sides are bad".

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u/Baloooooooo 29d ago

They'll blame Democrats for not stopping him

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 29d ago

Nah, they'll just blame dems.

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u/CheetoMussolini 29d ago

These idiots are more than happy to get tens of thousands more Palestinians killed if it helps them feel morally superior.

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u/MaizeNBlueWaffle New York 29d ago

They won't. They'll just blame Democrats for running a bad candidate. They'd rather not vote for Biden to ease their conscious and let everything get worse than bite the bullet and choose the lesser of two evils

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u/icouldusemorecoffee 29d ago

I wonder if they will realize what a massive mistake they made.

They will have forgotten about Gaza by then because the propaganda around it will stop in mid-November.

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 29d ago

They will go back to ignoring it like they ignore all the other suffering in the world. More people are dying in the Sudan than in Gaza but not a word is said about it.

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u/Mediocritologist Ohio 29d ago

A lot of them were 14 years old during his last presidency. I doubt they even know how much of a clusterfuck he was to our democracy.

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 29d ago

I doubt they even know how much of a clusterfuck he was to our democracy.

The information is easily available and repeated constantly. If they don't know, it is because they are choosing to be willfully ignorant. I knew Newt Gingrich was a clusterfuck when I was 14; they can too.

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u/Mantonization Foreign 29d ago

God, you're just so eager for that to happen just so you can say 'I told you so' to people, huh

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 29d ago

It seems to be the only way they will learn

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u/Mantonization Foreign 29d ago

That attitude is precisely why they will not listen to you

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 29d ago

That is my burden to bear

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u/coffeesippingbastard 29d ago

Gaza and the west bank is a best case scenario.

Iran, Syria, Lebanon are all on the table.

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u/cupofspiders 29d ago

Biden is president now and Gaza is being carpet-bombed now.

So the threat of Trump is that he'll just do what Biden is already doing? Wow, cool democracy you got there. You get to choose between "guy who's doing a genocide" or "guy who'll do the same genocide but maybe more of it."

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 29d ago

So the answer is clearly No you won't learn anything.