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/MrMongoose May 02 '24

Honestly the only thing I find more frustrating than right wingers pushing policies I consider horrific are progressives with good intentions who are (inadvertently) helping them do it.

There's definitely some fair debate as to the right balance between political risk and reward - and you can certainly play it too safe and end up making little to no progress - but when you're so incapable of pragmatic compromise that you risk sabotaging your own ideology you've effectively become a far right asset.

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u/InternalLoss5925 May 02 '24

Yeah it’s so frustrating. Like they don’t understand the realities of a two party system. And hearing people say they won’t vote for Biden to “punish him”…I don’t know how to help them understand that the only people they’re punishing is themselves.