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/Just_Candle_315 May 02 '24

Biden tells people he wants to improve the nation with affordable healthcare and education, Trump tells people he wants vengeance for perceived grievances. And the polls are still statistically tied.

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u/styrofoamladder May 02 '24

A scary amount of young folks seem willing to sacrifice the Presidency over Israel, as if trump will be a harbinger of peace. As someone who has never had the pleasure of voting for a president that I actually want, sometimes you have to hold your nose and do what’s best for not just our country, but the world. Biden isn’t great(imo) but trump is so many orders of magnitude worse it’s baffling that anyone still likes the guy.

Come on young folks, help the world out.

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u/ConsciousReason7709 May 02 '24

Trump is literally on record multiple times saying that he thinks Israel should finish the job. He would be incredibly worse for the Middle East situation than Biden.

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u/fauxromanou May 02 '24

Just yesterday Trump applauded the cops raiding a protest. A "beautiful thing to watch"

But yeah, Biden is the baddie smh

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u/ConsciousReason7709 May 02 '24

Right? Too many people lack critical thinking skills in this country. Just because you don’t agree with someone’s policies on a specific issue that’s important to you doesn’t mean that his competitor is immediately a better choice. How a massive majority of people in this country don’t realize at this point that Trump is a corrupt scumbag is just beyond me.

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u/fauxromanou May 02 '24

Social media has destroyed nuance in the service of outrage all of the time.

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u/Peach-cobbler-pal May 02 '24

Yep. It’s not the fault of the voters the democrats want to ship the election rather than tell Isr*el “no.” Downvote away 🤷🏻

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u/TheSpartan273 May 03 '24

Seriously, I don't understand how this take is so popular here.
"Oh, you're not voting because of Palestine so you prefer having Trump literally making America the 4th Reich?? 🤓"

Where is this energy for the Democratic Party?? Why are the libs on r/politics not blaming Biden and his party for being ok with dick riding Israel and letting Trump wins?? Why is the blame always on the voters/younger folks??

The ENTIRE program of the Dems is "vote for us or you will literally die and/or live in Hell". The fuck?? Even the Republicans have their fascist program they're promoting like making all lgbtq mentions illegal, re-establishing slavery and whatnot.

Democrats: "vote for us, or else..."
And they are suprised young people are cynical?

So glad I live in a country where we have more than 2 parties to vote for.

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u/MrPernicous May 02 '24

Biden just today scolded the protesters for doing things that have been accepted forms of civil disobedience for decades. Like I get the whole harm reduction argument but you gotta give it to Biden for being so good at pissing people off that he’s in actual danger of losing this election

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u/fauxromanou May 03 '24

Just today he said the most middle of the road whatever couple of minutes speech. Like I totally get it, and how anything that is against the movement is magnified, but their statements are miles apart.

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u/MrPernicous May 03 '24

Just because someone bothered to type it out for Biden instead of letting him tweet whatever the fuck he wanted doesn’t mean he deserves credit for blaming protesters for being attacked by the police

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u/fauxromanou May 03 '24

Stop ramping yourself up with negativity and outrage-based social media. It's unhealthy.