40. "4 years ago I supported Bernie, years before that Obama" In response to In response to 32 Tue Apr-14-20 02:28 PM by MEAT
And this year Warren The Warren campaign kept in touch with constant communication, field calls, small texts, small donation requests ... every weekend there was a ground crew trying to get me out to register voters ... it was a campaign.
Years prior the Obama campaign was very similar.
The Sanders campaign was Not Not in the least. It was the grassroots campaign that never expanded its soil. Sure there have been rallies, but it operated the same way a Green Party candidacy did. That if the ideas are good enough the people will come. Despite that literally never working out to scale in America. The Bernie Sanders second run was cynical as hell. It operated much like Magneto and the Brotherhood, that the hope was that enough people are disillusioned with the now that they'll gather together to usurp it.
But that requires work. That strategy requires a lot of work that the campaign simply did not do. And the failures of that campaign lie within that. Not with boogeyman, but the lack of will to do the work to sell the ideas.
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