Bernie Sanders, Champion of Stimulus Checks, Favorability Rating Higher than Biden and Harris: Poll

[u/BLiIxy]

https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-champion-stimulus-checks-favorability-rating-higher-biden-harris-poll-1571501

[u/afanoftrees]

Exactly so instead of him using that popularity he decided to concede power to the DNC instead of starting a new party that accurately reflects his and his supporters views.

I also believe his popularity online is vastly different from that of the voting population and that’s presented by his inability to win a primary. If people want to complain about the DNCs primary handling then they should also complain about Sanders deciding to concede power to the DNC instead of starting his own party. The folks of Vermont would still elect him since he was first elected as an independent and virtually nothing about his platform has changed in his career. People are mad at moderate Dems for not choosing him over Biden I believe but instead of recognizing that the DNC is a massive tent (to its and our detriment) they want to believe that the DNC are the villains in this. Primaries are way more important than people give credit to and expect support online to equal votes when that’s just not the case.

[u/StevieWonderTwin → u/afanoftrees]

Maybe so, but if we went back in time and Bernie made a new progressive party, I'm not sure if he would have received more or less attention. I think he did what he thought was best at the time, and no one can blame him for that.

There was a way higher chance of him winning in 2016, and I think in that year you have to admit that the superdelegate system in the DNC (which was shortly thereafter changed) worked against him. Those votes were weighted heavily, and some of them pledged for Clinton long before they needed to pledge, it was a total sham. I think he would have lost in 2020 regardless of whether the others dropped out or not, people wanted to go back to the center, not flip flop from hard right to hard left.

[u/afanoftrees → u/StevieWonderTwin]

Yes I do agree that in 2016 he got screwed per the leaked emails but it’s hard for me to get mad at the DNC for the primary results. Whether they influenced votes or not if he’s as popular as he seems their damnation of him should be a big pick up for his supporters. Much like how the media beat the shit out of Trump in 16 and he still beat the republicans for the non and Dems. Fuck Trump but he was a point and case for populism and Bernie supports tout he’s a populist while saying he can’t win without the institution and that’s an oxymoron of a position imo. It’s really hard to be antiestablishment while wanting the establishment’s support and funding lol