Yes but you must also recognize that the primary system itself is flawed. That’s like saying Trump won the last election without understanding the nuance as to why. Did he win? Sort of but only skewing the way votes were counted significantly. I also recognize that voting for primaries isn’t nearly as well done. People are not nearly as informed about primaries. If you can’t address systemic issues then history will repeat itself every time.
Votes were counted according to the rules in place before the election started. That is true for both of the primaries Sanders ran in, and the actual elections.
You can certainly argue that there are better electoral systems than what the U.S. has with it’s ‘first-past-the-post, winner-takes-all’, and I’ll even agree with you. (We might disagree on what the best system that could replace it is, but that’s an entirely different discussion.)
You can also argue that voter suppression, and disenfranchisement is a huge problem that needs to be addressed. But that’s not what you chose as your ‘objection’, so we won’t go there.
Denying the reality of the vote, and pretending that you ‘won’ because you wanted to use a different set of rules than was in place is just stupid.
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u/DM_Voice Jan 31 '25
Look. I wanted Bernie as the candidate, too. But he just never pulled the numbers in the primaries needed to get the nomination.
It wasn’t “corrupt bullshit”. He just didn’t win.