Whats funny to me is this could be taken in two ways.
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Am I too un-USAmerican to understand this joke?
In the 2020 primaries, Bernie Sanders was rapidly gaining support. Based on the number of candidates and how they were splitting the vote, he stood the best chance of winning.
Then, the call went out. I'm not sure how else to describe it. All the competing candidates were in one day, and then most of them withdrew the next day and cleared the moderate field for Biden. It was a coordinated choice by a donor group or DNC or something that catapulted a mid popularity Biden to the top of the pack.
Hence the calls of 'DNC sabotaged Bernie'
The way I remember it Bernie didn’t have enough votes before everyone dropped out.
no, he had just won two primaries in a row. Everyone but Biden, Bernie, and Warren dropped out. Warren was just as beholden to the DNC as the rest of them, but she stayed in specifically to split the progressive vote, in order to catapult the flailing Biden into pole position. It was clear as day, a coordinated effort to stop Bernie from being the Democratic candidate.
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That's literally just politics. Apply the same logic to the recent french elections where competing left-wing candidates dropped out to not split the vote.
Nothing was stopping Bernie from making a deal with Amy and Pete to stay in the race to keep the centrist vote split
If it was biden making a deal then that's one thing. I don't think that's what happened. I think the DNC power players or donors said 'we don't want Bernie' and the rest of the group fell in line.
If that was the case then Buttigege would have just been threatend funding wise and wouldn't have needed to be offered a cabinet position, which only Biden had the power to give.
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Thank you. Seems like the DNC brought upon Trump by themselves.
OP could've added that context to the comic. We don't all follow the news from abroad.
He kinda got fucked in 2016 when the DNC was all Vote for Hillary or lose your funding
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Liberals still hating on Bernie supporters and refusing to accept the idea that voters wanted a shake up of the system, rather than a female version of the status quo establishment left?
...so now we're stuck with a right wing shake up to the system instead.
They’re going to keep pissing on others like this and continue to be surprised when their candidates don’t get elected. It will always be someone else’s fault.
If people won’t vote in their own best interest we get facsism.