@JimmyB To be fair, many US citizens also do not understand how the US political system works. And many of them are on on the fediverse spreading uninformed Hot Takes.

The base of the Democratic Party is Black voters. Sanders thought that class-first politics would carry him through, but in the US appealing to class has been a tool of racist demogogues as well as socialists.

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@JimmyB Your bio says you are a Brit. It's clear you do not understand how US presidential nominating contests actually work, or you would already know that while Sanders won state primaries in '16 and '20, he did not "win the popular vote" because he never advanced to the point where people not already registered as or aligned with Dems would be voting for him. Stanning a politico from overseas is weird. Don't do that.

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@nazokiyoubinbou The international relations corollary to Murc's Law is "actually, only the CIA has agency." A lot of people who profess to hate the US cannot imagine a world without the US at its center. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@nazokiyoubinbou The bloggers at Lawyers Guns & Money came up with "Murc's Law" a couple presidents ago: only Dems have agency, the GOP is just like the weather. If the GOP does something shitty, it must be that Dems failed to stop them or somehow made them do it. A lot of folks on here genuinely believe this. So the fact of Trump doing an illegal war that no one wants and Dems actually cannot stop requires some reframing.

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