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      If they did that, Trump would have won the general…just like he did against Hillary. But, they didn’t have to. They managed to successfully convince enough progressives that they could, that people just sat down and stopped fighting.

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        They managed to successfully convince enough progressives that they could, that people just sat down and stopped fighting

        Weird way to say got all but the other progressive candidate to drop out, get behind Biden and have the remaining progressive candidate start attacking Bernie

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          Ummm, yeah. You know that if enough people still showed up to vote, none of that would have mattered, right? This is how they convince you to give up. They play their games and brag that they’ve already won, and that nothing you do is going to make any difference…and if enough people believe them and give up…it becomes true. They have the media on their side to create a narrative. But that narrative only holds, if people buy into it. If you say “fuck that” and go vote anyway, and everyone else does the same…that narrative falls apart.

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            Not really. Dnc could pull another trick like the Iowa app fuck up. Or as others have pointed out they don’t even need to follow how voters in the primary or cacuses pick.

            I’m confused are you arguing the dnc doesn’t control who they put on the ticket or that it’s the voters fault for how presidential primaries go when it may not even matter by the time they get the opportunity to vote?