I 100% did not. That’s why my comment was in the form of a question. Because I couldn’t, and still can’t, imagine what a primary 10 years ago has to say about our current landscape that wouldn’t be better understood through recent campaigns like Mamdani’s, el-Sayed’s, and pre-scandal Platner’s. Or if we need to examine losses, any of the times when the progressive got boxed out. Bernie had an entire second run between now and then.
The reason they frame it with Bernie is not because Bernie’s run is more demonstrative of important current dynamics, it’s because it’s the progressive lost Lost Cause that will get clicks. Or in my case, not get clicks because literally everything that needs to be said about that election has already been said. Because it was 10 fucking years ago and people have been talking about it repeatedly for a literal decade.
The amount of pride this is said with is what’s infuriating. The answers were right there, but you couldn’t be fucking bothered.
If you had opened up the article and taken 20 seconds to scan, you would have gotten enough answer to continue reading. Or not, whatever, but you wouldn’t’ve made a stupid comment in the thread, at least.
You want the full picture of how our political landscape came to be what it is today? You’re gonna have to start looking far back beyond 10 years ago my friend. No election cycle is only a 4 to 8 year bubble.
I 100% did not. That’s why my comment was in the form of a question. Because I couldn’t, and still can’t, imagine what a primary 10 years ago has to say about our current landscape that wouldn’t be better understood through recent campaigns like Mamdani’s, el-Sayed’s, and pre-scandal Platner’s. Or if we need to examine losses, any of the times when the progressive got boxed out. Bernie had an entire second run between now and then.
The reason they frame it with Bernie is not because Bernie’s run is more demonstrative of important current dynamics, it’s because it’s the progressive lost Lost Cause that will get clicks. Or in my case, not get clicks because literally everything that needs to be said about that election has already been said. Because it was 10 fucking years ago and people have been talking about it repeatedly for a literal decade.
The amount of pride this is said with is what’s infuriating. The answers were right there, but you couldn’t be fucking bothered.
If you had opened up the article and taken 20 seconds to scan, you would have gotten enough answer to continue reading. Or not, whatever, but you wouldn’t’ve made a stupid comment in the thread, at least.
You want the full picture of how our political landscape came to be what it is today? You’re gonna have to start looking far back beyond 10 years ago my friend. No election cycle is only a 4 to 8 year bubble.