This is not to debate her other merits or flaws as a politician or a human being, but if it's really important to you right now that you win a big election you should be hiring people who have won elections
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yes. And if it's really important to you right now to build a movement, you should be hiring people who are good at that. Implementing Bernie's agenda will take more than just winning a big election.
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Cool, then people should be happy that he made the necessary sacrifice of the election for the health of the movement rather than flipping a shit over it
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You can want to win the election AND build the movement at the same time. Getting Trump re-elected by nominating Biden is not a "necessary sacrifice", it's foolishness fueled by the ideological rigidity of the don't-upset-our-corporate-sponsors Democratic establishment.
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Apparently you can't win the election and build the movement at the same time, if you're excusing the huge missteps the campaign made in the name of movement building
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Uhhh I just named one, which is putting together an election team that has no history of winning elections
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Assuming that Nina Turner will be popular with Black voters in the South because she's popular on Twitter
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I think it's good to select people based on their political positions, not just on their popularity or ability to get votes. That's a sign of integrity, not a "huge misstep". In SC, I think the Clyburn endorsement played a big role. The DNC establishment had a big bazooka there.
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Okay, well, you sacrificed a chance at winning the election for your perception of integrity, congratulations Have fun building a movement off of that
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Jfc if a candidate demonstrates they don't have any sense of competence or appropriateness for a job beyond ideological loyalty that's itself a really big red flag for being a terrible president
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I don't think competence at winning elections is necessarily the same thing as competence at being president. Anyway, if you ask me, Biden is not more competent in any way. He's just a safer choice for the apparatchiks who depend on corporate money.
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The general concept of being a competent leader requires being able to work with people for reasons other than them being personally devoted to you
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