The thing is for the average politically uninformed person the first two attitudes look like they're opposed to each other If you really are the voice of the people shouldn't you already have crushing majorities It's only inside the bubble they come together into one narrative
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And it's hard to get just how insane "The more it seems like people hate me, the more I'm really beloved, because the media establishment exists to crush true populism" sounds to anyone not already baptized into the conspiracy mindset
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But yeah for a certain class of people they were committed to the 30% Strategy because it was the only way to validate their own narrative "Trump proved that all Normal Regular Folk hate the Democratic Party so the ONLY WAY for a D to ever win again is to be hated by the Party"
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"Therefore squeaking through a D candidate who actually lost the D primary in a contested convention is not only acceptable, it's NECESSARY Anyone who wins a majority of Democrats is doomed because actual Democrats are scum hated by all Decent Normal Volk I mean Folk"
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to be fair Bernie also hired some Vorthoses who cared more about lore than about winning
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also you got Timmy and Johnny backwards
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So... I'm going to need to take just a moment to say I was not expecting a Magic: The Gathering reference in this and dang if it doesn't work.
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it has become glaringly apparent that the 2016 update did not, in fact, nerf the obama card, and certainly not in the primary metagame
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Am Spike, experience results of people who are convinced they could get what they want from WOTC and/or the world at large if I just stopped aggrieving them by existing and died finding this out constantly, can confirm
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