Warren was always the poison pill to split progressives in the primaries and force the mainstream candidate to become Hillary. When Warren backed out and Bernie still surged ahead, Michael Bloomberg paid $500M to run an interference campaign built on obnoxious memes for a weekend on order to derail the news and momentum Bernie was gaining.
There is a concerted, focused effort by internal people of the D party that are helping push a business facing conservative narrative into both parties and Bernie seriously causes fear that citizens might get the power back from big money. Hillary was an terrible candidate pitched by arrogant people hoping to give the masses only bad choices. If an actual good choice ran, it would undermine the democracy killing dead lock caused by voting for the lesser of two evils. No progressive will ever get a chance because boomers have poisoned America to be greedy, self centered, and uncaring.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Still think she was just a “useful idiot” in that primary.
As soon as she brought on Clinton’s campaign people, she stopped promoting herself and focused solely on tearing Bernie down.
I don’t know if she was dumb enough to think it would work, or if she took one of those deals and was going to get a cabinet position if Clinton won.
But there was big shift in her campaign and even her personal behavior out of nowhere, something happened for that big of a change.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 months ago
She 100% sold out to Clinton. The why of it is between Warren and Clinton, and we’ll probably never know.