‘It will be the end of democracy’: Bernie Sanders on what happens if Trump wins – and how to stop him

In the past few elections, voting feels more like a hostage situation than exercising my right to making a “choice”. This country is absolutely fucked if Trump is elected again.

Don't forget, Sanders is the only person Trump has ever admitted he's afraid of.

Is there a real plan to shore up our "democracy" if the Democrats win this election? What is Biden going to do next term that he didn't do this term?

I feel like people are so fixated on Trump that they can't see past him. Trump is a giant, clown-shaped piece of shit-- absolutely. How does the opposing party fail at politics so hard that someone like Trump ever even had a shot?

MUST WATCH: Bernie Sanders - Why People Vote For Trump

https://youtu.be/FSuaxqZLNwE

He's 100% right on this.

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If trump wins and America can't defeat his senile version of fascism, then it's already on the death bed waiting for the next republican to take power...

trump is the best authoritarian we're going to get, he's easy mode, the republicans will get someone worse, someone who has the ability to think beyond his next shit.

It's not going to get better only worse...

Sanders is one of the only politicians unworthy of the guillotine.

Citizens United needs to be removed.

The massive polarisation in the media needs to be addressed and the outright blatant lies told by the Rightwing goons needs to be legally stopped. ‘Free Speech’ my ass. They need to be labelled ‘opinion’ or ‘entertainment’ or something other than pretending to be ‘fair’ or ‘news’.

I was proud to vote for Bernie in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, but I bit the bullet and phone banked for Biden even though he was far from my first choice. There's way too much at stake here.

We don't have much of a democracy as things stand considering the average person doesn't influence policy lol. If all hope is on Biden clutching it out then we better brace for the end. Dems had 4 years to plan ahead.

Funny how many comments just went poof! Gone! So this place is basically /r/politics now? Mods smoking out every opinion they don't like?

Funny thing is, the deleted comments were from liberals, not raging conservatives spewing bile and lies. Must not have passed the purity test.

By supporting a different Republican, how hard is it? In many states you can even vote in the primary of a party you're not part of, people think it's beneath them to pick a candidate of the party they dislike whose agenda is least-unlikable. There's no law preventing you from switching parties on a whim.

I like the insinuation that the US is an actual "democracy" lmao

I know you mrrrkns absolutely hate it when furriners' talk about your politics, but it saddens me to see a fellow democracy in such a state. Both these guys are demented old f&@ks! These are the best candidates your democratic system can give you? Really? I know we Aussies have plenty to cringe about, but jeez!

Cue*: “this is the most important election of our lifetime”

Sanders looks like Noam Chomsky in this picture.

If we have to keep selecting between 2 grades of evil there is no democracy.

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There's an easy way to stop him, but all the psychos with guns are on the other side.

As his position on the Israel-Gaza war threatens to upset his support

In the bi-line. I don't think these people know who Bernies supporters are.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

There are posters from different stages in his political life, including an inevitable “Feel the Bern” placard and a photograph from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, which mayor Sanders twinned Burlington with during Ronald Reagan’s Contra war against the leftwing Sandinistas.

He also dedicates the book to his brother, Larry Sanders, who lives in Oxford, England, and is a former Green party councillor, and to his four children – one by his first wife, Deborah Shiling Messing, and three stepchildren, who are Jane’s but whom he considers his own – as well as to those seven grandchildren.

With his index finger jabbing as though pointing to an invisible crowd, he tells me that before the pandemic three multibillionaires (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett) owned more between them than the combined wealth of the 160 million Americans who make up the bottom half of society.

More than 400 of his former staffers signed an open letter imploring him to shift his position; one of them, his 2020 campaign spokesperson, Briahna Joy Gray, tweeted “biggest political disappointment of our generation” in response to an interview in which Sanders explained his view.

For all his talk of revolution, for all his tax-the-rich bills and declarations of radical populism, a large part of the Sanders creed is nothing more nor less than an appeal for the basic fundamentals of life – health, housing, a living wage, education – that are taken for granted by all other developed nations.

Is there a danger many young Americans and voters of colour who formed a critical part of the coalition that elected Biden – and defeated Trump – in 2020 will look at the rematch of the same two candidates in November, decide they aren’t inspired by either, and stay at home?

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Bernie is right about why people vote for Trump, he's wrong that it will be the end of democracy. America has never had a democracy, it's had an electoral college with gerrymandering and 2 senators per state.

They've been saying this every election. This line is the norm now. There never was much of a democracy.

Many socialist’s heads just exploded in confusion.

VOTE DEMOCRAT OR WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!

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It will be the end of democracy. Just like last time. Remember when democracy died?

lmao schizophrenic

That’s what they said last time.

This literally every.single.election.fuck off with this whole thing.

Bernie wants to continue to support israel.

And Bernie refuses to acknowledge israel commits Genocide.

His words ring hollow.

Watch this pathetic man dance around the subject of a Genocide on two million people

Oh brother... they say the same thing every time a Republican becomes President....if Trump becomes President, he'll be exactly like he was before. This is just more fearmongering from the Left.

If Trump wins what? An election?