u.s. debt is larger then the entire u.s. economy
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bonus:
NEVER let Republicans pretend to care about "fiscal responsibility" ever again.
NEVER argue or give Republicans any benefit of the doubt ever again. If someone says they're Republican you should immediately shut them out of your life.
I can't tell if your joking. The average Republican is pretty much the same as the average Democrat. I believe shifting blame onto a stereotype of the other party is some sort of Freudian transferance.
I disagree, the average Democrat at least pretends to care, the average Republican would happily put the boot to your neck if you're an out group.
It’s the difference between a covert narcissism that has so effectively camouflaged itself that one might not even be conscious of their own condition vs. an overt form that has become so effectively accepted into one’s psyche that whatever innate personality that may have been there before succumbing will have ended up so minimized or sidelined that it may never be able to exert any effect on one’s words/actions/ideas ever again, and the result is the more uniform/typical set of behaviors/actions, thought patterns/perspectives, and/or language that they employ to describe their experiences/beliefs.
Similar in the narcissism aspect but very different manifestations (My current interpretation)
They are absolutely not, you are either extremely dumb or have been living under a rock your whole life. It's not even a "recent time should have made you realise it", right wing politics have been objectively bad for way longer than anyone alive at the moment (I admit that I don't know the full history of the left/right political climate, so I'm not gonna say that what the general idea of right wing politics is has always been bad, I realised I need to learn more about it and will do so).
It's literally right wing "we want to control people and hate anyone who is different" vs left wing "we just want everyone, independent on their gender, skin color, where they're from, economical status etc. to be ok". Current American Republicans vs Democrats is not even close to a good scale of "right vs left" and it's not even a good scale and representation of historical American Republicans vs Democrats, it's all so fucked.
They absolutely are, you are extremely silly
Look at results of their leadership over decades, don't listen to what they claim.
Democrats say they are the labor party... yet labor continues to collapse under their leadership for decades.
Republicans say they are for smaller government... yet the government continues to bloat under their leadership for decades.
When the RESULTS are the same, they are effectively the same, in spite of your bloviating. Results prove they are bOtH anti-labor and rapidly expansive government.
The Democrats are right-wing. They're the party of "nothing will fundamentally change". They don't care about whether or not you're okay, unless you're part of the 1%.
This is what people said in 1992. And in 2008. Guess what happened
he bankrupted multiple casinos, why not multiple countries?
Why not the same country multiple times?
Porqé nos los dos?
He has stated recently that the "global economy is just a big casino".
Considering his history with those, I interpreted that as a threat.
The casinos were just to launder money. They didn't need to be profitable.
And a big shout-out to the big brains who voted third-party or chose not to vote Kamala for 'lol reasons'. You did that, too, take a bow!
Username is accurate.
Where are all these stickers at the gas pumps now that donny the diddler fucked things up?
Also worth noting just how "big brained" he is...if I'm not mistaken this picture is from when we were having a solar eclipse and he looked straight into the sun.
You should all go and put them back up:
Vote Donald, low gas prices and no forever wars! (I'll release the Epstein files and resolve the Ukraine war in 24h!!). No old presidents!!
You should hold him accountable. Not go with the news cycle.
These are rookie numbers, we need to pump those numbers
Not really. Debt to GDP was alredy over 100% when he took office. He did make it worse but it's not like it wasn't fault of every president since multiple decades
I love how doge cut funding to sooooo many things and yet the debt is higher than ever. They cut USAID. they kicked people off welfare. They cut people off Medicaid etc. and yet the debt is higher than ever. Fuck you dumpy and co
doge was designed to remove all investigations to musk,+ allow russia to access database and security right after.
Yeah it was a sellout of usa information. And doge wasn't the only one doing it.
Doge delayed my dad's cancer screening from being processed and he died.
He was in the emergency room in early stage four when they called him to say they finally looked at the scans. If he'd received treatment when the cancer was first detected he would have had a pretty good shot at survival.
I'm sorry :( They have a lot of blood on their hands. the entire regime :/
I'm so sorry to hear this.
the Fart of the deal...
Shart of the deal
Never trust a shart
He's bankrupting the country like he bankrupted all his other businesses.
Guys, it'll trickle down any second now.
The debt is trickling down. Every dollar you give as taxes goes towards that debt and war machine. Since rich don't pay taxes all the debt payment is yours.
Even if you don't pay income taxes; sales tax, property tax, tariff is a payment towards the debt.
Get an umbrella, you know what is trickling down...
Unfortunately, the only part that trickles down is the bankruptcy part.
We were already bankrupt long before he took office.
How did Biden let this happen?
Thanks Obama.
Technically correct. We hit 100% debt/GDP ratio in 2012. This headline is intended to manipulate you into thinking something that happened over a decade ago just happened.
We actually crossed 125% under Trump in 2020.
Shh. Democrats are perfect and anyone who suggests otherwise is a Russian.
Absolutely nobody is perfect and still almost everyone would be better as president than trump or his buddies.
Yes.
NO ONE SAID TRUMP WAS BETTER.
You never want democrats to do anything but get worse and lose.
I'm not American. I don't really care about the broken two party rubbish they have.
I just want America to stop messing up so many things that make the whole world worse than it already is.
So do I. But we can't do that with one fascist party and one party that keeps appeasing fascists and losing.
So "at least they're second worst to trump now never criticize them" isn't helpful.
They're a tag team, not opponents.
I agree.
I still don't know how you came to the conclusion that I cared about the Democratic party.
Trum is measurably the worst and as a first step I would prefer anything less horrible.
Because hoping for a sudden true and proper party to emerge from nothing is pointless wishful thinking
I still don’t know how you came to the conclusion that I cared about the democratic party.
Because "trump is worse!" is unhelpful. He was worse when harris was running. He was worse when clinton was running. In both cases, we got stuck with a candidate who wasn't any good, but was at least second worst to trump.
In both cases, second worst wasn't good enough to win, and no amount of "but trump is worse!" changed that. If we want to beat fascism, second worst to fascism by as narrow a margin as possible can't get us there.
And taking advantage of trump being a fascist to force fash-lite on us lost. Twice.
So what can get you there? Because from the outside it appears the main reason Trump won was because of people not voting for Dems precisely because of this "they're barely better" attitude.
If I have to vote whether to get punched or stabbed I'm not going to avoid voting just because they're both bad and just hope everything works out and then maybe get stabbed anyway.
Whatever magical solution you believe in can be attempted under both governments. So what possible reason is there to attempt it under worse circumstances?
So what can get you there?
Better candidates. Honest primaries.
Because from the outside it appears the main reason Trump won was because of people not voting for Dems precisely because of this “they’re barely better” attitude.
Yeah, everyone should refuse to accept the reality that democrats are second worst. Thet they keep getting worse. That they support genocide and refused to stop.
You got the genocide you dearly love. Nothing else will ever matter to you.
Democrats lost because they CHOSE to lose over telling netanyahu no.
Second worst is not enough to win. You can hate that reality all you want, but it's still the reality. Enjoy your genocide. Not that I have to encourage you.
Democrats vote for the bills but are innocent
Democrats don't fix it when in office but are still innocent
And if you have a memory longer than a good fish you're a paid actor.
It wasnt even... It was post 2008 stimulus.
If only Bill could have focused on something other than blowjobs.
When you're borrowing money to service the debt, things can get spicy
HOW is this Possible? We ELIMINATED all of my VA Benefits, my Child's Education and School Lunch, SNAP Benefits, Healthcare and Infrastructure Funding! SURELY that gives us Enough Money for Billionaire Tax Breaks and Wars?
All those programs? A drop in the war bucket. We could have spent MORE on those programs healthcare and infrastructure, kept the tax breaks for billionaires and still have a bigger war bucket than the next few countries on the list.
The debt is high as balls of course, but really there is no specific significance to reaching the level of the GDP of one year. You could just as well say it has reached 400% of the quarterly GDP or 33% of the three year GDP.
Personally I'm more worried about concrete numbers like the cost of servicing the debt yearly. That has reached 17% of your yearly budget by now.
A metric a lot of things experts tend to rely on is the debt-to-GDP ratio. The idea being that you can have an insane debt, but if your economic output is also insane, you'll be able to pay it off easier than a lesser economy. The US' is currently at 120%-ish as of earlier this year. Notable examples to pull from seem to be Greece, and how they defaulted from their debt spiral after failing a repayment (ratio: 180%), and Japan, which I believe currently holds the largest Debt-to-GDP ratio (238%-ish).
Edit: interjecting my thoughts that nobody asked for, is that debt seems like a weird unknown in the economic media I see. Like, growing a significant debt is bad, but it oftentimes is used on infrastructure that you can't just un-build, like what you can with a debt. When a country that did so defaults, I know there's studies into it, but it almost seems terribly underreported on. So much so that I can't say I'd know how things will unfold, especially with an economy of the US' importance.
Edit: also yeah, I'm saying the included image/article/whatever in the post is wrong. We surpassed that in 2013.
You can have insane debt. But if your economic output is also insane, you are insane.
Every American, babies to retire owe like $100.000 (napkin math, IIRC it's even more) if you split up the debt.
I'd start thinking about that if I were an economist over there. Or a politician. Someone is going to have a huge, huuge, leverage over the usa til you fix that.
New Mission Objective: SURVIVE
I've been relistening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks, so you'll have to forgive me...
"NEW ACHEIVEMENT! Your country's debts now exceeds every single dime of annual production! Not only that, but its government is practically racing towards a full blown fascist dictatorship. Reward... No rewards for broke opressed bitches!"
😁link plz?
https://www.audible.com/pd/B08V8B2CGV?source_code=ASSOR150021921000O
Thanks!
Is it really a mission objective when it is the main ploy to the plot. Just keep breathing and shitting.
New Mission Objective: Love yourself
Its trumps debt. Every cent of it should come from his accounts
Every cent should come from his voters and donor's accounts.
Did you even say thank you?
I still think the funniest thing about the Vance edits is that they look more normal than the real thing. Don't know how or why but the fucker lost the phenotype roulette and just looks surreal.
Truth, I actually didn't recognize him in the regular photos that popped up looking for this meme.
I think I figured it out, his head or at least face is too babyish. I don't know if it's because he's had work done or if he is just unlucky but his eyes up are normal ish but below his eyes are weirdly rounded. The edits often unify the rounding of his face resulting in him not looking so weird.
Though his head shape as a whole is kinda off regardless I think it's the weird assymetrical nature of his face that causes the surreal look.
This is where you clap
Billionaires took all the money. I suppose that's why they're billionaires.
Nah they all worked really hard for 68.000 years.
I am so sick of the fiscally irresponsible Demonrats running up our national debt. If only they could follow the fiscally conservative Republisaint's example and cut all those pesky welfare programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Imagine if we took all that wasted money and gave it to wealthy to manage. Trickledown only works if we send a tidal wave of money upwards. So much money that some invariably trickles down to the undeserving poors.
We just have to switch to a regressive national 10% sales tax (with exceptions for large ticket item purchases that only wealthy people can make of course) we could have our Demonrat debt problem solved within a couple of years.
You forgot your /s
Curious to see if it's gonna impact the USA credit ratings
"The Art of the Steal" now available in all banks of the US of A.
It's simple, really. Trump has foreseen all of the economic mistakes the next democrat president will make and is already fixing them, before they even happen. Some of you should be a little more grateful.
This is intentional. Crash the economy, then use that as an excuse to shutter every social program and public good. In ride the corporations on their white horse to offer us those same services, for a price. Can't afford the new prices for using the highway, fire protection, your kid's school? No problem, just sign here and your great-grandkids will still be down your debt.
This is the little asterisk next to "republicans was small government*"
*cut the government agencies who exist to work within a budget and replace them with private companies who exist solely to generate profit...that they use to pay us.
This is also when they buy everything for minimal prices, increasing their own equity!
I was going to make some joke, but instead I’m just going to talk about being heartbroken.
Because if, by some miracle, we get more anti-establishment elected officials in 2028, their policies would most assuredly destroy the country. Not because those policies are bad, but because the safety nets that would have absorbed the market shock were destroyed by this administration.
better now then the future, just like they would have been better even earlier, but thems the breaks
The entire notion that an entity which possesses the sole authority to issue the currency in which its budgets and accounts are denominated, can in any way be legitimately in a level of ‘debt’ it in any way could be mistaken as problematic, is fundamentally detached from reality.
The illusion of scarcity needs to be maintained. Dollars are only worth something because the entire world believes they're worth trading for good and services. The only reason the U.S. government collects taxes and "borrows" money is to maintain the illusion.
If the US Government just conjured up trillions of dollars to pay it's debts, the world economy would collapse. So the Federal Reserve has to do it slowly via Quantitative Easing.
The status quo only serves to entrench the current power structures. Economics is just as imaginary as any other organised religion, and as an antitheist I’d prefer to live within a system which can legitimately be mapped to reality.
The US congress already conjures every dollar out of thin air, it’s ‘debt’ is merely a poorly labelled finance construct, and the ‘deficit’ is merely the sum total of private sector account balances.
Religion is the opiate of the people, economics is their fentanyl.
Yeah, the current world economy is made up so that the USA can basically print more money and get away with it.
The house we bought is more than 3x our annual income, and our budget works ok so I don't think the absolute size of it is the problem, the problem is more that it's not being paid off, and that the money spent went into the pockets of the super-rich, and into bombs and all sorts of other counter-productive purchases.
Just imagine how bad it would be if the Warmonger Kamala was in power!!!1
spoiler
/s, just in case
Centrists were willing to accept a second trump term as long as it meant never saying no to netanyahu.
I think you got it backwards. There was a lot of "she's not threatening to send the army against Israel, therefore - in protest - I will [vote for Trump]/[abstain from voting]".
I know I don't. You were warned that genocide was a losing issue. Every single time, centrists looked at people begging them to stop selling weapons unconditionally and were like "Russian! Trumpist! Other Thought-Terminating Cliche!"
You chose to support genocide. You chose to lose rather than stop. So quit pretending that you're not getting the only thing any centrist has ever wanted just because trump is carrying out your only policy for you.
You won when we didn't have a primary.
See, one of the issues with today's discourse is the extreme tribalism involved. "If you're not with me, you're against me", "if you don't agree with my side's points, clearly you're from the other side".
I'm not even from the US, dude. I didn't support genocide, I didn't choose anything, I'm not pretending, etc., etc.
On top of that:
You were warned that genocide was a losing issue. Every single time, centrists looked at people begging them to stop selling weapons unconditionally and were like “Russian! Trumpist! Other Thought-Terminating Cliche!”
This is 100% nonsense. Trump was always going to be Israel's lap dog, and Putin would want nothing more than more chaos in the Middle East, so this whole argument is invalid.
Also, notice how the actual genocide started after Biden's term was finished.
That's the other problem with you people - you're so blinded by single-issues, that you have no clue what's actually going on. Instead of having a leader who maybe, potentially, probably didn't pressure Netanyahu to fuck off from Gaza, you got a leader who not only supported him in that, but also suggested that the whole of Gaza should be flattened and made into a vacation resort, while also bringing pain and suffering to people all across the world.
You dug your heels in on the Gaza issue because around 70k people died there? Well, now you get to eat the pie flavoured with "9.4 million deaths by 2030" due to USAID cuts.
This is 100% nonsense. Trump was always going to be Israel’s lap dog,
There was no non-lapdog running.
Instead of having a leader who maybe, potentially, probably didn’t pressure Netanyahu to fuck off from Gaza
No such candidate was on the ballot.
You dug your heels in on the Gaza issue because around 70k people died there? Well, now you get to eat the pie flavoured with “9.4 million deaths by 2030” due to USAID cuts.
I knew your genocidal shit would lose to the other genocidal shit. Plenty of people on the left tried to warn democrats to for the love of god show some movement on your only issue so they wouldn't lose.
They preferred losing.
Congratulations, you got the only thing you wanted. You got genocide. Stop whining that people don't love it as much as you do.
OK, this conversation is done. You're in your own little world where I'm somehow taking a side, or responsible, for the US politics. You just keep assuming stuff about me, even when I told you you're wrong. Continuing this is pointless.
You just keep assuming stuff about me, even when I told you you’re wrong.
First time? Try getting called a Russian for a solid year for saying that democrats have no business supporting genocide.
At least nobody voted for that evil socialist Jill Stein. She would've turned the US into Cuba and put people into FEMA camps!
*laughs in MMT
Hate to brake it to you guys but that threshold was crossed in like 2012. This is work of every single president since 90s. Not just Trump
The context being that debt has hit 100% of GDP during major shocks to the system: WWII, GFC, COVID and what?
It hit 100% in 2012 under Obama after post 2008 spending spree. It went up way more than under Trump COVID spending spree.
Edit: The only exception since 90s was Clinton administration
You’re naming the presidents when these happened, and we can tie that to the crises being addressed — Obama and GFC, Trump and COVID. What about now?
Also, let’s just say since 2012. Because the 90s don’t count in this; Clinton ran budget surpluses
Obama and GFC
Should I remind you who spent 700 BILLION DOLLARS on bailing out banks? Do you know how much money is this? Whole artemis project is like 100 billion so far. For 700B you could send people to mars back and forth and you'd still have a spare change after.
What about now?
What about now? There's always some shit going on to justify spending beyond the means.
I have prognosis: The debt will be ballooning out of control no matter the president democrat or republican until it reaches like 200-300% of GDP in 10-20y and then some random event causes whole thing to implode in global crisis that'll make great depression look like a child's play.
Should I remind you who spent 700 BILLION DOLLARS on bailing out banks?
Congress authorized $700 billion for TARP, signed into law by GWB in 2008. In 2010, Obama signed Dodd-Frank, which mainly introduced banking regulation meant to prevent a future crisis but also reduced the amount of money authorized to $475 billion. Four years later, the Treasury sold its last TARP assets, booking a $15.3 billion surplus over the lifetime of the program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
Much of the bank bailout actually made the treasury a profit. It was paid back.
Should I remind you who spent 700 BILLION DOLLARS on bailing out banks? Do you know how much money is this?
Yes, it's a significant chunk of how much we throw at the military every single year.
Spending spree, and all we got was:
Economic Recovery (Stimulus): The primary focus was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009), which aimed to boost the economy through infrastructure investment, job creation, and tax cuts.
Healthcare Reform: The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (2010) was a signature priority, designed to increase health insurance coverage.
Energy and Environment: Significant investments were made in clean energy, renewable energy, and energy efficiency programs, including the "smart grid".
Education: Funding was prioritized for education reforms, including student aid reform and bolstering K-12 education.
Infrastructure and Manufacturing: Initiatives like the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program focused on infrastructure, alongside tax incentives for domestic manufacturing.
Middle-Class Tax Relief: The administration enacted various tax breaks for small businesses, veterans, and workers to strengthen the middle class.
And the price was the future...
Absolute nonsense. Government debt has little real-world impact on future outcomes, at any level. The deliberate plundering and rigging, however ...
Absolute nonsense. Government debt has little real-world impact on future outcomes.
Yeah sure. Tell that to Greeks circa around 2013. Funny how that turned out for them
"Greece faced a sovereign debt crisis in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Widely known in the country as The Crisis (Greek: Η Κρίση, romanized: I Krísi), it led to impoverishment and loss of income and property, and forced the government to carry out a series of sudden reforms and austerity measures.[5][6] In all, the Greek economy suffered the longest recession of any advanced mixed economy to date and became the first developed country whose stock market was downgraded to that of an emerging market in 2013"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis
Thanks for proving the point that there was never any debt crisis in the United States
But here's the kicker...would the 2012 stuff have happened if....Bush's deregulation policies didn't lead to the collapse of wall street
What if collapse of wall street was punished instead of rewarded with bailouts? If I fuck up my business, do I deserve a bailout? Fuck no.
Is bonkers to see how many people are gong for this like it just happened, and seem to be fighting you on reality.
If only The FED would print more money and fix everything! Please save us, Fed, from the money
p.s. the fed are all bankers who work for private banking, before and after their fed "term".
Like fuck Trump, but the debt accumulates exponentially
I think they're pointing out how all political pundits will blame the deficit on whoever the next Democrat president is. The truth you just wrote won't be mentioned by any of them and all blame will be assigned to the next one.
Ahh, yes! The same happened with Pinochet!
Especially when you piss away billions on vanity projects, cut off revenue, and start multiple wars for your oil baron masters
I think that's the key. Obama increased the debt - to get out of the Great Recession. Trump increased the debt - to give billionaires and corporations huge tax cuts. Biden increased the debt - to stimulate growth in green industries and manufacturing. Trump increased the debt again - to give billionaires etc etc.
Just the idea that the yearly budget of the Pentagon is going to go from $800 billion pre-COVID to $1500 billion indicates the people are not a priority.
$1500 billion and it's still not enough to feed all soldiers lol. The vast amount of that money just straight up goes to the billionaires who hold stocks of armament comppanies or whatever.
Pushing massive tax cuts for the wealthy (and for regular citizens, but those ones had an expiration date attached) during a time of economic turmoil was certainly an interesting choice.
yeah but not by that much
As long as MAGA continues to run the USA, the failure(s) will grow exponentially.
… so far!
The debt is intentionally created. It is all fake. When you tax the rich, you can easily pay all of the debt. Actually, if you want to pay the debt, you can do it right away, because all debt is in us dollars. You can print it. No problem. The problem is, we are believing all these stupid lies about economy. The debt is taken from a citizen already, most of it is taken from the rich, tax them and that is it, all the debt is paid!
If only there were some helpful historical examples of printing more money to pay off debt and seeing how that might play out
You can't print more money to pay off debt.
Don't worry about it
then the entire u.s. economy....DID WHAT??!?
I blame the democrats for forcing Hilary on us instead of accepting Bernie, who was obviously the people’s choice for candidate, and then they did it again with Harris. 🤦♂️
Yes, obviously everything wrong with the country today is the fault of the Democrats. All of it.
Or is it both sides? I mean, both sides are equally bad, right?
/s if it isn't obvious
It's in the nature of the GOP to destroy everything they touch. But they would be completely powerless to act if the Democrats pulled their heads out of their asses.
"Blame" lies with the GOP, of course. But "Fault" is primarily with the Democrats.
obviously the people’s choice for candidate
The people voted for Clinton over Sanders by a double digit percentage margin. It wasn't even close.
For comparison, Obama actually lost the reported popular vote in the 2008 primaries, but this includes a Michigan race that he dropped out of because Michigan moved its primaries forward in violation of DNC rules. Excluding Michigan, Obama won the popular vote by a 0.1% margin, increasing to 0.4% with estimated votes in states that had caucuses instead.
did it again with Harris
Biden won the 2024 primary by a more than 80 percent margin.
The people's choice was clear in both instances. When Biden dropped out, the people's choice for a replacement wasn't clear, but there was no path to rerun the primary, so they had to pick somebody who was closest to what the people had voted for in order to get closest to the people's choice, which was a continuation of the Biden administration.
The people voted for Clinton over Sanders by a double digit percentage margin. It wasn't even close.
Okay, so they gave us Clinton by a double-digit percentage margin. That makes it worse, not better.
Biden won the 2024 primary by a more than 80 percent margin.
That's because he ran virtually unopposed. For example, my primary ballot only had two options: "Biden" and "uncommitted".
Can you imagine running in a race by yourself and still only getting 80%?
Okay, so they gave us Clinton by a double-digit percentage margin. That makes it worse, not better.
The DNC didn't give us that. The people did. Winkly's claim was that Sanders was the people's choice. The votes show that Clinton was actually the people's choice, by a wide margin.
For example, my primary ballot only had two options: "Biden" and "uncommitted".
The point remains that he was the people's choice. In races where he ran against only one other option like yours, the margin of victory was even larger. The DNC did not bar anybody from running in that primary.
Who do you claim was the people's choice, if not the candidate who got the most votes?
The DNC didn’t give us that. The people did.
Where did I say anything about the DNC?
Winkly’s claim was that Sanders was the people’s choice. The votes show that Clinton was actually the people’s choice, by a wide margin.
Which "the people" are you talking about? Sanders had much more support with "the people" (i.e. voters in general), but was unable to get that support from "the people" in the core of the Democratic Party (i.e. the folks who actually decide who the nominee is going to be).
Never let the Democrats argue that they vote based upon pragmatism when shit like this happens. The pragmatic choice would've been Sanders.
Which "the people" are you talking about? Sanders had much more support with "the people" (i.e. voters in general), but was unable to get that support from "the people" in the core of the Democratic Party (i.e. the folks who actually decide who the nominee is going to be).
The primary voters. They're not "the core of the Democratic Party." They're just regular voters. The people, if you will. The DNC decides who the nominee will be based on the votes of the people in the primaries. The people overwhelmingly voted for Clinton.
It wasn't even a majority of Democratic voters. Only 14% of them voted in the primary. It was a very, very small number of people who selected Clinton.
The ones who cared, voted. The ones who didn't care, didn't vote. That's how voting works.
If they wanted my vote, they should've nominated Bernie. That's how voting works.
If you wanted to vote for Sanders in the general election, you should have convinced other people to vote for Sanders in the primary. That's how primaries work.
Look, I'm more progressive than you are. I just happen to also know how things work.
It's sexist to assume that they only oppose her because of her gender.
Hillary and Kamala were both objectively shit candidates
-Sincerely, a non-sexist woman who would love to see a woman president.
(Also the DNC robbed Bernie)