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Originally posted by Marvin
And this is literally one person's opinion. He's still up by 76% in the polls there. Why should it matter how much money he's given to them anyway? 
Not only that but he's still polling better against the Republicans than Hillary |
because elections big and small cost money. The Koch brothers and others are funneling millions upon millions of dollars into local and state races and changing the trajectory of state legislatures and state laws + stomping out new Democratic talent (at the smaller local levels) before it has the chance to mature and blossom into more national leaders.
how do you not see the importance of this
this is literally baffling. You realize that one day, Bernie will die? And that there are currently VERY few other viable Democratic leaders who could amass any type of nation wide influence or even statewide influence? Nancy Pelosi is in her 70s or 80s. Feinstein is retiring. Harry Reid is retiring. After Schumer, Warren, Gillibrand, and maybe Cory Booker, who else is there for the Democrats?
The Republicans literally have 30 current governors, even more former governors, and hundreds of local officials that will eventually fight amongst themselves to rise up in the ranks and continue feeding the Republican leadership with experienced lawmakers and politicians.
What do the Democrats have? An old man from Vermont who thinks the revolution will come because he says it will? Who wrote about fantasy rape in his late 20s and supported the communist take over of Cuba and the Sandistas + honeymooned in the Soviet Union?
Is this the dude we expect to win back purple states and make inroads in the deep-red South?
