For decades, Bernie Sanders has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.
I’m kind of with you. Bernie made every extreme idea he had unpalatable and became a steam valve for people who believed him. He wasn’t able to get anything done. He was weaponized incompetence wielded by the right to say well crazy Bernie thinks x y and z so let’s definitely not do any of that. Even though by the end of his career x y and z were like barely center left. I’ve still got a Bernie sticker on my car, but it’s faded af
I’m kind of with you. Bernie made every extreme idea he had unpalatable and became a steam valve for people who believed him. He wasn’t able to get anything done. He was weaponized incompetence wielded by the right to say well crazy Bernie thinks x y and z so let’s definitely not do any of that. Even though by the end of his career x y and z were like barely center left. I’ve still got a Bernie sticker on my car, but it’s faded af