Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for President
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Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

I hate that this is the debate we’re having now

I also hate that I’m feeding into the NYT’s lazy and transparent attempt to undo their previous partisanship with new opposite partisanship like those two things cancel out and add up to journalism

But what the hell, if that’s where we’re at, this is a relevant data point about the landscape

  • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
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    4 months ago

    Hey, quick question:

    • There are 229 accounts in Lemmy that have used the phrase “Democratic Party” more than once in the last 6 months or so.
    • There are 188 that have used the phrase “Republican Party” more than once.
    • There are 25 that have used the phrase “Democrat Party” more than once

    So that does kind of make sense… “Democrat Party” is something I pretty much never hear outside of conservative circles. In most of the left it’s un heard of. It always sounds really weird to me and I don’t think it would ever occur to me to use it. It’s not surprising that it’s so rare to hear it on Lemmy.

    So what I’m wondering is why there’s so much overlap between the users who do use that very unusual phrasing and the ones who are SUPER left. Like really left. Like so left that they’re mad at Joe Biden and even Bernie SANDERS isn’t left enough for them, and they want people not to support those people. Because of course they’re not left enough.

    Any thoughts on it? You’re on that list, both the using that phrase part and the being super left part. Can you remember where in your reading you might have picked up that phrasing and started using it?