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Appreciate your efforts, we have lots of work left to do as a nation. Don't give up, every election cycle the demographics shift even further [1] [2] due to younger cohorts aging into voting rights and older cohorts aging out.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/20/a-wider-par...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/11/25/u-s-public-vi...

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I am far from giving up, but, i'm also licking my wounds at the moment.

Following politics right now is thoroughly disheartening; it does nothing to help my day to day, nor does it really affect it.

Get rested and get ready, under either Trump or Biden, the level of unrest and discontent will be much higher than it was. We will win eventually, but it will look like a slow incremental climb with sudden set backs, followed by bursts of energy and further set backs and crises, until suddenly and shockingly we take power. That's how it always goes.

Violence including riots and political assassinations have massively decreased from the 1960s and 1970s and overall life satisfaction has increased. I realize a revolutionary tone is in the current zeitgeist but it's unlikely to persist if Biden wins. Bernie's hilariously one sided defeat is perhaps the best indicator that most people don't agree with a radical future for the US.

Bernie’s defeat is an indicator that the Democratic Party has no appetite for someone who isn’t an insider, and older voters prefer the status quo. This is clear from exit polls, and is no surprise. Progress occurs one funeral at a time, some people will never change their belief and value systems.

One needs only to look back at the last 100 years of the United States both to see how far we’ve come and far we have to go.

I wouldn't call getting 1000 delegates, winning several states, earning a sizable chunk of the popular vote and a clear 2nd place a "hilariously one sided defeat"

If more democrats stayed in the race after South Carolina instead of all dropping out like flies the day before super tuesday, there is decent chance he would be the nominee right now.

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