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[–] cthulian_axioms 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

You're absolutely right. AOC is ditzy and naive. She won that primary by accident, because people are so goddamn fed up with mainstream politics that they'll vote for a sack of potatoes given the chance.

You know who isn't, though? I'll give you some hints. He's also got a strategic mind, has AOC's best interest at heart and is acting out of genuine kindness and affection toward her, has been in the swamp for almost thirty years and thus knows how it works, and was robbed in brutal fashion by the same entities who are now making AOC their patsy.

I don't reckon AOC thought of this herself. I think Bernie did. He knows what's coming, and he wants to spare her the worst of it. She's only 29. One would hope she has a lot of life ahead of her.

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[–] Dirty_Money [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I do hope that Bernie is, in fact, as altruistic as you think. I am more cynical, because we saw his wife bankrupt an entire college, leaving thousands of students just as liberal and even more defenseless than AOC without a school overnight, and loaded with college debt.

Look up what he and his wife did to escape prosecution.

Hint: They hung all the students up to dry.

Why would AOC be any different?

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[–] cthulian_axioms ago  (edited ago)

Burlington College was circling the drain long before Jane Sanders performed the coup de grace. There are three other colleges in a city of 40,000 people. It just wasn't sustainable, and anyone with half a brain should have seen that.

I have no doubt that the financial shenanigans surrounding the school's demise are in large part true. But honestly, after thirty years in the swamp, if all Bernie Sanders did was ignore his wife running a college the rest of the way into the ground (plus garden-variety corruption like misusing camping* funds, which every politician does), in the big scheme of things, it's actually not that bad. "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

I think Bernie's still got a little of his soul left. Not much, but some. Or maybe he's motivated by spite. Doesn't want to give the ghouls the satisfaction of slow-roasting her.

EDIT: As for what makes AOC different from the student body of Burlington College, the latter can get their loans discharged (the one exception to "student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy" is if a school closes, leaving students in the lurch). The former is a naive girl who is in way, way over her head and has probably been raped by demons half a dozen times already.

* Fuckin' thing keeps correcting "campaign" to "camping". Goddamnit Autocorrect, you're right, it is better that way.