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Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class
(www.the-independent.com)
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Not really. The National Socialist Party drew in strong socialist support with its talk of uniting the workers and a strong social support system. The fascists used the socialist's votes to gain power and then betrayed them on the Night of Long Knives. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
The socialists voted for the KDP candidate. Hitler didn't gain power with socialist votes, the liberals promoted Hindenburg as a unity candidate, and won, Hindenburg proceeded to staff the government with nazis and made Hitler chancellor, unifying against the socialists. The nazis "socialist" side were no more socialist than Israelis who romanticize kibutzim as communes.
Sorry, but it's absurd to claim all socialists voted for one candidate. The KDP was a minor party in the Weimar period after the failed Spartacist uprising, getting only about 10% of the vote. Many socialists, especially war veterans, were social Democrats who were anti-communist (anti-Bolshevik really). They flocked to Hitlers nationalist, anti-banker (aka Jew), pro-veteran rhetoric. Once Hitler had gained power, he no longer needed the socialist elements of the party and purged them to make way for his authorization takeover.
(Note that I am absolutely not anti-socialist. Quite the opposite really. I just recognize that people are fallible and socialists have fucked up in the part too)