2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBuddhists Support Bernie Sanders Overwhelmingly 68.5% Bernie 18.6% Hillary
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2016/04/buddhists-for-bernie-a-breakdown-of-our-march-us-presidential-poll.htmlJill Stein had four supporters in this poll, actually down one from last month despite being added to the list of possible choices. Libertarian Gary Johnson was given four write-ins this month, so he will be added to the list of names in next months poll. Gloria La Riva was written in once (her name was misspelled by the respondent, hence the mistake on some of the images below).
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)A lot of Americans simply can't believe that, for example, violent Buddhist extremists have killed tens of thousands of people in Sri Lanka and Burma.
The highest-profile Buddhists are middle class white Americans who follow an east Asian school of Buddhism, but the vast majority of Buddhists in America are south and southeast Asian immigrants and their descendants, whose school of Buddhism has very little to do with either Zen or Tibetan Buddhism.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)I'm guessing that that's not a word-for-word teaching, since I've never heard it said like that before, but I sure love it. Thanks!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)We may say things a bit differently today but it creates the same peace in our heart.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Some Buddhists are pranksters, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were just messing with the pollers, but maybe not.
synergie
(1,901 posts)who overwhelmingly chose Bernie were self-identified white males, followed by white females, and it's a pretty small sample size. But they do break it all down, and explain the categories they offered etc. Interesting, not terribly informative, but interesting nonetheless.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)but I wonder why there isn't a breakdown of nonwhite and non Asian people. Did they happen to only ask whites and Asians?
synergie
(1,901 posts)raised in the religion and if they had converted and etc. I think there might not have been enough people (it's a VERY small sample), who had picked other races.
They broke it down pretty well considering how few respondents they had.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)That is what Buddha teaches us, to be interconnected and compassionate.
synergie
(1,901 posts)thing kinda challenge that notion that he's some current day incarnation of the Buddha. He needs to learn a bit more about the teachings of Gautama.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Rather than immigrant Buddhists which, despite their lower visibility, are significantly more numerous in the US.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Response to Bonobo (Reply #12)
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NWCorona
(8,541 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)Have been fed up for so long with that hollow, off-the-mark accusation, laughing at it is a much-needed release.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)synergie
(1,901 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)and made the first political donation of his life, last summer, to Bernie. Happy surprise for me.
As for other religions, any Christian who reads the Gospels, pays attention to Jesus's actual teachings (vs. church dogma), and knows the differences among the candidates, would have to choose Bernie. I could see naive, uninformed Christians choosing Hill in the mistaken belief that Democrats are still the party of economic justice and Hill's just a nice lady who wants world peace and good things for all the little people.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)we don't even have a mainstream in US religion since the 70s (when the country's owners made a coup in the Southern Baptists)