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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bernie just equated working voters with white voters, again. [View all]
Last edited Wed May 18, 2016, 12:41 PM - Edit history (1)
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He just doesn't get it.
No, Bernie, African American and Hispanic people aren't being tempted by Trump and his nonsense. And they do work. And vote. Trump hasn't captured the votes of "the majority of working people" because he hasn't captured PoC.
http://fortune.com/2016/05/18/democrats-pressuring-bernie-sanders/
Sanders also warned of a very sad and tragic option for the party: to choose to maintain its status quo structure, remain dependent on big-money campaign contributions and be a party with limited participation and limited energy. And a party which incredibly is allowing a right-wing extremist Republican Party to capture the votes of the majority of working people in this country.
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I don't see it, either. I think they are looking at something and finding it because they WANT it to
Hiraeth
May 2016
#3
Then you can't do math. Any majority of working voters would have to include a substantial
pnwmom
May 2016
#4
Considering that 90% of minorities consider Trump the scum of the earth and the percentages of
Number23
May 2016
#64
Ironically, that's the only statement you've made in this thread that I agree with. Buh Bye!
Tarheel_Dem
May 2016
#94
There is a lot you don't know about that period. During the 90s the Clintons were setting up this
Baobab
May 2016
#96
Even though you don't have to justify anything to anyone....I appreciate your post
Digital Puppy
May 2016
#40
"Sanders knows this, he just wants to get a slice of the slightly less racist white people"
Number23
May 2016
#63
If you mean he wanted to raise the lid on social security earnings, of course that should happen.
pnwmom
May 2016
#49
a formal survey? lol. Look, where I was working there are more black people than white
Hiraeth
May 2016
#30
The youger blacks that have talked are not registered to vote and think the whole thing is a joke.
Hiraeth
May 2016
#34
I think it's arrogant to say that people vote against Bernie because they lack information
gollygee
May 2016
#35
After reading your posts in this thread, I'm not the slightest bit surprised that black people would
Number23
May 2016
#68
They voted for President Obama. And I think they will vote for Hillary and against Trump.
pnwmom
May 2016
#44
I agree that he's not doing it purposely -- the same as some of the problems with women.
pnwmom
May 2016
#39
So women, African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos don't belong to the working class.
Agnosticsherbet
May 2016
#29
PoC have fit nicely into the Hillary Clinton victim/aggressor/divider policy. More the pity for the
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#51
Ah, 'inference!' A valid literary method of both communicating and understanding
LanternWaste
May 2016
#90
i still wonder if it's lack of good advisors, his campaign is full of people who hate clinton
JI7
May 2016
#82
I don't see nor do I even hear of any quotes or suggestions that Bernie did as such.
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#76
BS' constant derision of "identity politics" wasn't a dogwhistle, it was a foghorn. I've known....
Tarheel_Dem
May 2016
#95