Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: I Don't Like Bernie Sanders, and You Can Die Mad About it [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)I think it is a thing among the Professional Managerial Class and people in those rich neighborhoods where I was allowed in to fix slate and copper roofs. I don't deny such people exist in real life, just not among the general population of regular working class people similar to those I run into every day, or the neighbors I talk to sometimes.
Among my casual peers and the neighbors I have come to know, he is viewed favorably as a rare politician that, agree with him or not, he is at least honest and earnest about what he talks up. This may simply be an "isolated bubble" view of what is seen in my lower working class poor neighborhood but is no less valid than what is viewed from within a 3 Million/year coffee clatch pundit bubble. I would even suggest there are a great many more people with a world view and worries more in common with the denizens of my modest neighborhood that those that live in the world of a millionaire talking head.
Even canvassing in the blue collar middle class suburban neighborhoods (closer to the city than the 7 and 8 figure gated places by the lake) where I encounter some conservative ideology, people I've pitched to don't dislike Bernie, I've never had to start by defending anything. No one I've talked to so far find him unlikable, in fact more than a few times I have heard the phrase "at least he's not full of shit" right before going over one of his popular policies.
Truth is, everything I encounter offline leads me to believe he is quite popular, no matter how much the online concern trolls tell me, like Hillary, "Nobody likes him".
Long time no see Autumn (hoping you remember me)
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided