Yesterday's Mass Shooting.

Fogdog

Fogdog

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cannabineer said:
www.vox.com

The Bernie voters who defected to Trump, explained by a political scientist

A new study found that about 12 percent of Sanders voters from the primary supported Trump in the general election.
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To me, this is the most important line:

I think what this starts to suggest to me is that these are old holdovers from the Democratic Party that are conservative on race issues. And while Bernie wasn't campaigning on that kind of thing, Clinton was much more forthright about courting the votes of minorities — and maybe that offended them, and then eventually pushed them out and toward Trump.

And Sanders knew this. He pandered to white racist men. It was after the election, when he tried to drive a wedge in the Democratic Party by pandering to this sentiment that he lost me forever.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Fogdog said:
To me, this is the most important line:

I think what this starts to suggest to me is that these are old holdovers from the Democratic Party that are conservative on race issues. And while Bernie wasn't campaigning on that kind of thing, Clinton was much more forthright about courting the votes of minorities — and maybe that offended them, and then eventually pushed them out and toward Trump.

And Sanders knew this. He pandered to white racist men. It was after the election, when he tried to drive a wedge in the Democratic Party by pandering to this sentiment that he lost me forever.
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That makes a scary sort of sense.
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

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cannabineer said:
That makes a scary sort of sense.
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He knew his state and its politics very well. Mostly white. He stood more to lose if he took a strong interest in social equity.

www.thedailybeast.com

Vermont’s Black Leaders: We Were ‘Invisible’ to Bernie Sanders

He’s paying attention to the concerns of black America now, as a presidential candidate. Back when he represented Vermont? Not so much, local activists say.
www.thedailybeast.com www.thedailybeast.com

It's not an accident that Bernie's bros were mostly white and denigrated the southern Black vote for not supporting Bernie. The southern Black voter didn't see Bernie as a politician who they could count on. Bernie's campaigns went up in flames when the '16 and '00 primaries were held in the south.
 
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BarnBuster

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"At least three people were killed and four others were wounded in a shooting in the Beverly Crest area of Los Angeles early Saturday morning.The incident marks the fourth California mass shooting within the last week."

Police say 3 dead, 4 hurt in latest California shooting

Police confirmed the shooting happened just after 2:30 a.m. in Beverly Crest, an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood.
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