Yesterday's Mass Shooting.

Fogdog

Well-Known Member
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

Ursus marijanus
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.
That makes a scary sort of sense.
 

Fogdog

Well-Known Member
That makes a scary sort of sense.
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.


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."

 
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