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Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 12:12 AM Mar 2016

Support the Real Progressive

Whoa, The Stranger in Seattle.

http://www.thestranger.com/2016-democratic-caucus-endorsement/2016/03/23/23829365/support-the-real-progressive



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Hillary is a walking refutation of Trumpism: a woman who has beat back bullies of all kinds over more than four decades of public service; a determined progressive whose first job out of law school was doing civil rights work for the Children's Defense Fund (the organization's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, is supporting her 2016 candidacy); an experienced leader who has fought for liberal ideals as first lady, US senator, and secretary of state.

Yeah, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont talks a good revolutionary game. But his failure to rally a diverse coalition, his history of selling out certain liberal ideals for political expediency, and his peddling of unrealistic promises make him wrong for this political moment.

Let's review.

More than 25 states have now weighed in on the Democratic race. The result: Hillary has a commanding lead over Bernie in terms of pledged convention delegates (a lead that stays commanding even if you factor out Clinton's large stash of pledged "superdelegates&quot . To catch up, Bernie would need to win the remaining primaries and caucuses by the kind of yuge margins that he's failed to consistently capture so far. Sorry, Bernie, it's not gonna happen.

More concerning: A large part of Bernie's poor performance so far traces back to his failure to win support from minority voters. Perhaps you've heard about Bernie's big "upset" in Michigan on March 8? Bernie won Michigan by a slim 1.5 percent margin overall but lost the state's black vote big time. Hillary won 65 percent of the black vote in Michigan. She also won more than 80 percent of the black vote in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, and nearly 70 percent of the black vote in Ohio. If Bernie is leading a revolution, it's an overwhelmingly white one. Bernie and his supporters should reflect on this failure. Black voters matter. Democrats don't win national elections without black voters, and they're speaking unambiguously in favor of Hillary.

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The whole thing is awesome...!
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Support the Real Progressive (Original Post) Starry Messenger Mar 2016 OP
Another corporate endorsement cosmicone Mar 2016 #1
Randi Weingarten posted the link on Facebook. Starry Messenger Mar 2016 #2
I got a link to an endorsement of Bernie BainsBane Mar 2016 #3
You got to pick your revolutions! yallerdawg Mar 2016 #4
Got it in one creon Mar 2016 #5
What the Sanders people don't get Coolest Ranger Mar 2016 #6
But his failure to rally a diverse coalition, his history of selling out certain liberal ideals for Cha Mar 2016 #7

BainsBane

(53,001 posts)
3. I got a link to an endorsement of Bernie
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 12:46 AM
Mar 2016

I think they have two different ones going. You get Clinton if you click the older age, Bernie for the younger or if you decline to select an age.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
4. You got to pick your revolutions!
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 07:49 AM
Mar 2016


While we're thinking about political revolutions, though, you know what's really revolutionary? Declaring, in 1992, that you won't be the kind of first lady to "stay at home and bake cookies." You know what else is revolutionary? Becoming first lady and deciding your job includes pushing a radical overhaul of our unjust American health-care system. You know what else is revolutionary? Going to the UN Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 as first lady—over the objections of some of your husband's senior staff—and declaring, "Women's rights are human rights." You know what else is revolutionary? Being the first first lady to run for office, winning a Senate seat, and then becoming the first woman to launch a credible campaign for the office of the presidency of the United States. Twice.

creon

(1,183 posts)
5. Got it in one
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 08:02 AM
Mar 2016

Clinton is on track to win the nomination. It is hers to lose.
The Sanders fans will have to decide what they will do if she does.

The campaign after the conventions will be the most rancorous and strident within living memory.
I think that you can count on that.
You have the Sanders fans who are mad as a meat axe and the Trump fans who are mad as a meat axe. Or, affect to be.
Both will get over it; or, they will not.

Coolest Ranger

(2,034 posts)
6. What the Sanders people don't get
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 08:51 AM
Mar 2016

is that we already had the revolution. It happened with Barrack Obama and its about to happen again with Hillary Clinton.

Cha

(295,899 posts)
7. But his failure to rally a diverse coalition, his history of selling out certain liberal ideals for
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 09:14 AM
Mar 2016
political expediency, and his peddling of unrealistic promises make him wrong for this political moment."

Quite simply.. BS doesn't have what it takes.

Mahalo Starry~
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