Gossip has it that Sanders supporters of all ages and colors particularly like

*snort* Check it out, the author of the OP, Sarah Jones, can't even get critical facts straight.

We all make mistakes. But she's a journalist, and the co-publisher of polticusUSA, shamelessly pulling another filthy bullshit race card out of her sleeve in order to smear Bernie Sanders supporters...

Not good enough, Sarah...

Here she plainly states, (third paragraph at the link in the OP), that a Social Security Works event in Seattle was a Bernie Sanders event, and implies that people in the crowd purportedly expressing racial slurs were Bernie Sanders supporters:

A Clinton presidency, like a republican presidency, means business as usual.

Wealthy private interests will continue to exploit human beings all over the world, and there will be little or no regulation of corporations as they continue to destroy our environment with impunity. Privatization will accelerate. Hillary will implement Third Way plans to cut social security and other social programs.

The polarization of wealth will continue to accelerate exponentially. Unions will continue to decline as more international trade agreements that enslave working people are put into effect. Drilling, mining, fracking, etc will continue unabated and unregulated, as poisons are released into our air, and get dumped into our water supply. The abuse of minorities will continue unobstructed. Private prisons will continue to expand. Defense spending will increase, as money for social programs and education decreases. Health insurance companies and health care providers will continue to jack up the prices of their services, rendering Obamacare basically useless to everyone but those on Medicaid.

And on, and on, and on. Oligarchy will expand and become more powerful. Business as usual.

Status quo.

With the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, we finally have the opportunity to elect a president who is not owned by wealthy private interests, who will make a genuine attempt to tackle the systemic problems in the political, economic, and social compartments of our society which desperately need to be addressed.

No President can solve all our myriad problems. Most of that depends on us. A Sanders presidency will give us some of the support we need to begin to solve the problems.

A Hillary Clinton presidency, like a republican presidency, will be nothing but business as usual, and the world will continue to go to hell in a hand basket as life becomes more and more hopeless for billions and billions of people of the earth, and future generations as well.

Thanks. You make some good points. Unfortunately, the alternatives to

"tricked", or "wrong", in the scenario you have described, in terms of the (ostensible at least) cultural mores of US society, are descriptors like "morally corrupt", or "deliberately evil".

Some would argue that there are gray areas. But there are no gray areas in taking deliberate, informed action to commit unjustified acts of mass destruction and genocide. You either do the right thing, or the wrong thing. There is no in between, no wiggle room, no 'splainin it away.

What kind of human being would deliberately help initiate mass destruction and genocide? George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are two examples of this type of human being.


What kind of human being do we, as responsible and informed citizens, want to elect to be POTUS and Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces? Who do we want to trust the lives of our children, grandchildren, family, friends, neighbors, and communities with?

I will posit here that it is not someone who takes deliberate action to engage in unjustifiable acts of mass destruction and genocide. And even if we run with scenarios like "tricked", or "wrong", there is still the stark reality of poor judgment leading to mass destruction and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and the tragic, senseless waste of the lives of US soldiers, etc, etc, ad nauseum.

Whatever the case may be, I'm not taking any chances. I'm going with the clearly ethical choice here, the candidate who clearly demonstrated moral integrity and sound judgment, who advocated against, and acted against, deliberately committing unjustified acts of mass destruction and genocide.

The good guy. The smart one.

Taking dirty money, by any other 'splain, is still taking dirty money.

Bundling is a great way to let corrupt politicians take money from malicious sources so that they can claim "We Didn't Know!"

No human being with any shred of integrity would ever knowingly accept bundled money from lobbyists who take money from such unspeakably wicked incarcerate for profit operations.

The only people you are going to fool with your Third Way propaganda 'splain are fools.

Some suggestions ~

NARF may be able to provide the most informed answers to your question "How Can We Help?"

NARF

http://www.narf.org/about-us/

May 28th: So what's up with the (I'm guessing Clinton operatives) out here calling Bernie Sanders

racist?

The BS narratives were being heavily marketed/promoted by Clinton supporters

here for almost two months before the NN event.

Clinton supporters, close to 100% exclusively Clinton supporters, began pushing it here at DU on May 27th.

On the same day, May 27th, RW hacks began promoting the meme also.

There are a whole lot of BS OP's and swarm threads full of toxic filth on this subject that can be easily researched using the DU search function.

Vile.

Some things just can't be justified, no matter how much 'splainin gets done.

And there's a whole lot of 'splainin, and no justifying, getting done here.

Sorry. Actions have consequences. The Seattle incident does not reflect well on BLM at all. I hope someone with some semblance of wisdom from BLM has "the talk" with this young, inexperienced woman, before she successfully frightens every blue haired granny from Petaluma to Peoria down to Pensacola into voting for Donald Trump, and fucking up the lives of every non-white, and/or female, and/or LGBT, and/or every decent person in America who sincerely wants justice and equality for everyone.

Angry, aggressive extremists shouting blanket ethnic and/or racial slurs in front of a microphone. Not cool, especially in the minds of people who know history.

Bernie Sanders is a very gracious, thoughtful, and understanding human being, who clearly knows how to take a bad situation, turn it around, and bring it to positive resolution for everyone.

It would be good for everyone if we could put this behind us, work for positive resolution, and hope a similar situation does not manifest in the future.

I sincerely hope that Black Lives Matter achieves whatever righteous goals it pursues.

It is difficult to help someone when they consistently act against their own interests, repeating

the same unproductive behavior over and over, and expecting a different result.

We progressive Bernie supporters, of all races, genders, and sexual orientations, believe that one thing we can do to help prevent African Americans from being abused and murdered by psycho cops, and improve their social and economic conditions, is to get Bernie elected to the Presidency.

We can unite and do our best to nominate and elect a sincere, concerned President who actually gets that black lives matter, and who actually cares about the systemic racism and economic and social injustice that have been inflicted upon African Americans and other, and who will actually make every effort to do something about it.

Non African Americans cannot presume to lead African American movements for justice and equality. Even if we are of another minority, we haven't lived the black experience. African Americans can lead, and the rest of us can follow, as long as they explicitly tell us what they would like us to do. If African Americans do not explicitly tell us what they would like us to do to help, and we have no intrinsic knowledge basis for leadership in AA movements, we are all left here wanting to help. but not knowing how to help.

You mentioned that these two young leaders of BLM in Seattle were "passionate, inexperienced young firebrands". Passionate, inexperienced young firebrands do not make good leaders. The have tendency to walk off of cliffs, not watching where they are going while looking up at the sky, taking those who follow them off the cliff with them.

As an activist, I recognize and respect the effectiveness of disrupting political rallies to get a point across. However, when doing so, it is important to make it perfectly clear that you do not have nefarious partisan political ulterior motives when making your case. BLM leaders at NN made a serious mistake by disrupting an event that did not include Hillary Clinton. They irreparably damaged the credibility of their movement by making it appear that their action could have been one of political partisanship rather than purely to make the case that we all need to be aware of the desperate conditions that exist, and take action to solve them.

Like it or not, assuming the motives of BLM's leadership are singular and sincere, the leadership of BLM has very seriously fucked up by tainting the general public's view of their credibility, and have left themselves wide open to accusations of maliciously using a very important and righteous cause to attempt to damage Bernie Sander's reputation and campaign, and shill for Hillary Clinton, in an effort to help Clinton win the nomination.

The leadership of BLM has made a very serious error, and continues to err by only disrupting the events of one candidate, while at the same time basically ignoring past racist words and actions of Hillary Clinton while aimlessly flailing away at a candidate who clearly has, at the very least, sincerely attempted to support justice and equality for African Americans for several decades.

And no matter what they do from here on out, BLM will never be able get this toothpaste back in the tube. They have made the motivation for their activism legitimately suspect, and continue to do so.

Wise leadership would do damage control starting right now, and help restore BLM credibility, and could help this movement become a focused, effective, constructive force for significant positive change. But there does not appear to be another MLK on the horizon right now, and I doubt BLM would pay attention to direction from a long experienced activist leader like Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr.

So we're all waiting, and listening, and waiting, for BLM to tell us what they'd like the rest of the world to do to help them, as many have been wondering what the plan is.

Telling us we need to vote for Hillary Clinton would be the exact wrong answer. That is the same path that has led directly off the cliff for everyone but the very wealthy, for decades. The same path that has put many African Americans in the desperate straits they are in at this time.

Voting for Hillary Clinton would continue the process of repeating the same unproductive behavior over and over, while expecting a different result.

Real progressives, of all colors, gender, and sexual orientation, didn't fall off he turnip truck yesterday. Wealthy private interests have all the money, power, and talent in the world to promote agendas and actions that serve their interests, and they do it with malicious, anti-democratic intent, every single day, early, and often, without conscience.

BLM indisputably has a righteous and legitimate cause. If they wish to restore their credibility, they would be wise to make it clear that their only purpose is to advocate and gain justice and equality for African Americans. Because it is definitely not clear to large numbers of people that this is their only agenda.