June 10, 2016

Being apathetic towards a bigot getting elected = White privilege?

When reading this politico article, the biggest part that stuck out to me was this section:

Minority voters have been watching in horror as millions of Republican voters choose Trump either because of, or despite, his open bigotry. The Sanders supporters who toy with the idea of shunning Clinton in November and allowing Trump to become president to force a revolution that Sanders couldn’t deliver are playing with fire. To minority voters, Trump’s candidacy feels like an existential threat.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democrats-race-racial-divide-213948#ixzz4BAxZFizo

When I see Bernie or Busters giddily play around with the possibility of Trump getting elected, I'm stuck with the sense that it has to be (outside of the trolls) a mostly white-liberal movement. There certainly can't be a lot of Hispanic liberals who think the choice between Hillary or Trump is inconsequential... nor could I it be something that most Muslims would shrug at. Even though Trump hasn't done a lot of direct attacks on blacks, I can't see a lot blacks signing up for that movement either.

This isn't to say that are no minorities that are BoB, but I'm thinking this group is probably dominated by white males who have little to lose of Trump gets elected. A demographic breakdown of this group in future polling should be very revealing.

June 8, 2016

The majority of the faithful are losing or have lost hope, when do you predict Bernie will concede?

After looking through reddit, pro-Bernie sites, FB and other places where Bernie supporters congregate... very few are holding on to the idea that Bernie has any chance of winning the nomination outside of an unlikely Hillary indictment. The media is also pulling no punches in saying the race is over. It's going to be pretty much impossible for Bernie to carry on the charade that he has any realistic chance of winning. When do you think he's going to finally throw in the towel?

My prediction is it will probably be before the vote totals come in from DC... but looking at the demographics, he's going to get blown out of the water, so not sure he'll have a chance to get ahead of that announcement... but around that time, it will be painfully obvious he has absolutely no path to victory and he'll have to try to save face soon. Dragging it on to the convention will just make him a pariah, I think he's smart enough to avoid that.

June 7, 2016

The media has a history of counting superdelegates before the convention

They counted them before the convention in 2008:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/23/uselections2008.barackobama

They counted them before the convention in 2004:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/nomination/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

There's not a lot of search results for 2000 and prior, but I'll assume that factoring in superdelegates is anything but a new phenomena.

Can we please stop acting as if the media is only tabulating superdelegates votes because they are somehow working for the Clinton campaign and want to steal the election from Bernie? Anyone making this claim obviously doesn't care about the truth of the matter.

June 6, 2016

Hillary's new anti-Trump ad. You guys really think she's going to have a hard time against this guy?

Hillary moving into GE mode is showing that she has a very clear path to defeating Donald Trump. Simply holding his feet to the fire for all of the crazy shit he's been saying before and after the republican primary.

The same stuff that played well for him the primary is going to destroy him in the general... if we show even a modicum of unity, he'll get steamrolled in the electoral college.

June 6, 2016

Other than Hillary, who do you think should be locked up for violating email protocol?

Every time I tell a Bernie supporter (or secret republican) that I don't give a shit about Hillary's emails, they start ranting about how it's some prison worthy offense. So I ask, what is the precedent? Who has been locked up for doing the same thing that Hillary has done?

June 2, 2016

Bernie or Bust equals a pro-Trump movement after the convention if BS in not the nominee

who do they think will win if the majority of democrats and left leaning independent don't rally around Hillary? Is anyone under the illusion that if they stay home, write-in or do anything in November other than vote for Hillary that they are not doing everything in their power to prevent Trump from being nominated?

May 15, 2016

How does humanity move beyond the value of human labor?

Right now, there are many populist appeals against foreign labor, trade, wage and everything else that could be perceived as disenfranchising the worker class. The reality of the situation is that, as our technology improves, there will be a decreasing demand for any type of work. Some hang on to the idea that society creates new jobs as science advances, but technology evolves at a rate that exceeds human evolution. We will eventually come to a point where technology exceeds our ability to create human jobs that are necessary or beneficial.

So when we do reach that stage where our technology progresses beyond the benefits of human labor, what are we to do?

Personally, I think that a living wage and universal welfare is the only way forward. I also think that we should create virtual economies and promote virtual goods as way to satisfy our nature.

What do you think?

May 4, 2016

Let me get this right...Sanders' supporters don't trust the polls...

but want to use Bernie's lead in the polls against Trump as the reason for super delegates to hand him the nomination even if he loses in pledged delegates and the popular vote. If we're going by the polls, Sanders has no chance of catching up to clinton. If he actually does catch up to Clinton, that means the polls are wrong.

So Sanders wants to get on the convention floor and argue that even though polls have often been wrong this election cycle.... he should win because he's leading in polls for an election that is several months away?

May 4, 2016

Bernie lost among democrats 54-46% according to exit poll. All primaries should be closed primaries

http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/in/Dem

New York and other states have it right. Bernie would be getting slaughtered even worse than he is now if outsiders had no say in the parties choice. What do you think?