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hellofromreddit's JournalPerhaps Bernie should disavow his rudest supporters when republicans disavow theirs
Wouldn't want a double standard, now would we?
Death Penalty: yea or nay?
I'm voting for Sanders, firmly in the nay column.
Making dead bodies out of live people is murder last I checked.
Edit: Poll over here. Rec both for visibility--I'm whoring for attention today.
A Tom Hayden blast from the past!
Since this keeps popping up: https://www.thenation.com/article/i-used-to-support-bernie-but-then-i-changed-my-mind/
I thought maybe we should jostle some old neurons: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2248793
Everything old is new again.
Did Bernie actually claim the Pope invited him?
No, de Blasio said it and Bernie just delivered the punch line.
Bernie Sanders is married to a woman
I trust that this will put an end to charges of sexism.
"If we lose them, we never had them."
I've been seeing this lame excuse again and again to justify discarding new democrats who might leave if Sanders is defeated in the primary.
It's dangerously shortsighted and emblematic of the mediocre and divisive campaign Hillary has been running so far, and she has been flat or trending down for the whole season as a result. How will that bode in the general when republicans are more energized than ever and closed primaries are behind us?
Bernie's weak with black voters, so he and the campaign are clearly working very hard to fix it by meeting with them, discussing issues important to them, and listening to what they've got to say instead of simply writing them off. Remember how Bernie used to be weak among women and Hispanics, but isn't anymore? By contrast, Hillary is weak with independents, crossover voters, and young voters, but the plan up to this point seems to be one that's entirely dismissive of Bernie and his supporters--calling them disloyal, immature, or blindly bigoted in some way. That's a strategy of throwing out the most energized among the voters, and her gap with those voters has only grown.
To be sure, voters refusing to line up behind the other candidate isn't blackmail: voters are going to choose what to do with their own votes as is their right. They aren't trying to steal anything from anyone by simply giving up on the campaign that dismisses them.
While I expect it from republicans who've built much of their power on their ability to shut out and ignore voters they dislike and can't deal with honestly, I'm somewhat surprised to see that kind of attitude from democrats. Aren't democrats supposed to win elections by earning votes and expanding the base?
It might sting when people say the D party is no better than the R party, but the behavior from the Clinton campaign sure does blur that line. Expect some votes to blur accordingly.
If Sanders isn't a democrat
then it's because democrats haven't got their shit together. He's been working for what they claim to believe in across his entire career--even when they opposed him.
The party platform: https://www.democrats.org/party-platform
Sanders' platform: https://berniesanders.com/issues/
Right on civil rights before it was popular: http://www.salon.com/2015/07/22/20_examples_of_bernie_sanders_powerful_record_on_civil_and_human_rights_partner/
Right on gay rights before it was popular: http://www.queerty.com/5-times-bernie-sanders-was-championed-our-cause-before-it-was-popular-20160131
Right on opposing the war before it was popular:
Right on TPP before it was popular:
Right on Keystone before it was popular: http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/07/bernie-sanders-shatters-big-keystone-xl-lie-pipeline-oil-prices.html
Right on Panama before it was popular: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-panama-papers_us_5703c2d4e4b083f5c608d386
Right on drug price gouging before it was popular: http://www.albionmonitor.com/0007a/berniedrugs.html
Right on unions before it was popular: http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/11/15/a-socialist-in-the-senate/
Right on minimum wage, healthcare, immigration, food stamps, highways, etc.
And on and on and on.
Not to mention successfully financing a national campaign without large donors or exclusive fund raisers--showing all of us that we are needed and they are not.
Decades of video: http://www.c-span.org/search/?searchtype=People&query=bernie+sanders
Decades of public records: http://www.ontheissues.org/Bernie_Sanders.htm
If democrats are not that, then they should be.
AA Pop vs. Primary Results vs. Religion
This may explain why Hillary's advantage among black voters has waned since the primary moved out of the south.
Map of AA population:
Map of primary victories:
Map of US religions:
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