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In reply to the discussion: So, let me get this straight, DU [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)That's the future.
White men like Avenatti and Sanders might kind of have a vested interest in telling us all that 2020 is for the white men again. After all, after 225 years of only white-men candidates in both parties, there have been three elections now with non-white-men as the Democratic nominee. All three (well, O twice) won the popular vote. Twice the non-white-man won the majority and the presidency.
And out in the country, who won this year? Well, there was that non-white lesbian kickboxer (my new favorite EVER!), among many who didn't fit the historically dominant Sanders model.
We have seen this before... all the pearl-clutching about how things are changing too fast! Or that they haven't REALLY changed at all (ignore the evidence!).
Here's a white guy who understood the score-- :
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Dont stand in the doorway
Dont block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'