2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: POC aren't buying the "Bernie's been fighting for you all his life so you should vote for him" claim [View all]Bread and Circus
(9,454 posts)had their minds made up, liked Hillary "enough", and didn't seem to give Bernie a chance.
I didn't dig the articles up, y'all did. Bravenak and others, maybe you too.
I am not criticizing their choice in Clinton in and of itself, I am just pointing out it seems a lot of people already had their minds made up.
To act, as you do now, that somehow what we say on DU affected the vote in S.C. is pretty silly don't you think?
Double down or not, 99.99999% of Americans don't give a shit about DU.
I am one of the group of ardent Bernie Sanders supporters here who feel he has always been a long shot and that Clinton has a near strangehold on the nomination. I still do.
But this whole discussion of race for the past few months has been a pretty shitty experience for me. It's just a bunch of exploitative political crap that is great for the Clinton campaign in the short run but hurts the Party and progressive values in the long wrong.
A house divided cannot stand.
But if you don't think that white folks, including Clinton and her gang, won't kick you to the curb as soon as it becomes politically necessary, then you obviously haven't studied U.S. History as of late.
Blacks are a tiny minority of the electorate and the vast majority of Americans aren't really going to sacrifice a lot on their behalf. A lot of them don't even care.
You know this. I know this.
But right now, Blacks are important to Clinton...for the next month or so... but at the first sign of electoral trouble... wait and see... just watch.... it'll be back to "white hardworking Americans" "superpredators" and "bring 'em to heel".
Yes, Clinton is great with tokenism...she is known to "appoint blacks" to high positions. But outside of that, it seems she has a shitty sad record.