2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Politico: What’s a Class Revolution Without Black People? [View all]DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)but in their defense, it's BECAUSE HRC has been in the trenches FOR them for her entire adult life.
Take my household as an example. We're weird though, so...
hubs is R, was raised R, but voted for Bill Clinton twice, for Al Gore, and John Kerry. He refused to vote for President Obama, and is still on the fence where Hillary Clinton is concerned. I actually find this kind of funny, because I'm 1/4 Filipino, a strong woman, and come from a family of strong women. His mother was a strong woman, divorced when it was still not "the thing" to do, and did a helluva job raising her kids. So, as we can see with him, some attitudes are simply "baked in".
Oldest son and youngest daughter both live with me. They both profess to be "independent". Funny thing there, is as I pointed out to my oldest, the independent thing as a young adult is often an affectation. They've both always voted DEMOCRAT. I went through my phase with this as a young adult as well, until I found out that for the party I always supported, I couldn't vote in primaries where the primaries were closed, and had to wait until the GE to cast my vote. That brought me OFF the fence and I registered as a Democrat, even though I'd always VOTED Dem and identified as Dem before.
Oldest son was a staunch Bernie supporter until the primary in NY. At that point, he flipped. We used to have discussions prior to his flip, and what I asked for him to do, was instead of listening to the campaign rhetoric, was to actually LOOK at Hillary's actual public record of service, and that he would be pleasantly surprised. He was, and quite surprised at how liberal she's always been.
Youngest daughter is gay, and in a union. She started out a Bernie supporter in 2015, by early 2016, before any primaries, she had flipped. She also did as I asked her to. Took a good, hard look at my candidate, to see why I supported her. What flipped her was the transgender identification rules she instituted at the State Department. No fanfare, no asking for recognition, she just DID it.
But like I said, my family is weird!