2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Racism is a tool of the wealthy used to keep poor people from uniting. [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)Not blaming them for not knowing...because they see their world in their own eyes. But, often discount the history and record that is now available on the Internet of the paths their candidates have taken and and can't see beyond their current ANGST...to see how that has been manipulated before.
Wish they would read more and do more digging since there's so much more available to get "up to speed" on the History of US Movements for Change than many of us had when we were young and working to make our "Own Change."
Just saying....from my perspective of "been there and done it" and wish we'd had "Instant Tools" to know what we were up against.
And...no I wasn't a "Flower Child" lost in dreams...(nothing wrong with that, either when one is young) but, was part of those "Working for Change" without the Media Factor that seems so much a part of that time that distorts what else was going on.