Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Pete: "Normalcy" got us where we are today. [View all]mobeau69
(11,141 posts)In "Shortest Way Home" Pete describes getting a call from the Clinton campaign letting him know she was coming to South Bend and asking him to find a location for the event. He set it up to be in the AM General (Hummer) plant in next door Mishawaka.
Pete wrote:
"After Clinton spoke, everyone clapped in their seats. Then she shook hands in a rope line, and was off to the next event. This might sound normal, but I had been at enough campaign events over the years to know that a presidential appearance this late in the game should never end with anything but people on their feet. At the time it just struck me as a little peculiar that a union-heavy and typically Democratic crowd was not standing to cheer; now, with the benefit of hindsight, it looks like a sign or her campaign's fatal lack of enthusiasm among workers in the industrial Midwest."
We, as a party, can either learn from this or deny it and cling to the same-old same-old resulting in the same result as 2016. My fear is that we will choose the latter path.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided