Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Joy Reid is getting dragged on twitter and facebook for promoting that Biden should drop out.. [View all]Garrett78
(10,721 posts)...a false narrative about what happened in 2016 and why.
People honestly seem to think the key to winning is flipping Trump voters in PA, MI and WI. As opposed to boosting turnout among our base. Hundreds of thousands fewer people showed up for Clinton than showed up for Obama in key battleground states, but people think flipping Trump voters is the key. It's madness.
Jamelle Bouie wrote a piece about the Obama-Trump voter that I've posted several times before: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/11/why-did-some-white-obama-voters-for-trump.html
People can't seem to grasp that A) some racists voted for Obama (like the racists who are married to a person of color and, therefore, can't be racist) following 8 years of Bush-Cheney and B) some of those Obama voters had become completely blinded by racism after 8 years of racist attacks on Obama (and are never coming back). Instead, they insist that a key to winning in 2020 is winning back a fraction of a fraction of voters who happened to vote for both Obama and Trump (due to *white* economic anxiety, 'cause - you know - POC don't experience economic anxiety). And, therefore, we need to nominate an old white man to defeat an old white man. Again, it's madness.
Jamil Smith of Rolling Stone is exactly right that non-racism isn't enough. We need someone well-versed in anti-racism. That ain't Biden.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided