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Originally Posted by PocketChads
RT I'm talking about demographic numbers, not a sound byte from Sanders
Really? Because it sounds like you're using your anecdotal experience and personal preference to inform your opinion
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Originally Posted by PocketChads
It's all a sick ****ing joke. The people I meet in any kind of organizing that actually helps people, not electioneering but actual mutual aid and direct action, these people are nearly universally Bernie supporters. And Bernie is the compromise candidate for these people. They're actually much farther left and/or anarchist.
You can nominate someone who actually excites people in the general election, or when you lose again, you can complain about how people who dedicate their lives to socioeconomic justice are all somehow young cis het white misogynistic men in your warped perception of the world. Who, by the way, despite your disbelief, overwhelmingly vote for whoever the Dem is against Trump. It's the completely disaffected people who don't talk politics and stay home, who could have made up the difference needed to win. The people who got conned by Obama to be excited enough to show up to the polls, but are still poor and still oppressed and can see through Hillary and whoever else in ways you want them to just ignore. Whose lives materially now are not any different than if she'd won.
The demographic data from the 2016
primaries was
clear. Bernie's largest block was young, white people. He did reasonably well with young POC but not with older POC. That's changed since then but that's obviously not what we were talking about so that's a moot point.
