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Sanders doesn’t need to win the ‘red states’.
Bernie needs to win the same states he beat Hillary in 2016, namely Michigan, Wisconsin, West Virginia.
People seem to think Trump won by some overwhelming number of people pouring out into the voting booths for him. No. He won by a sliver of people in just the few exact states that Hillary needed...but neglected to make herself known. Here in Michigan I saw Bernie campaigning at least 4 times. Hillary never once. She WAS in Michigan...at a private fundraiser in VERY wealthy St. Claire Shores just outside of Detroit.
Trump scored the greatest inside straight in political history. And he beat the only candidate whose ‘unlikeable’ numbers were near his.
Bernie Sanders is NOT Hillary Clinton.
He’s no communist. He’s not some boogeyman. He isn’t here to take your precious money.
The dude wants to make sure people who want to go to a public university can do so. He wants to make sure every citizen has healthcare. EVERY citizen. He wants to take big donor money out of politics. He wants to decriminalize marijuana.
This is a matter of voting for not only yourself, but people you’ll never know or meet. You got a problem with the kind of violent crime the news uses to keep you up at night? Sanders policies would go a long way to easing that fear. Not overnight, but over time. You got family who are struggling with medical debt? Bernies policies would ease that burden.
The problem I’ve always had with ‘centrist’ politics is that it serves no one but the politician. Meaning every policy is designed to not offend or push the boundary or challenge the thinking. And frankly no positive, meaningful changes in this country’s history have come from being ‘moderate’.
We fought a fucking war to end slavery. The fact that we had slavery is bad enough. It’s not like the country collectively woke up and decided it was bad to own people like property and quietly go about...NOT owning people. It took a straight up shooting war to do it. Since when is war a moderate policy?
Same thing for voting rights, labor rights, gay rights, abortion rights, civil rights. Every great and positive change in America happened because of protests, bloodshed,riots, assassination, amendments and people deciding to be anything but ‘centrist’ or ‘moderate’.
Trump as President exists because there are just enough white people in this country who can live with his bullshit. They are either well off enough to survive or even thrive with his attempts at managing the economy. Or they’re so racist that the just love him tormenting the ‘din-doos’, or the towelheads, or the spics. Or they are a nice mixture of both. How else do you explain the amazing lack of outrage at Trump wiping his ass with the Constitution?
Think about it. America: “WE CAN’T HAVE SOME SOCIALIST SPENDING OUR MONEY GIVING HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION TO EVERYBODY!”
Also America; “The lying, cheating, traitor who spends millions of taxpayer dollars GOLFING is gonna be hard to beat!”
LOL! It’s fucking absurd!
Certainly we wouldn’t have allowed Obama to have behaved in such a manner. We were supposed to be mad because he wore a tan suit for fuck’s sake.
Bernie Sanders is NOTHING like Trump. It’s insulting to even compare them. And as President if he can’t get all of his policies enacted then he’ll ge what he can...and that would be better than what we have. Better by a LONG shot.
And now...this...
Edited by David Allen Perrin on 21 February 2020 at 3:27am
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