“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
This. Considering Trump treats women as objects instead of people will make your scenario all the more likely. No matter how hard his henchmen insist Trump lay off misogynistic attacks, he won't be able to help himself, hell, he'd be more likely to launch attacks because he won't like anyone telling him what to do. And, of course, neither "Be Best" Melania or Ivanka will say **** or try to stop him, making them first class hypocrites, something we already knew.
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Then black people finally got to vote in large numbers (South Carolina), Sanders lost his lead and never recovered, and Sanders supporters started claiming that black people are the "establishment" instead of simply acknowledging that Democratic candidates can't win without strong African-American support.
Knight still blows off the votes of "minorities" in his quest to support "progressive" politics -- only showing concern when they serve his purposes.
Now the quest is to argue that Biden is a worse candidate than Sanders, despite Sanders consistenly losing primary elections by landslide numbers.
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Cold logic probably doesn't suggest Warren would be a good choice.
In the primaries, she did well with with a particular group: highly educated white people. This led to a sense among many of her supporters that something was amiss: How did she evaporate from the top tier of contention, especially since so many of the people they know also like her?
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/3/2116252...izabeth-warren
The explanation is that the people educated white left-leaning people regularly interact with are disproportionately likely to be educated white left-leaning people and ultimately a small subset of the population. It's not enough to come close in the primary, and they're not really a swing group in the general election.
If Biden wins, his running mate will be the first female Vice President. She'll probably be more of an establishment favorite than he was as a former Vice President in his late seventies.
There may be a different primary map if Biden's Vice President isn't African-American, as that leaves an opening in the South Carolina primary.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
And therein was the problem for Sanders. For all the fervent, sometimes rabid support from his base, the fact those people apparently couldn't have been bothered to vote for Bernie says they were all talk and no action. And now with Sanders having bowed out, those followers will whine and bitch about how bad Biden is, how he's a lapdog for the Democratic establishment and how he'll be routed in the election by Trump, yadda yadda yadda. That said, I had no problem (well, not much of one) with Sanders and would've voted for him in November if he were the candidate, it's those fair weather supporters who wear on my patience.
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Nearly everyone here on the "left" and in the "center" has said that they would vote for Sanders as their non first-choice nominee.
There's only one candidate's supporters who seem to think their personal politics are worth allowing Trump to have a second term in office.
I keep seeing a lot of the same people who told me that Sanders was going to crush the Democrats, that they were gonna have to 'bend the knee' to him, and that the establishment was done and that Biden was done for, now telling me with absolute certainty that Biden WILL lose to Trump.
I'm not exactly sure why I should trust their political judgment.
Then again, these are the same people who think moderate candidates with no viable path dropping out to endorse another moderate somehow amounts to 'rigging'.
I like to think not all of Sanders' followers are foam at the mouth, bay at the moon zealots like that lot, but it's damn hard not to paint them all with the same broad brush when they spew such repugnant nonsense. I've seen on Twitter that those same zealots have been brutally slamming civil rights icon John Lewis after he declared his support for Joe Biden a few days ago, it's like anyone who doesn't prostrate themselves before Sanders are either sellouts or the enemy of the progressive cause. In a way, those zealots are like Trump's toxic followers, two sides of the same coin.
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Which brings up a problem I've had with Sanders for years, that being his inability, or unwillingness to bring those recalcitrant followers to heel and make them behave like responsible adults. Was that an unreachable goal? Perhaps, but, at the very least, Sanders should've put his foot down long ago and told those zealots to cool it with their toxicity.
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It's fair to point out that some of this could be disinformation -- an attempt by outsiders to cause chaos and interfere with our democratic process.
Not to say all of them as we've dealt with many of them here firsthand -- but enough to cause problems going into the general election.
Even when you acknowledge the positive things Sanders brings to the table -- as Biden repeatedly has -- they still try to claim that you "hate" them. That shows they aren't interested in a rational dialogue and instead feel that their "victimization" justifies any sort of terrible behavior they enact on others, whether it's Clinton, Beto, Harris, Warren, Bloomberg, Biden (etc) or their supporters.
It would make a lot more sense to just accept the loss and plan how best to move forward in the future -- protecting the Supreme Court seats should be a priority in that respect. Vote Biden into office and then support any progressive gains made by Biden during his presidency by voting in the midterms as well so Republicans don't just roll back any and all "progress". Elect more progressive candidates nationwide so they can pass progressive legislature in Congress. Set up for the future by building on the foundation of what has already been built instead of trying to tear everything down just because your chosen candidate and political ideology didn't win the nomination.
That's how it's done -- they want all of the perks of victory but don't want to put in the real work to make it happen.
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