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In reply to the discussion: Vote for Hillary? Can't Get Fooled Again [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Americans are innately suspicious and distrustful. The majority of Americans have also been thoroughly brainwashed over the past thirty-plus years by corporate, pro-Republican American media.
When someone like Senator Sanders, an unapologetic Socialist, tries to run for the coveted WH, his past as a Socialist will be used against him by the corporate-backed, Republican-favoring U.S. media. He'd be painted a wishy-washy Dem, only changing his Party affiliation for political expediency, and that would make him look weak in the eyes of a-political American voters who will then easily fall prey to the inevitable dirty political ads by pro-GOP, pro-War billionaires who will spend hundreds of millions of dollars equating socialism with the dreaded C-word: communism. Given American people's deep-rooted fear of communism, how do you think the vast majority will vote?
his opponents were John "I'm suspending my campaign" McCain and Sarah "In what respect, Charlie?" Palin.
The collapse of our economy and Bush's unnecessary wars frightened most Americans, even Republicans, and I don't doubt that that had helped then Senator Obama. But now that the economy is rising, wars are spoken about in soft terms by our pro-war media, ObamaCare is improving with each passing month, jobs are opening up, and people are beginning to feel confident again (and will feel even more so by the time the presidential elections roll around), it's not going to be easy on the next Democratic presidential candidate - and we only need to look back to 1999 to see where that will take us.