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In reply to the discussion: 87% of African Americans view Hillary Clinton favorably [View all]BainsBane
(57,690 posts)And a weak and transparent cover. The subject of the OP makes clear who you were talking about. The attitude you and others express in this thread is precisely why you will always be politically irrelevant. You believe you are more informed. Your comments that supporting Clinton equates with siding with the 1 percent proves otherwise. You all have created a fictional narrative that has nothing to do with Clinton herself but rather says a great deal about those who perpetrate it. Secondly, the Sanders crowd has worked diligently to exclude as many people from consideration as Democrats as possible. When you take that sort of attitude, pretending to be superior without any justification, coupled with a bourgeois elitism, no one outside your little in crowd is going to want to have a thing to do with you.
When posters here have raised concerns about the open longing to return to an idealized past when most of us were denied basic rights, they have been met with rude hostility. The entire ethos advanced is a narrow class- and race based agenda in which some assume they speak for everyone else but steadfastly refuse to as much as listen to their concerns.
If anyone is responsible for Sanders' poor standing among people of color, the poor, and the working class, it is the insufferable elitism on the part of his supporters. We should all forget our concerns in order to promote the great and noble struggle of the 10 percent vs. the 1 percent.
Why you think anyone would view people who behave that was as different from the 1 percent or bankers, I have no idea. They show at least as much contempt for our lives and interests as they do, as is demonstrated by your assumption that anyone who disagrees with you must be uninformed.