The worst thread I've ever seen on DU.

[MADem]

13. Hey, consider the source.

Anyone who proudly announces that they've got stupid relations (using a Scooby Doo reference) who will vote for a racist pig has greater issues than we can ever realize, I suspect.

For many Sanders supportters, the alternative is Trump and always has been. That is where the whole white, male, "bro" appeal comes from. This is not a secret. Sanders said, from the get-go, that he wanted to triangulate (only a bad word when Bill uses it) the voter bloc of WHITE WORKING MALES. He thought if he could capture that demographic, that with a few scraps and bits and hangers-on, he could build a movement. This is not new, either--he's been humping that POV for years:

2014: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2014/11/19/365024592/sen-bernie-sanders-on-how-democrats-lost-white-voters

2016: http://www.npr.org/2016/03/13/470278253/bernie-sanders-has-strength-among-white-men-pinched-by-the-economy

If employment were higher, his message might resonate. But the unemployment rate isn't that bad, and we know full well that this focus on the white guys doesn't address income inequality with black men and women. The idea that once all the white guys get work, that there will be jobs left over for the females and POC, that shit don't float. Who in their right mind--who isn't a white guy--would find that to be a respectable strategy?