Why Bernie Sanders’ problems with black voters go much deeper than him just blaming the media

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101. With viability, it's not just visibility, but stances on issues that voters are waiting for...

I think there's a lot more voters that Sanders can appeal to than those in the corporate media claim what they define as a "far left" candidate appeals to. That's a label, and they can continue to use that label, as long as they control his visibility, and stances on issues are put down in to the noise level until we finally start a real election process with some debates a couple of weeks from now.

Trump is leading the Republicans and aside from the appeal that he has to many of the extremists with his xenophobic rants, I think there's also a lot of support from those who don't like the TPP and H-1B Visas (that play to them with the xenophobic augmentations, that don't appeal to us Bernie supporters on the left, but who also dislike the PTB's stances on these issues that take away many people's jobs and hurt people globally in terms of jobs, not just here). They also like that he's not beholden to corporate donor money if he has his own money to spend on his campaign. The voters that like independence from corporate donors and who hate job stealing programs like TPP and H-1B are those that will be more likely to switch over to vote for Bernie than those who would switch over for Hillary.

His issues stances are supported by a majority of Americans as polls have shown, and many who up until now are judging him by name recognition will see these stances during the debates, as long as the topics of the debates aren't totally skewed to topics that don't threaten the corporate PTB.

Many of us Bernie supporters, though some try to mischaracterize Bernie's stances on gun regulation, much as a number of people did the same to fellow Vermonter Howard Dean before he left the campaign in 2004. But I'm trying to personally use the increased conscience of fellow Oregonians of gun violence needing an answer to be conscientious not to disregard the case of what I think may be another case of excessive law enforcement violence here in Portland area just a day after the events in Roseburg as noted in this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141223431

The woman in question here that was killed still hasn't been identified and may be a person of color. But given that there's no video record of what happened, all the more reason we need to bird dog the news as it comes out, and look for inconsistencies, etc. and call them out on it when they happen to ensure that justice is done. If it is a person of color, perhaps we can get that much more awareness of the need to change the system here in Oregon to protect citizens more from the abuses of law enforcement with what else has happened here the last few days, and the horror of people getting shot is more affecting us all here.

We care, and just in this county where this incident occurred, there recently was a resolution by our county's Democratic party passed on this topic here:

http://www.washcodems.org/sites/washington.oregondemocrats.org/files/attachments/Deadly%20Force%20-rev_1.pdf

Let's work together on these issues. I believe Bernie wants these outcomes too, and have seen nothing that anyone has shown that he hasn't also been as concerned and willing to work help solve such issues.