2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Leaders who support Hillary Slam Bernie Sanders on race issues [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Your criticism was what Bernie did or didn't do for POC. That is John Lewis's action in endorsing Hillary. We don't know the dynamics behind endorsements these days! Money talks in a lot of ways, even for very good people, and its hard to make a complete judgement on people's actions these days with such a corrupt system we live under.
Bernie seems about as authentic to me as it gets as far as politicians go in what he campaigns on and then at least tries to get done, and is one of the few politicians whose actions aren't bought by others.
Americans want that. Even though many of us hate Trump too, his big draw is that he also is one of the few Republicans that isn't "bought by other people". Now he is one of the wealthy himself who likely has bought other people and their actions, but being his own man probably speaks to a lot of Republicans who are also fed up with the corruption we have now.