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[Sancho]

251. Obviously, Bernie agrees with you...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-looks-past-south-carolina-loss/

"There's no way we're going to lose Minnesota. I can see that," he said. "You are just too smart."

It's that attitude that ensures Hillary will win the Sunbelt - from Florida to California.

"Exit polls from SC show 19% want more progress, the other 81% are happy with the way things are or want to go backward."

I worked for Richard Riley, two term Democratic Governor of SC and Clinton's Sec. of Education. South Carolinians want change! Gerrymandering and voter manipulation are the real national problem - much more of a problem than Citizen's United. ALEC is more of a problem than inequality. Bernie is wrong, and he doesn't resonate with people who want change.

"1% of the under 30 crowd voted and it's probably because they are scared."

Young people don't vote. Bernie is hooking his star to a pretty poor wagon to depend on young people.

"The poor people of that state have my utmost sympathy. They have been beaten down and oppressed for so long they don't know what's up."

The poor in SC want SOCIAL JUSTICE...not just economic justice. If Bernie or anyone else wants to win the South as a Democrat, they need to understand that fact. Year's ago I picked tobacco in SC and GA alongside migrants. I worked through college in textile mills. When those jobs went overseas, it was a mixed blessing - the jobs also came with virtual indentureship for black and white alike. The international investments in SC are usually better employers even though there are fewer jobs. Even to hourly workers in SC decades ago, it was obvious that globalization is more often a cause of their problems than some Wall Street bank, and that some kind of international action (maybe a trade agreement, maybe some other kind of deal) is the only way to get a handle on fair competition and currency manipulation.

As a teacher in SC, I saw the way that education changed lives - and raising the minimum wage is not a substitute for simply ensuring that there are good public schools. Again, Hillary is more on track with this and Bernie is off base. Mandatory preschool, equal opportunity for educational success, and educational equality for Dreamers is the key, not free tuition.

Even though I would have voted to hide your OP if I had been on the jury, it would make sense for anyone looking at this primary to see why Bernie cannot get traction with most of the Democrats. It's not the DNC or a CT involving the media. It's simply because Bernie's focus is inconsistent with the concerns of most progressive Democrats, minorities, and immigrants. Careful analysis also shows that Hillary is a better candidate for most unions too. There are good reasons for that view. The SC primary just demonstrated Bernie's weaknesses.