2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Right-wing memes [View all]BainsBane
(57,752 posts)that won't be happening now. People can't degrade a movement for the very lives of the single most reliable Democratic voting block and then expect to get them to vote for one's candidate. We have seen racism rear its head in order to promote what some clearly see as the far more important matter of one man's political fortunes. The well has been poisoned. People have showed black voters and the rest of us what they really are, and I feel pretty sure I'm not alone in wanting none of it. I stand up for racial justice and equality, and I stand in absolute opposition to those who denounce that in order to promote a single man's career. This will not be forgotten, ever. Either people are all too willing to throw every semblance of principle out the window, or they are finally revealing who they really are. Whichever it is, it is deplorable. That event might have simply been a stumble for Sanders, but some of his supporters took to Twitter and social media to show their contempt for African Americans and in the process--I predict--destroyed Sanders electoral chances.