2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The one thing that will stop Bernie Sanders.....his supporters [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)And that is the problem in his campaign. Life ain't all policy and numbers and ideology, if it were we would be robots. Black folks are very intelligent AND very expressive emotiinally and creatively. And we are loyal to a fault, look at how loyal we are to the democratic party, even wealthy black who would BENEFIT from the low tax policies republicans push. But most don't. Why? Because they are EMOTIONALLY tied to the black community, and they to them. We ARE like a big ass family, and we don't like the disrespect for one of our own for so many years from right AND left; the left who should have had his back but tried to stab him in it.
If you think elections aee won on policy, more power to ya. How the FUCK did Bush win? People liked him. People like Obama. We vote for the person in our own party who can win and that we like and feel comfortable with. We already know Hillary and she is saying what we want to hear. I agree with everything Bernie says and am 97% with him on policy. But as a human I have my likes and dislikes and emotions. He wanted Obama primaried. Not cool with that.
Now, I tried to tell you all to be nice to black folks if you want to win. I see that you think that is bad advice. Fine. Do it your way.