2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: BLM Needs to Be Marginalized and Go Away If It Is Going to Attack Natural Allies Like Bernie... [View all]fbc
(1,668 posts)Just look around these forums to see how many friends they won with their action the other day. And it seems like many of the people here who supported the action are just Hillary fans happy about seeing their nemesis take a public hit. Those aren't real supporters. Those are people who would be complaining as loud as the Sanders supporters if it had been their candidate.
How do you think that act is going to go over on the Republican side? You know, the side that currently controls both houses of congress. Actions like the one at the social security event have more chance of inspiring a "militarize the police more" act than it does of winning sympathetic ears.
And that leaves out the obvious point that Bernie didn't just pop up a civil rights section that he hurriedly copy/pasted from google searches in response to the #BLM action. They've been working on that for weeks.