2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My take on last night's election results from Kentucky [View all]Dustlawyer
(10,536 posts)as necessary so they are more susceptible to the propaganda.
I was at a friend's house the other day and we started talking politics. He runs his very small fence company (him and 2 helpers). He works 6 days a week 8-12 hours a day. He said he liked Donald Trump because he couldn't be bought off since my friend understood that Trump wasn't taking donations. He knew enough to be fed up with the corruption, but didn't really know Bernie because all he ever heard was that Bernie didn't have a chance and was "out there."
Of course I explained Bernie to him and encouraged him to start checking Bernie out. I also told him that wee were done if he voted for Trump. He was pleasantly surprised to hear the things that Bernie is for and is now a fan. My friend is the typical blue collar type and these are the people we need to reach. He would mistakenly vote against his interest because he believed the propaganda, not because of guns, racism, or any other such motivation.
When Bernie wins and we achieve Publicly Funded Elections, the second thing he must do is bust up the oligopolies in the media and banking! We need a scorched earth policy on anything to do with the ability of the Plutocrats/corporations to control or even influence our government again because they never stop trying for an unfair advantage, never!