2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Again... "In Front Of His Staff" - MLK, Bernie Sanders, And Democratic Socialism... [View all]Babel_17
(5,400 posts)A straw man argument that it's those horrible Sanders posters that change peoples support.
Some of the nicest, most generous, people I know are Republicans. They are often clueless to many things, for example when we destroyed Iraq in search of WMDs. Their being generous people doesn't sway me politically. I had a very generous boss* that I had to piss off as I insisted on leaving the company yard to go vote for Obama in 2012. We were doing hurricane cleanup and got back very, very, late. I suspected he was deliberately keeping us (Union laborers) hanging out as he had surmised how those of who voted would vote. Suppressing the vote was a bit of a thing at the time**. I finally said I have leave now to vote. He asked, well who are you voting for? Lol, I replied, "I'm voting for jobs!".
I'm always amazed at how employers in the construction field forget how it's Democrats that prime the pump. But I digress.
Many of the anti-war activists were/are rude, arrogant, and angry, pundits. But that never stopped me from looking at the facts they presented. I saw the lies that were getting passed off by the administration and tried to spread the word.
Many of the pro-invasion people I knew IRL were a great bunch, and many of the anti-war crowd were uncomfortably cynical, but this was a real life and death issue, and it wasn't about sitting with the cool kids in the cafeteria. You spoke what you thought was the truth.
*Truly. He'd keep people working when his subordinates would favor layoffs. We earned union wages but still got free stuff like clothes, turkeys, gift certificates, and lots of kind words. He just though Romney was a god send and didn't want us to vote for Obama.
**https://occupywallst.org/forum/two-steps-backward-suppressing-the-vote-in-2012/