2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton's opposition to the TPP is insulting [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... and someone like Bernie is the once in our lifetime candidate to give us that person as a potential leader.
And perhaps there are many Jewish Americans like many African Americans in last election who might understand that this is a unique opportunity for a Jewish person to be elected too. For most of us, much as that it is cool to have someone representing a minority religion to have that chance to be a leader, it isn't what he's running on in terms of "identity politics" that so many others have in the past emphasized more, but just one more aspect that defines his campaign that is a big change from what we are used to getting offered to us to vote for. Of course there are many of us would love to have Bernie for president who are just as strongly against someone like Netanyahu and what he represents as a voice in the middle east that has done a lot more damage than previous Israeli leaders have to the atmosphere there. I think that's a good reason why a Muslim like Keith Ellison also supports Bernie too but probably wouldn't support a personality like Netanyahu too.