Bernie Sanders
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(8,352 posts)I and many others here are also PoC and Sanders supporters.
Yes, AA as a voting bloc can be just as susceptible to low information voting as any other bloc. These myths being pushed that somehow these communities are smarter is just that a myth.
All Americans are low information and easily swayed by propaganda from our MSM. Many forget that while we on DU knew that Lewis backtracked after his lie and insinuation, that Huerta was debunked in her lies by Snopes, and that Capeheart was caught red-handed pushing yet another lie that photographic proof of Sanders in the civil rights movement was fake, most Americans do not. Snopes wasn't covered on CNN. Lewis backpedaled on a weekend. And Huerta NEVER issued a retraction. And Capeheart continues to deny reality and never retracted his false story. This is what Sanders is up against. And yes, it is working.
It is irrational for AA's in the South to vote for Clinton. Oh sure, she will pray with a bunch of black preachers and alter her accent to sound like one of us, but in positions of power she has been no friend of the AA community. She has called us superpredators, pushed mass incarceration, gutted welfare, pushed the expansion of the 'drug war', etc.
And don't you dare lecture Sanders supporters on giving a shit about race when Clinton supporters started the objectification game by playing 'count the color folks' in Sanders rallies from day one of his announcement in Vermont. Don't you dare talk down to us, minority or white, when Clinton supporters praised BLM ONLY when it was going after Sanders and O'Malley, who to both of their credit internalized the message and made massive changes to their policies and stump speeches. Clinton continues to dismiss, condescend, and have escorted out BLM protesters that go after her.
If you are serious about Sanders message of us instead of Clintons message of mine then stop falling for the fucking lies here and elsewhere. All Democrats and leftists are suffering from "Stockholm Syndrome" when year after year for the last 40 they have voted supposedly for a progressive Democrat and got a right of center neoliberal. How long can the left hold their noses? I do think that name recognition is still a big issue. I supported Jesse Jackson but even I didn't know much about Sanders until the Iraq War run up. And even then I still didn't know a lot. Why would I? The Clintons have been on the public stage for good or bad for decades. And yes, the Master/Slave relationship is real. Whenever you or any leftist lets an authoritarian prick tell you you are a traitor and a retard for wanting 'free shit' and then you turn around and hold your nose and vote for a neoliberal anyway, I am sorry but you are a slave to the blue team.