Turning Democrats from Hillary to Bernie. [View all]

[Cleita]

Four of us Democrats set up a table for registration and immigration issues at a fiesta in the small hamlet of Guadalupe in Santa Barbara County yesterday, Saturday May 9th. The town sits on the edge of the Guadalupe Dunes, where famously Cecil DeMille filmed his spectacular, "The Ten Commandments".

http://dunescenter.org/visit-the-dunes/dunes-center/exhibits-and-activities-research/the-lost-city-of-demille/.

The town is mainly populated by the Mexican farm workers and their descendants who worked on and many still work on the surrounding miles of fields of produce. My fellow Democrats were all Hillary supporters. I believe by the end of the day I had converted them to Bernie supporters or at least to look at him as a serious candidate.

Anti-Bernie point #1. He doesn't have a chance because he doesn't have the big donors. I pointed out that in his first five days after his announcement that he had raised 3 million dollars and 175,000 volunteers. That left them speechless until one Hillary supporter admitted that it was impressive.

Anti-Bernie point #2. He doesn't have the Washington experience Hillary does. I answered. He's been in the Senate for almost two terms, in the House of Representatives for sixteen years and was Mayor of Burlington, Vermont before that. The only experience Hillary has that he doesn't is being First Lady.

Anti-Bernie point #3. He has that Dennis Kucinich factor. I quoted Thom Hartmann on this. Thom said that the difference between Dennis and Bernie is that when reporters asked Dennis Kucinich if he believed in UFOs, Dennis said, yes. Bernie would say that the people aren't interested in his opinion of UFOs. They are interested in their jobs, in Social Security, putting food on the table and educating their kids, so ask him questions about those things.

Then the other woman in our group said she wanted a woman President to which even one of the men replied that other women could be President besides Hillary so it didn't have to be her turn and then admitted he was bothered about the dynasty question of another Clinton in the White House. Then everyone agreed that there should be other candidates challenging Hillary and bringing her to the debate.

All in all I think I did well. I have no problem argueing down right wingers because facts will usually shut them up but other Democrats are harder to argue with, but it seems that our party spreads disinformation too.