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If you're a 20-something white Bernie supporter who thinks things suck bc u have college loans & have to get off your parents health care at 26 & the gig economy is insecure AF, I'd like to introduce you to ANY black person over 40 so you can stop your fucking whining. Thanks.
or for that matter...any black person at all...
and yes I know lots of black folks support Bernie...shit I support most of his platform and have all but endorsed him here...but these whiny ass white 20 somethings need perspective on what actual suffering is like and POC including those voting for OTHER folks can provide it
and when you insult those POC you are an asshole who deserve to be mocked, ridiculed, ignored and made miserable..forever...
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1/ Folk counseling prayer as a solution to COVID-19 aren't just fools but assholes. How hard ya figure enslaved folk prayed for God to end their captivity? How hard ya think abused kids pray for an end to their torture? But it doesn't work. WE have to solve problems. Same here..
2/ To think there's a God who'd intervene in THIS case but NOT to end hunger & disease claiming millions of lives annually is to believe in an evil, capricious creator who allows mass suffering on a whim, occasionally responding to heavenly entreaties but mostly not. It's sick..
3/ ...and amounts to relinquishing OUR agency and responsibility for helping one another, ensuring health care resources, building and sustaining just and caring communities, and acting responsibly towards one another...
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...if Bernie loses it will not be an establishment conspiracy. Most people just don’t agree w/him or don’t feel he can win. And you can’t shame them into changing their minds on either. You have to demo electability w/turnout not just promise it. That’s how politics works.
And no he couldn’t win as a 3d party candidate...He would just ensure (or others like him) a GOP win every time. Some folks really don’t understand the American public & think most are progressive left like us — they aren’t. Only people in left bubbles think that shit. Wake up
And do not waste my time or your Twitter fingers saying “but this survey right here shows most ARE progressive.” That’s abstract. In elections the other side paints your free health care as a handout to “those people” and white folks follow them off a cliff. Real world...
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Sadly this is true. But then the same can be said of Bernie’s hardcore too... both sides seem to think guilting or threatening the other or saying suck it up is enuf... and frankly both are sorta right. Whoever emerges does have a right in the face of Trumpism to say that.
Building workable coalitions at election time really does mean earning the votes of people who don’t think like you on lots of things. Neither side seems very good at that skill so far. Bernie’s not interested in earning moderate votes either.
He was prepared to go to convention with 30 percent and force capitulation based on plurality. How is that about earning votes? It’s not
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