My savior!
Today, it is perhaps the most relevant photo of the sixteen, but some of the others, which do not feature Bernie Sanders, are more gripping.
Some of Sandersâ Democratic Party adversariesâŚ
Any particular adversaries? Who would those be? Has Lincoln Chaffee been making trouble again?
Iâd be 100% on board with muck-raking, agitating Bernie - EXCEPT that heâd still toss Edward Snowden in jail from what I can tell.
On the other hand, thereâs no way in hell Iâm voting for his rival.
Is this the same Democratic Party adversary that claims Sanders is a single issue candidate?
To be fair, CORE was an interracial group from its founding and thatâs the group he was working with.
I also, think there is a reason heâs not trumpeting the fact that he did this, because he wantâs to avoid the âwhite saviorâ meme, because he realizes itâs patronizing. And it is.
And she was working for Goldwater in the 60s, so, yeah.
Iâm sure if his skin was darker he would have faced much worse.
Kind of highlights the age of these candidates, donât you think?
but she came around. Eventually.
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Your graphic states that Sanders âclaims he sacrificed for racial equality.â Can you provide a quote showing that Sanders used the word âsacrificedâ in that context?
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The fact that I did not meet him in the movement does not mean I doubted that Sen. Sanders participated in the Civil Rights Movement, neither was I attempting to disparage his activism. Thousands sacrificed in the 1960s whose names we will never know, and I have always given honor to their contribution. - Representative John Lewis.
Letâs not employ cheap derision against those that we purport to be allied with.
Sure. And I donât think that her having worked for Goldwater is necessarily to her detriment over all, because people can change and there is nothing wrong with coming to a new point of view as one ages. I will say that I think the democrats have moved to the right since the Clinton years (or maybe since the Carter years?), and I do think that the Clintons are in part responsible for that, given their pragmatism. They are willing to go with the flow and embrace corporatism, if a more measured kind, rather than backing an agenda that I agree with. Maybe Iâm just getting more radical as I age, but Iâm really at the point where enough is enough.
What he needs is a shill at a press conference to bring this up so he can say basically what you said âIâm not some hero, the real heroes are the black men and women who stood up to this awful bigotry every day and persevered.â
Thatâs one of the endearing things about Bernie, he doesnât need a shill. Heâs said it himself, last August, in South Carolina.
It got 48 views. What he needs is help amplifying his message.
Yeah, except he doesnât strike me as the kind of guy whoâd use a shill (even for something like this). Heâs been pretty focused on his core message and hasnât wavered on that, even when the general election conversation has shifted, like it did with the Paris attacks. I saw him at a rally a couple of weeks after that happened, and he didnât even mention it⌠it was amazing, actually, because thatâs what everyone else has shifted to. Then again, that could work to his disadvantage when it comes to social justice/civil rights issues, as not everyone prioritizes economic issues, for good reasons.
I find it continually amazing to read any number of highly engaged people talking about Sanders (and Trump) as if their campaigns are somehow similar to the campaigns that have worked in the last 30 years or so.
Both of them are campaigning from the outside in, a huge shift. Kucinich tried it a few years ago and got basically nowhere. Nader tried it more than once and it is an open question whether he did more harm than good.
But the ground has shifted and most of our media sources are still reporting as if itâs a classic horserace and campaign for who can get the most money in donations etc. I really think we are into a different era here. Very dangerous (Trump etc), but also very full of opportunity for positive changes.
My wife is a lifelong activist and campaigner who has slowly morphed into a sort of lobbyist, albeit from a progressive point of view. Where we live she has learned to work with the machine to get anything done, which makes a lot of sense in an incrementalist, constructive engagement process. However, that only applies when the ground is solid. I donât think that is what is happening in the current US presidential race.
Nobody expected Sanders or Trump to be anything like a viable candidate. Half of what I read is some form of the âhow did this happenâ article or post, where everyone who âknows how things workâ is trying to write this off as a statistically weird artifact. Thatâs not what is happening.
To be honest I think the party machines on both sides will eventually make sure neither Trump nor Sanders get the nomination (though Trump might pull it off as the Rs are in the process of self destructing). If either of them actually does get the nomination I hope they get extremely good security teams, as there are some seriously powerful vested interests who would not want them to succeed.
But they are both laying the groundwork for another model of political reality - which has yet to be recognized as anything but anomaly by the current insiders. I donât think the future will look much like the past. If we get the economic upheaval that is currently being predicted by many over the next few years, I think the next few elections are going to be utterly terrifying and exhilirating. We live in interesting times.
Thatâs exactly why he needs a shill.
I donât think of a shill as inherently evil, itâs just a tool to draw attention to a message. Itâs the message itself that is good or bad. Public Enemy used a Hype Man (Flava Flav) to great effect, and it didnât detract from their message.
/My grandfather was a carnival shill when he was a little kid so I have a soft spot for the trade.
I shudder to think what would happen to the USA, nay, the world if Candidate or even President Sanders or Trump was assassinated, especially through some murky scheme perpetrated by apparent special-interest groups.
The upheaval would be terrifying.
None of this was ever really about Bernie. And it never came from Hillaryâs campaign. It came from Black people (including some of us who support Bernie) who were tired of patronizing white Sanders supporters showing up and spamming us with âBernie marched with MLKâ in response to every single question or criticism of Sanders by Black people.
