Hey Saturnian! This is a perfect example of why things are messed up. Under this insane new definition of racism, which says racism is 'prejudice + power', calling someone "white boy", which is blatantly racist, no longer falls under the category.
I get where you're coming from crispy. It is an overblown story if they are claiming it's "horribly racist abuse". However, I'm not a fan of accepting racism towards anyone. This is literally the point of Pharrell's comments in the above article. Substitute any other group in for "white" and people would find it disgusting. So keep the standard for everyone.
Fair enough. I will retract the Wyoming point, as it was weakly based off the democrats long rejected idea of a 50 state strategy.
As for the primaries. I still think Bernie was the stronger general election candidate (better in open primaries, better with independents, more millennials support than trump/clinton combined) but it doesn't matter now, aside from, as I mentioned before, showing the direction The Democratic party should take in the future.
I'm of the opinion that the only people to blame for the Democratic Party's loss is the Democratic Party. I hope they learn from this, otherwise they're going to run Tim Kaine or Corey Booker in 2020 and lose again.
I didn't want to downplay the seriousness of Trump's bigotry or anything, I just thought there was a more constructive way to move forward.
Well, if you look at the data, a lot of counties in Ohio who voted Obama in 2012 switched to Trump this year. 90,000 people in Michigan voted, but left "president" blank. Clinton did not campaign once in Wyoming.
The numbers in the Democratic Primary should have been pretty revealing. Clinton swept the south (which was always going to go to Trump) and did poorly in the democratic firewall/rust belt against Bernie.
The Democratic Platform was, obviously, far superior to what Trump had to offer (aside from how he was strangely to the left of her on foreign policy half the time–not that anyone believed him–and on trade, since she was late to the part on opposing TPP), but she barely mentioned it during the debates and ignored the base after the primaries. Even her VP pick was a corporatist move.
For better or worse, it's a populist year and the democrats went with the biggest insider of all time. Many people already feel the establishment democrats have "sold their soul" to Wall Street/Donors, and it's getting harder and harder for them to convince the people otherwise. Fortunately it looks like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have a lot more political clout now (since they were right) and can drive the Democrats back towards representing the people. And, unlike Trump, they actually will represent the people since polling suggests the general public prefers liberal policies to, say, Trump's bullshit tax breaks for the rich.
So, this is pretty good. I'm hoping for maybe less of the throwback lo-fi production in the future, though, I don't know? This stuff has a lot of potential.
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