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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2019 0:22:11 GMT -6
I mean... idk, there was alot of bernie or busters, and I think they costed a few key states that could've swung it. We were only 9k votes away, I'm sadly convinced there could've been 9k in swindled bernie votes (i know i fell prey to what I now know was a Russian orchestrated falsehood and wrote in Bernie sanders on the off chance that it was true, I figured I would rather gamble on an internet meme than encourage either Hillary's oligarchy or trumps dystopia). I think had people like me not done that, or the berners who vowed to vote trump here in retaliation might have had a serious effect on our election in my state. So as much as I'd like to say "eh... probably not" I think it's probably very true that Sanders would've won the election had the DNC not dicked him around. We'll have to see what happens. But I don't think the Russia shit will move the needle much in his favor. Only the undecided moderates not paying attention to what's going on right now in our streets and at our borders will have been affected and only minorly. Trumps widely disliked, and I think polls have demonstrated time and time again that America cannot actually stand him as a president. He's also making a very big show out of supporting the wealthy, which to me should send some serious signals to the non-idiots in our society. I'm more concerned that Elizabeth Warren will cost the support of the Progressive Left at this rate if she's not careful the entire progressive wing might pull from under her. A piece I read not too long ago that does a good job shedding light on why the "Democratic firewall" of WI (and, as one can imagine, MI, PN, even MN) broke down: www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-color-of-economic-anxietyI live in the "Greater Milwaukee" area, mainly suburbs, and my political volunteering takes place mostly out here where political affiliations are a mixed bag, but my activism took me to Milwaukee proper for one day of canvassing ahead of the 2018 midterms. Nobody down there is a Republican. NOBODY. And there's much more diversity out there than where I live. Yet I encountered voters who chewed me up and laughed me away for telling them to vote for the Dems on the ballot. Again, this was late 2018, so we had almost two years of Trump in the books (and over a decade of SCOTT WALKER LOL). We had a pretty decent batch of candidates here, too. The Dems have taken labor and people of color for granted for a very long time, knowing they have no constituency in the other party, but after years of not really seeing their vote make a (significant) difference, these voters no longer feel like they "have" to vote Dem or else. They will do so if and only if the party produces some worthwhile candidates. And I'm not convinced that there isn't a sizable faction within the party that prefers to appeal to a much narrower base of voters, whose interests are a lot less at odds with the "bourgeoisie" if you will (and thus are a lot more receptive to their centrist-y, "New Democrat" politics).
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