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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Sat May 7, 2016, 05:21 AM May 2016

DNC wakeup call

In my experience, those who identify as Democrats will support the Dem nominee, clothespins or not. Alienated voters attracted to Sanders probably won't, but I don't really see how they got 91%, unless they are strictly looking only at alienated voters.

https://theineffablesonder.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/dnc-this-is-your-wake-up-call/

The younger generation, the millenials who are professed to be the so-called “majority” of Bernie Sanders’ supporter base have inherited the debts and mistakes of lawmakers who have only represented such a small portion of the American population that there’s nothing left for them to identify with or relate to.

Roughly 23% of the whole, these millenials have no false sense of entitlement – the “good old days” of social and economic equality are completely unknown to them. Is it any wonder why their ideals are pushed off and seen as “lofty,” “pie in the sky,” and dismissed as near impossible?

Establishment politics and government have stamped a bar code on the foreheads of the middle class and the poor. The DNC has treated us more like a consumer base than the supporters of a candidate… And don’t get me started on the mainstream media. Sanders has been branded a socialist, far left, “fringe candidate.” Meanwhile, the narrative is “Trump is scary, please vote for Hillary regardless.” Only we’re not buying it.

If we owe the millenials anything within this entire campaign, it’s most certainly their proclivity to obtaining credible information from the areas they’ve been most accustomed. (The internet, YouTube, social media, etc.)

As a result, like a tidal wave, the vast majority of Sanders’ supporters quit buying into the propaganda machine, that in previous elections was the mechanism you all have used to garner support for your preferred candidates.

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Donkees

(31,531 posts)
2. Re: narrative is “Trump is scary, please vote for Hillary regardless.”
Sat May 7, 2016, 10:33 AM
May 2016

How could Chelsea and Ivanka be best friends?

Left Coast2020

(2,397 posts)
4. When Bernie wins at the convention, Debbie Downer and Wolf Blitzzzzzer
Mon May 9, 2016, 01:51 AM
May 2016

Should be forced to eat a booger on The Situation Room.

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