2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)There would be no distinction from Clinton and no reason to be opposing her.
The long term is worse, in an effort to "win" embracing or being silent on bad policy means buying it and owning it, abandoning even the space to voice opposition to what is known to be wrong in the first place.
Maybe you are arguing put on the show and then just do the opposite while giving Obama the credit for how we are moving forward forcing him to either accept it or call bullshit on the con. Not my style and feels in the neighborhood of condescending and the wrong way to operate but maybe my hair was a mess because my mother didn't exactly know how to deal with it or something (and yes she could fuck it up, had me with a Richard Simmons do one time but since my sisters' were fine I think it was more a boy thing and an experimental personality) and I just don't quite "get it" and am "out of the mainstream".
Sure black folks can be conservative but not usually Turd Way flavor but really most often more socially like not too hip on gay rights or abortion, can be dangerously and ironically fall for the tough on crime and drug worrier crap.
However, hand wringing about taxes, too much regulation, and government spending or in a panic about "terror" have never been really big that I've ever seen.
The Turd Way isn't any tip of the hat to a lot of black people's conservative and/or religious streaks, it is an appeal to Raygun Democrats, softer TeaPubliKlans, and the more secular right libertarians include corporate bigwigs and those running the banks and Wall Street, all or predominately white folks.