You do realize claiming a candidate voting 1% more with GOP than Nancy Pelosi or getting small dollar donations from those who work in ol companies is disqualifying is not the same thing as saying someone who openly HATES gay people and attacks them with homophobic slurs is disqualifying right?
absolute funniest thing about this is she purchased both right at the peak so she wound up losing like 80% of that investment
It's all the funnier because these people are the same ones who apply "purity tests" to Kamala, Beto, Gillibrand, etc over nonsensical issues.
Honestly feels like "true leftism" is a political brand more than a coherent ideology with the way its built up. More about being anti-establishment than policy positions.
Black voters like Bernie the issue is do they like him enough to vote for him over other candidates. Given his 2016 race was against someone historically popular with black people and no one in the current race has the name recognition + popularity among black voters i think it remains to be seen if this will be a issue this time around. Maybe Joe Biden or Kamala will be a issue.
Which is hysterical because her poltics don't align with Bernie at all.
It's all about tribal politics and useless labels/buzz words.
Bingo
How do you explain those votes?
Continually voting against Russian sanctions or being absent isn't a conspiracy.
At worst he might be a tankie? Which sure as shit is disqualifying.
Make one.
I have way too much baggage and history with being very critical of Bernie to do it. I would love to but it would be doomed from the start.
It's bad enough that these old school leftist loonies defended the Soviet Union no matter what horrible crimes they committed during the Cold War, but are these Bernie/Corbyn-type 70 year old white dudes really politically savvy enough to be leading a major liberal political party in the year 2019 if they can't even figure out that Russia is now a right wing white nationalist (anti-gay, anti-women) proto-fascist oligarchy controlled by billionaires, and a hostile foreign power actively working to destroy the very countries whose interests they are supposed to represent?
Okay, so I need to unpack this a bit because there is a lot here. The reason Hillary was historically popular among black people was because she put in the legwork to be seen as such. Bernie did not in 2016, and has shown no evidence of doing anything sense. But even if he did somehow do that, he has bigger problems. His 2016 coalition simply does not exist in 2020. (It was three pronged: true supporters, anti-Clinton and protest voters).
If only we had some evidence that Russia, no longer able to compete as a global superpower since they have a crap military, declining population, and economy the size of Italy, was using asymmetrical warfare to destabilize the western order (Brexit, Trump, almost Le Pen in France, etc.)....
