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Meant to quote Juices first post
just so many good posts to quote
Meant to quote Juices first post
Dude I get that you don't personally "like" Bernie, but you are absolutely projecting here. There's a mountain of polling data showing his overall likeability and popularity. Hillary had a well established name recognition and loyalty among the Dem base, particularly women and african americans, plus she was the hand picked successor to Obama. Its a lot more than just personality.Hillary and the DNC shooed away the competition because she was very beatable. Bernie’s success shows a likable candidate with his message would have won.
People like Bernie’s politics, not his personality. I’m going off observing how people talk about him.
Last spring, a Harvard-Harris poll found Sanders to be the most popular active politician in the country. African Americans gave the senator the highest favorables at 73 percent — vs. 68 percent among Latinos, 62 percent among Asian Americans and 52 percent among white voters. It wasn’t a fluke: This August, black voters again reported a 73 percent favorability rating for Sanders. Critics, such as Starr, continue to point to the senator’s 2016 primary numbers among older African American voters to claim that his message somehow doesn’t resonate with people of color as a whole — and continue to ignore that, according to GenForward, Sanders won the black millennial vote in the primaries.
Ph’s Bernie Sanders takes are just weird.
I get that you don’t like the dude, but damn.
What do you like about Bernie?
What do you like about Bernie?
We seem to be falling into the same trap of falling for Obama, Beto, Macron types with "personality" or a popular identity, without regard for a candidates platform. If we nominate and/or elect a Beto type, it will feel to me like we learned nothing from the past 10-15 years. We can't keep combating fascism with centrism. It doesn't work.
That he's more principled than 99% of the neoliberal shitheads that make up the democratic party. And he supports an economic platform that will improve the lives of millions of americans, whether black, white, latinx, etc.
I have posted about this before. None of my reasons have anything to do with his personality or self-styled conspiracies that he’s suppressing progressive presidential candidates. This is a presidential election, not a popularity contest.
So it’s about ideology, not personality. Which is exactly my point. What people like about him is what could most easily be duplicated.