Black people have had to live with systemic racism in this country their entire lives, they understand it’s baked into the process.
Telling them an old white politician is racist is like informing them the sun will rise in the east or that water is wet, they see it every day.
They’re paid less than similarly qualified white co-workers, they are treated differently by doctors than white people suffering from the same conditions, they are arrested at a higher frequency and receive harsher sentencing than caucasians, they are shot by police at a ridiculously higher rate, etc.
This is probably closer to the truth than it seems. These types attract people who are more interested in their personal self advancement than the realization of the goals of the group.
The Biden campaign is going to be the ultimate grifting bonanza for every scumbag dem lobbyist/consultant/etc. I hope I get the opportunity to be perpetually disgusted after he wins.
Imagine being so obsessed with something that you can’t imagine that someone else would be willing and able to step outside themselves and look at the bigger picture.
Not everyone thinks like you, dude.
My guy dropped out. Now I’m more concerned about the how and why of politics, and campaigns, and the fact that if Trump wins we’re fucked. I want Joe Biden to have the best fucking campaign staff and operation that he can. Clearly, right now, that isn’t happening. Bernie and Pete and Yang had the best digital games in town, hands down. Instead, Biden hired the Beto guy who refuses to expand his team and wants to be “scrappy”…which is ridiculous now that Biden is the nominee and being “scrappy” is entirely unnecessary.
I’m not an idealogue or zealot, and I know it’s hard for you to grasp, but right now i’m more interested in the process. Biden’s campaign is old school in a new school world, and this article shows why he needs to get with the program. And yes, it’s generational.
So rather than saying, “fuck, Biden, get with the program”, you decide it’s better to shit on…me?
Have you ever signed a statement called an NDA
Have you asked the grifting grifter why he grifts
Do you know the shape of hope and joy and people
Can you paint with all colors of the winddddd
I think you’re receiving pushback because you’re not being blunt enough in your description and this,
is still understating it. You’re saying we should trick them and… I kinda agree. At least, the idea has merit. Tell them about the quasisocialist goodies and when they ask if we’re also giving them to the minorities we act like we didn’t hear them.
“Give it to whom? The flax and the pelicans? Sorry you’re breaking up, I’m going through a tunnel.”
Then in power the blacks and mexicans obviously also get them and by the time the whites get to throw a tantrum in the voting booth again they’ll realize all the goodies are actually good and we’ll say, yeah, we tricked you, your daughter has insulin now and your son won’t be crippled by tuition debt, stfu and walk it off. It’s not a bad plan.
“Can you believe these dumb ass crackers think we’re not gonna also get you the sweet ass M4A? Lol I mean-WAIT SHHH one of them is coming! Ok everybody be cool.”
If the other people saying Bernie shoulda woulda coulda done _____ are really saying this, then fine. But no sense playing coy.
I’ve always liked this theory and its delicious 37d chess but I don’t believe it. Like, at all.
It made a resurgence again recently because black folks anywhere on the left were trying to cope with and rationalize their parents and dumbass cousins voting for Joe, but it’s nonsense.
The reality is, because black folks are never voting R, that Biden was 2016 Black TRUMP. And how 2016 was the year white folks really realized most white people are full of shit, 2020 was the year black folks really realized most black people are full of shit.
The same holds true among young, black voters. Although Biden’s Obama-era legacy sustained his loyalty primarily among black elders, black Democrats under 30 overwhelmingly supported Sanders.
If you have a good reason white posters ITT shouldn’t ground their arguments in the ostensible ‘personal experience’ of vast tranches of black South Carolinians, now’s the time to lay it out, Mr Smart Guy.
Part of that movement is the “I’m a Medicare for All Voter” campaign in South Carolina, which is organizing to build support for single-payer through community events and voter education sessions across the state. The campaign’s website states that “South Carolinians know our healthcare system is in crisis” and “they know there is only one cure: Medicare for All.”
Adolph Reed Jr., professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and an organizer with the campaign, toldDemocracy Now! on Wednesday that more than 10,000 South Carolinians since December have signed pledges "indicating that they’ll vote only for candidates who support Medicare for All."
Polling also indicates people all over the place (ie, not just SC) were voting for Biden, for Klobuchar, for fucking Buttigieg because they thought those candidates were pro-M4A. Maybe it’s neither racist nor like, patriarchal or whatever, to suggest black voters aren’t magically immune to that phenomenon?
When these candidates raised their hands saying they were in favor of Medicare for All then quietly released a press statement 3 days later retracting, or named their private insurer healthcare plan “Medicare for All… who want it”, or just responded to all healthcare questions by name dropping Obama 5x - it’s almost like they were TRYING to confuse voters!
