2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAttacking Bernie Sanders' socialism is not going to work
Probably why some Hillary supporters are going for the communist label, which is so outlandish that it won't work as well.
From the article: Will Labeling Bernie Sanders a 'Socialist' Stop His Rise?
To some extent, Sanders may be capitalizing on changing attitudes since the Great Recessionlingering anger among progressives about the slow recovery and about the way financial institutions got off mostly scot-free. But hes also probably driving the increased acceptance of socialism. In early May, about a week after Sanders announced his candidacy, YouGov found Democrats evenly divided on socialism vs. capitalism, 43-43. In mid-October, with Sanderistas in full swing, that had switched to 49-37. Republican messaging guru Frank Luntz sees a similar shift, and attributes it to the Sanders candidacy.
highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)Pushing back is the natural reaction to being pushed "too far".
But what is too far and how does one push back?
Bernie is leading a movement to push back against the system that has almost fully destroyed America's Middle Class, once the envy of the world, and by extension anyone who was doing less well than that as well.
We need to push back, and we need top push back hard, with every bit of volunteering, donating, expressing, collaborating, voting energy that we have.
draa
(975 posts)Let a little sunshine in. The fresh air is good for the soul.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)and the cars that passed either ignored us or put a thumbs up or honked their horns. But there were a few who roared their motors and some yelled communist, socialist (meaning communist).
Triana
(22,666 posts). . . it's highly ignorant, for one thing:
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Clinton is completely out of touch with younger voters.