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pnwmom's JournalThe White Entitlement of Some Bernie Sanders Supporters
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I think this writer makes some good points. And also that, for some, there is an unconscious aspect of "male entitlement."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/05/the-white-entitlement-of-some-sanders-supporters.html
If you’re young, white and privileged, you don’t expect to lose. When you do, it must be because you got cheated. Blacks know better.
At first I tried to ignore the conversation and thought they were Trump supporters (“Killary” is usually a right-wing thing). But once it became clear that these guys were Sanders supporters, I had to jump in. For years, these guys had been “my people.” I have been a fan of Sanders long before his presidential run and have made many friends due to our mutual admiration of his policies. Surely, I’d be able to have a civil, rational conversation with these guys, right?
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Essentially, we disagreed on what America supposedly promised or owed us. They felt success was promised to them. The entitlement to believe that you should always win allowed them to overlook how the system in many ways has always been unjustly rigged in their favor because they’re white. I brought up race during our conversation and how I’m very aware of how a system can be rigged against you. These guys acknowledged my point, but it was obvious that this reality did not factor much into their thinking. They felt aggrieved and cheated, and that was all that mattered.
They could not understand the perspectives of blacks, Latinos and other minorities in America who are regularly treated as threats to society before their voices can be heard. We are often silenced before we even have the chance to win. And as a result, we know that losing is a reality we will confront and that success can be a difficult and long process that may only show its face in the lives of our children or grandchildren who have more opportunities because we’ve spent a lifetime fighting for positive change.
These guys could not understand this struggle. They wanted immediate success and gratification, and they were not used to things not going their way. The issues and the lives of others had become irrelevant. All they wanted was for me to agree that they had been unjustly cheated, and that “Killary” and the DNC had rigged everything against them. I could not agree, so I had to walk away.
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White entitlement is shaping up to be a critical issue during this election for both the Democrats and the Republicans. Trump and the GOP are championing the entitled white life of yore. But the Democrats have another dilemma and must figure out a way for their diverse electorate to converse and unite around the shared goals of equity and progress without the archaic divisions and privileges of the past. Thus far it looks like the Democrats and the Sanders campaign still have a lot of work to do.
With Hillary only 28 delegates away from clinching the nomination, Bernie demands
the Associated Press overturn 32 years of precedent and NOT call the race on Tuesday, when Hillary wins the majority of all delegates – pledged and super.
The "presumptive nominee" shouldn't celebrate with a victory speech, either -- that would be so presumptuous. How dare she?!
He insists on a brand new practice – just in time for his race against the first women ever to get this far – that the AP and the rest of the media shouldn’t call the winner till after the first vote at the convention.
How convenient.
But not a surprise. This is what happens when a woman stands on the edge of change. Some man tries to block her.
So Bernie has announced he wants several more weeks to try to rip the nomination away from Hillary, by appealing to unelected super delegates. The same super delegates he claims are part of a “rigged system.”
He thinks this is fair even though by Tuesday Hillary will also have a majority of all pledged delegates – the ones chosen by the voters.
Even though she is millions of votes ahead.
Even though there is no chance that hundreds of super delegates and pledged delegates will decide to flip to him, denying the nomination to the woman who has received millions more votes than he has, from a diverse coalition of voters across the country.
The first woman to win the Democratic nomination in history – and her diverse supporters -- should not and will not be treated with such disrespect. Not by the AP, at least.
Time will tell, with Bernie.
The DailyKos diary below traces how, in every election since 1984, when super delegates were first introduced, the winner has been called when he reached a simple majority of all delegates combined – pledged delegates and supers.
According to the AP, Hillary is now only 28 delegates away from this milestone.
https://interactives.ap.org/2016/delegate-tracker/
But Bernie wants to overturn the precedent, just for her.
http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1532358
What does it mean to 'clinch the nomination' when superdelegates are involved?
May 29, 2016
The answer: history says the first person to get to the magic number is the presumptive nominee, and says it unambiguously, even if the losers often disagree.
Here’s how it has gone since the superdelegates were added to the process.
Mondale / Hart / Jackson (1984)
Puerto Rico Dems "appalled" by accusations from Sanders camp
Source: The Hill
The head of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico slammed the Sanders campaign on Saturday for accusing it of unfairly denying poll workers access to prisons to help inmates vote.
"I am appalled at the remarks from the spokesperson of the Bernie Sanders Campaign in Puerto Rico, Ms. Betsy Franceschini," local Democratic Party president Roberto Prats said in a statement.
Franceschini had accused party officials in Puerto Rico of witholding certifications from Sanders officials, initially preventing them from organizing voters in prisons.
"The claim that the Democratic Party is delaying the certification of the Sanders' poll workers is preposterous. The first complete set of pollworkers for tomorrow's primary we have certified were all from the Sander's Campaign."
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/dem-primaries/282237-puerto-rico-democratic-party-denies-wrongdoing-in-primary
If the original Bernie campaign accusation is "late breaking news" then so is this story from The Hill reporting the Democratic party response.
The truth is that the prison system, not the Democratic party, handles prisoner voting; and that the Sanders campaign had reps at the polling places.
The party is also accusing the Sanders campaign of "stealing two boxes of ballots that had been cast by prisoners before delivering them to an election office. "
That time Muhammed Ali traveled to Iraq and got 15 hostages released.
I bet most people have forgotten, but a reporter in The Guardian didn't.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027882254
Virgin Island caucus results: 84% for Hillary; 12% for Bernie.
Hillary gets all 7 pledged delegates -- and then the Puerto Rico primary, with 60 pledged delegates, is Sunday.
Hillary, coincidentally, needs only 60 more delegates to reach the majority of all delegates. So she'll be very close when voting in several states starts on Tuesday.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/06/05/clinton-sweeps-us-virgin-islands/85441352/
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton scored a sweeping win in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Saturday, picking up all seven pledged delegates at stake as she inched tantalizingly close to the Democratic nomination.
She is now just 60 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to advance to the November general election.
The party said Clinton won 84.2% of the vote, while Bernie Sanders earned 12.2%. Under Democratic National Committee rules, a candidate must win at least 15% of the vote to be eligible to receive delegates.
It was almost as big a margin as Barack Obama had in 2008 when he beat Clinton by 90% to 8%.
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1990: Muhammad Ali traveled to Iraq and got 15 American hostages released.
He was a hero, and most people have forgotten that.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2016/jun/04/muhammad-ali-dead-age-74-live-updates
ESPN produced a short documentary in its 30-for-30 series on the remarkable episode, during which Ali visited schools, prayed at a Baghdad mosque and met Hussein. “We hope and pray there is not a war,” he told Iraqi officials. “And with the little authority from the fame that I have I’ll show the real side of Iraq.”
The White House of George HW Bush disapproved of the meeting but Ali managed to bring the Americans back to the US. “God works through people,” Ali told a former hostage. “It’s not me.”
A little more than a month later the US invaded in Operation Desert Storm, in what became the first Iraq war.
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And he also helped save another man from suicide:
Predictwise gives Hillary a 97% chance in the primary, and 72% in the general.
predictwise.com
Elizabeth Warren: Trump is only qualified to be "Fraudster-in-Chief."
http://www.wbur.org/2016/06/04/at-mass-dem-convention-warren-keeps-focus-on-trumpCalling Donald Trump a “small, insecure moneygrubber,” U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday unleashed her latest blistering attack against the Republican presidential candidate as hundreds of Bay State Democrats gathered for their convention still divided over who will lead their own party into November.
Warren, who has escalated her attacks on Twitter and in recent speeches against the presumptive GOP nominee, has nevertheless remained on the sidelines in the Democratic contest that will drag on at least through next Tuesday.
Her speech came against the backdrop of a Boston Globe report on Friday that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has been actively exploring scenarios for how Massachusetts, led by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, would replace Warren in the Senate should she be tapped by Clinton as her running mate.
“Here’s a man who builds a business to profit off other peoples’ pain. He wants to be Commander in Chief, but he’s only qualified to be Fraudster-in-Chief,” Warren said to cheers.
Trump has threatened the judge on his case that he might sue him after he's President.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/us/politics/donald-trump-constitution-power.html?ref=politicsDonald Trump Could Threaten U.S. Rule of Law, Scholars Say
And, in what was a tipping point for some, he attacked Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel of the Federal District Court in San Diego, who is overseeing two class actions against Trump University.
Mr. Trump accused the judge of bias, falsely said he was Mexican and seemed to issue a threat.
“They ought to look into Judge Curiel, because what Judge Curiel is doing is a total disgrace,” Mr. Trump said. “O.K.? But we will come back in November. Wouldn’t that be wild if I am president and come back and do a civil case?”
David Post, a retired law professor who now writes for the Volokh Conspiracy, a conservative-leaning law blog, said those comments had crossed a line.
“This is how authoritarianism starts, with a president who does not respect the judiciary,” Mr. Post said. “You can criticize the judicial system, you can criticize individual cases, you can criticize individual judges. But the president has to be clear that the law is the law and that he enforces the law. That is his constitutional obligation.”
Boston Globe: Sen. Reid is now "very open" to Elizabeth Warren being Hillary's V.P.
According to the article, Sen. Reid has been exploring legal ways to retain Liz Warren's Senate seat, if she becomes the Vice President -- even though Massachusetts has a Republican governor.
Sen. Reid has been on record that he wouldn't support for V.P. any Senator from a Repub-led state, because of the loss it would mean to the Senate. But it appears they might have found a legal path in Massachusetts!
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/06/03/harry-reid-studies-legal-scenarios-for-filling-senate-seat-elizabeth-warren-gets-vice-presidential-nod/3FSrNJlAhqRoiWt6iQMK7J/story.html?p1=Article_Trending_Most_Viewed
WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has been actively reviewing Massachusetts rules for filling a US Senate vacancy, another indication of the seriousness with which Democrats are gaming out the possibility of Elizabeth Warren joining likely presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s ticket.
The upshot of Reid’s review is that Senate Democrats may have found an avenue to block or at least narrow GOP Governor Charlie Baker’s ability to name a temporary replacement and prevent the Senate from flipping to a Democratic majority if Warren were to leave the chamber. That suggests the issue is not as significant an obstacle as Reid previously feared.
Pieces of the legal guidance given to Reid were shared with the Globe by a person close to Reid who is familiar with the guidance.
“Reid sees a number of promising paths to making sure that Democrats keep Warren’s seat and is very open to her being selected,” said this person, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
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