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In reply to the discussion: Democrats have nothing to gain be telling Bernie and his supporters to go to hell [View all]Gothmog
(152,212 posts)The fact that a college student thinks that he knows the real world and understands how the political process works is amusing. Your claims are not backed up the facts. Look at Virginia and other contests. Your positions are not accepted by significant portions of the base and many key groups in the base do not want to see the party remade into the image of sanders or to adopt policies that mainly appeal to while male voters.
Do you really want to compare work in the real world? I am a precinct chair and have been a major donor to numerous campaigns which helped me win a slot at the Philadelphia national convention. I have run voter protection operations both in my county, neighboring counties and the statewide hot line. This cycle I had to deal with the attorneys at the Texas Sec. of State including dealing with reports of armed guards being stationed in front of a Hispanic voting site in Bexar county due to fears of Al Qaeda (the e-mail from the Texas Sec. of State using the al Qada excuse has been circulated among a decent percentage of the election law bar). I trained 200+ poll watchers and helped turn a major county blue by fighting voter suppression efforts and efforts to undermine the court ruling in the Texas voter id case. Heck, I got a Trump supporter arrested for trying to vote twice (the local election judge had me read the relevant statute to the deputy at the polling location where that idiot was trying to vote a second time). The real world is a fun place and there is a great deal of work to be done in the real world
My youngest daughter is also in college and I know that she understands how the political world works. She has been an election judge a dozen or so times and has been to the state convention a couple of times and to the national convention as my guest. She had the fun time of being called some nasty names by Sanders delegates for not convincing me to change my vote. My other daughter was the chaperon for a group of students to the 2008 convention and was in Mile High Stadium for Obama's acceptance speech. As a high school student my son was elected governor of the state of Texas for a national political organization.
My older two children will be in Seattle next weekend to see friends and to attend some Astro games. They also live in the real world and have been very active in politics and so I doubt that you will have anything in common. Several years ago. my son attended a summer school program on politics with Jon Ossoff and is a major contributor to that campaign.
Your posts speak for themselves and it is my opinion that your lack of real world experience causes me to be very skeptical about your proposals. Even if I actually believed your claims about real world experience, I strongly disagree with your positions as did the voters in Virginia. You are entitled to advocate your views and I am entitled to evaluate and reject your positions.
Again, be active in politics. You can make proposals but do not expect people to accept these proposals simply because you make some posts on an internet site. I think that your proposals are not viable and will not work in the real world. Go out out into the real world and prove me wrong. Again, the real world is a fun place.