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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
(147,558 posts)Sanders did not win all of the arguments and his appeal mainly works for a narrow class of voters that does not include key elements of the Democratic base. Look at the Virginia results. The sanders endorsed candidate was rejected by African American voters for a reason. Pretending that these results do not matter is not helping your attempt to remake the Democratic Party into the image of Sanders.
Your analysis of Texas politics is amusing but wrong. I hate to break it to you but Texas politics are driven a great deal by race. The Texas GOP has gerrymandered the state like crazy and the Texas GOP is great at using the politics of racial division to win races. Economic messages are not the answer in the real world. The Texas GOP is relying on voter suppression tools to keep non-whites and poor people from voting. No economic message is going to counter these efforts. I trained 200+ poll watchers last cycle to try to combat the GOP voter suppression efforts. The report of the Texas Civil Rights Project is based on the reports generated by the hot line I worked on http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Confusion-over-voter-ID-laws-hindered-voters-new-11223116.php?platform=hootsuite We had "greeters" at polling locations telling voters to go away if they did not have a correct id. My poll watchers documented this and we got the county to change these greetings by fighting.
Again, please get out into the real world. Campus politics are not a substitute for real world experience. I live in the real world. The TCRP report cited above is what we are dealing with in Texas. No silly economic message is going to change things.
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