2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm proud of Sanders for NOT jettisoning Dr. Cornel West [View all]shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Always a treacherous path when one speaks truth to power. One thing that the TV machine and its pablum spewing morons can't seem to fathom in this primary season - America likes fighters. Never mind sensibility and reason, or promising the moon, a lot of it boils down to rooting for a fighter. That's why Herr Trumpf on the right is so popular - he's a political pugilist scrapping and eye-gouging and fighting in the gutter, but he's fighting. Yeah there's a whole lot of bloviating and bragging and out and out lying, but through it all, Trumpf comes across as a fighter.
Same thing for Bernie only on a much more adult, serious, and honest level. He's fighting for the people who haven't had a champion, or felt like they haven't, for some time. It feels good to see someone go to bat. To speak truth to power and to fight the good fight is also something Dr. West has been doing for decades! He's a compassionate fighter.
Hillary to a certain extent is a fighter. Christie is a fighter. The others pretending to run for President come across as fear-mongering, whining wimps. The Repukes can easily bully the current administration, or Hillary or even Bernie but put them on a stage with a fighter and they cry and cringe. Americans love to see someone fighting for their side and for the first place ribbon.