Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

2016 Postmortem

sibelian

(7,804 posts)

3. Yeah, which would be the "telling people what you're going to do" part.

Reply to leftofcool (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 23, 2015, 09:07 PM

Aug 2015

It's the language I find bizarre. It sounds like people are expected to think of politicians in roughly the same way they think of soap powder.

And it only ever seems to be minorities that are supposed to be "appealed" to!

Weird. It's like a subconscious twitch implying that minorities are thick. Most minorities in almost any country are considerably more politically aware than the general population.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

20 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

So minority voters have to be "appealed" to then? The candidate must be "appealing"? [View all] sibelian Aug 2015 OP

Scottland has shorter campaigns nadinbrzezinski Aug 2015 #1

Well, we've actually got even worse, now we have armies of people reading policy docs! sibelian Aug 2015 #5

I covered one of the Bernie rallies nadinbrzezinski Aug 2015 #8

This is one of the reasons I think he's such a great idea. sibelian Aug 2015 #13

It's like actual democracy nadinbrzezinski Aug 2015 #16

Oh, it was a HOOT! Everyone was SO freaked out sibelian Aug 2015 #19

"appealing" to a candidate has nothing to do with "cuddling" leftofcool Aug 2015 #2

Yeah, which would be the "telling people what you're going to do" part. sibelian Aug 2015 #3

Minorities in the US are very aware politically. leftofcool Aug 2015 #4

The American political system is labyrinthine and *incredibly* stable. sibelian Aug 2015 #6

I don't know about "stable" I would say "static" leftofcool Aug 2015 #9

Most politicians in the US do everything they can to avoid the issue jfern Aug 2015 #7

I don't see it as cuddling, and no it does not sadoldgirl Aug 2015 #10

Fair enough. It just sounds weird to me. sibelian Aug 2015 #11

Trump hates Scotland? What did ya'll do to poor Donald? leftofcool Aug 2015 #12

He tried to build a big fat golf course sibelian Aug 2015 #14

Or build a wall around your island and make you pay for it. leftofcool Aug 2015 #15

May I add an adjective to your description? sadoldgirl Aug 2015 #17

See! You're just not as nice as I am but he is a cunning and cruel ass leftofcool Aug 2015 #18

We have someone vaguely similar... sibelian Aug 2015 #20