Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: So I guess we got the meme [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)as the NN guy (Elon James) said, critique there is like complaining about people shouting for help in a fire, telling them they're not 'doing it right'. Handlers or no, I think they did a good job at it anyway - the message got across to enough, and then passed through chains of willing translators to reach as many people as were actually open to receiving it. There are still a lot of folks so wrapped up in 'the elections are everything' that they're unwilling to even consider that it was not an 'attack on' their candidate, but that's as it will be. There comes a time when you're past the point of diminishing returns in terms of time spent to get a message across.
To be sure, I have my own selfish reasons for being delighted that they did what they did. They're shouting out that they won't simply have their votes taken for granted out of a desperate need for basic and direct threats to their survival. But I'm hopeful that they will succeed, because I feel the left has been trying to make it known that the path to change is by making demands in exchange for our votes, not simply to continue to give them away in 'lesser evilhood', that that path just leads ever to greater and greater 'lesser evils'. Their success will be a powerful example of that political truth.
We need to support them as much as possible now, to win this fight, so that we can win other fights that will help more people survive less obvious and immediate threats to their lives down the road. To actually strengthen the safety nets and grow programs that make us all more equal, and equally strong. To finally achieve true equality for every human, to keep the homeless housed, the hungry fed, the sick the care they need.