
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Sanders stays, so his movement can live on by dragging Biden leftward [View all]thucythucy
(8,985 posts)To say that Sanders voters are going with the issues, while Biden voters are going with "electability" is both an oversimplification and a grand example of the kind of arrogance and condescension that the Sanders campaign has been dishing out for months.
This is especially bothersome when you consider that Sanders lost--by enormous margins--the African American vote which is the bedrock core of the Democratic Party.
Could it be that Democratic voters looked at Sanders and saw the same old same old campaign speech from four years ago, saw him choosing Green Party ideologues who helped put the current monster in the White House as his closest staff and advisors, saw him refusing to be an actual Democrat while taking advantage of the Party's infrastructure, saw someone who called for the first African American president to be opposed in the 2012 primaries, saw someone pushing legislation that advanced the interests of gun manufacturers and the NRA (while refusing to deal with gun violence overall, especially in minority communities) and said: pass?
No no, it has to be "electability" versus "issues."
Because only a fool would oppose "the revolution" on the issues.

primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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