This doesn't even fundamentally make sense.
An ideologue candidate can seek election using a pragmatic strategy. There's literally nothing mutually exclusive about those elements.
It makes perfect sense.
Why would race be the one topic, when it comes time to be pragmatic? When you don't care about pragmatism and how stuff will poll or turn out when it comes to stuff like single-payer healthcare which will necessitate raising taxes even if it saves people money over all, even when it saves them money people still HATE, HATE, HATE to hear about their taxes going up, there's nothing pragmatic about that, there's nothing pragmatic about his stances about money-in-politics, which, while principled, are also shooting himself in the foot and also making it harder to win, and on so many other topics, him not caring whether it helps him or hurts or anything of the sort, but just doing what he personally believes is right regardless...
When he does that time and time again, when that's what Sanders is fundamentally about, not caring about his chances and doing what is right regardless...
Why is race/"identity" politics the one subject where this isn't the case and it's suddenly time to be pragmatic?
Because again, just talking about pragmatic election strategy, there's certainly nothing pragmatic about Sanders' absolutist stance when it comes to "dark money" in politics, that's not going to help him win, but he does that anyway.
That single-payer definitely aint' going to help Sanders win. Because even if it will save them money, people hate their taxes going up even more than saving money. That ain't going to help him. He does it anyway.
Etc.
So the one time, the one time "PRAGMATISM" to get brought up when it comes to Sanders, that when pragmatism gets brought up when it comes to him, and it almost always, always, always, being about issues of race/"identity politics" of all things...
Yeah, especially as a minority myself, that's going to make me raise some eyebrows, that that's when Sanders supporters tend to only begin to suddenly care about pragmatism, to dismiss the concerns of minorities and act like they don't know what they're talking about, and naturally being really, really more than a little annoyed that that's a recurring thing, that Sanders supporters flaunt how principled he is, and bemoan other candidates for not being as principled as him, and not having any problem with that in of itself, but to suddenly turn around and act like you give a single fuck about being pragmatic in topics like these of all topics, to just dismiss our concerns whereas in the next healthcare topic or whatever complainin' about how candidates can't get on Sanders page or whatever? Yeah, no. Either you care about it, or you don't.
And Sanders supporters typically don't. Which is fine. In of itself.
But don't suddenly act like you care later. Particularly when it's to dismiss concerns minorities such as myself have in topics like this. That ain't cool, at all. That's all I'm saying.
