Hi, I live in rural America and have worked in low-paying jobs my entire adult life. WWC people around here fucking hate socialism and anything approaching it. They also tend to be racist as fuck, just a little more sly about it whenever I'm in earshot.
So these people felt abandoned by democrats who were trying to help them and instead flocked to trump who just blamed NON-WHITES for all their problems.
www.thenation.com
Sanders Surged in Iowa on a Wave of New Voters
Sanders closed the gap with votes from college campuses, mosques, and union halls, where newly organized and energized voters had his back.
Cool anecdote, I didn't say the racists didn't exist.
Sanders Surged in Iowa on a Wave of New Voters
Sanders closed the gap with votes from college campuses, mosques, and union halls, where newly organized and energized voters had his back.
Cool anecdote, I didn't say the racists didn't exist.
When those people say "they've been abandoned by the Democratic party for far too long", what they mean is "The democrats abandoned us when they backed Civil rights". Period.
They were abandoned by Democrats because Democrats abandoned their support of Jim Crow.
Your own article posits that Sanders's success in Iowa is attributed to immigrants and college students who might not even had the opportunity to vote before. I turned off my ad-block for that.Sanders Surged in Iowa on a Wave of New Voters
Sanders closed the gap with votes from college campuses, mosques, and union halls, where newly organized and energized voters had his back.
Cool anecdote, I didn't say the racists didn't exist.
Step One: Reject donations from billionaires and campaign against their very existence for 6 straight years
Big wave right there.
They didn't say they're voting for a Republican. They said they're not going to support a party that they feel pretends to care about them without actually doing anything meaningful. Don't see an issue with that. Democrats are not obligated to get votes just because they're not Republicans.
I look down on anyone who goes "The guy who is putting kids in cages, instituting muslim bans, etc. isn't worth voting against", yes. For good reason.
In what ways have you felt abandoned? The only Democrat President we've had since 2001 was Obama and the ACA made things better for you, if it had any effect at all, I assume? And pretty much all Dems have platforms emphasizing healthcare and social safety nets, even the most moderate like Biden. I really don't understand
Bingo. This is always brushed aside. There's a reason people refer to the WWC and not just the WC, because it quite literally is only the case with white voters in that group
And those people generally do vote Dem, and if they're in rural areas and/or red states that are GOP dominated, they have less incentive to vote because of the lack of a Presidential Popular Vote.
Not if you live in a state where the governor refused to expand Medicaid.
But those are Democratic governors, which again brings up my question of why does that poster feel like the Democratic Party abandoned them? Not to mention Dems are the only ones who seem to care about election security and combating disenfranchisement and voter intimidation, which only further deafens the voices of people in Red states.
If you go looking at Trump and go "oh thats fine to give half a vote to", I don't need to hear an explanation. Not in 2020 after it's clear what the consequences will be. Deliberate inaction in the face of horror and terror says it all.
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I agree we should not attack rural people, but Bernie did pretty bad in rural Iowa he got most of the delegate from the cities and University towns.
I'll never understand this blind hatred for a guy who simply wants to help people. Absolutely bizarre
Biden being a weak ass frontrunner really hurt us.
The problem with this is that you get perpetually stuck in an alternating cycle when you play within the constraints of the rules and the current system. Ultimately, the increasing concentration of wealth - and the general unwillingness of the two parties to address this, albeit the Democrats are admittedly better at this - is what's contributing to people either tuning out of politics for good or just wanting to tear down the system. That anger can be misdirected, as we saw in 2016, but it can also be used for good when harnessed by someone like Bernie or Warren.
But the alternative is letting those who are RUNNING on making it worse win
Updated:
IDP Caucus 2020
results.thecaucuses.org
Buttigieg's SDE lead actually slightly increased from 1.5 to 2.8.
