Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis...
by tptacek on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:38PM
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I may have gotten myself in trouble here implying that Sanders is unpopular; he's not. He's just not viable. You can't win the Democratic nomination without the Black vote, and, for whatever reason, Sanders just wasn't able to connect there. It's academic now, of course; Sanders isn't going to run again.
I'm not a Warren fan either. I'm the weirdo in this conversation who was actually rooting for Biden.
Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis...
by selimthegrim on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:04PM
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See my comment above.
Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis...
by selimthegrim on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:01PM
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Sanders fell apart among black voters in the south for a very good reason — he talked down to them as if he was the first person to think that talking to them about Socialism was a good idea, as if Paul Robeson or Bayard Rustin never existed. One of my (white) college classmates who was very heavily involved as a campaign worker for him told me, “Who are those people?” I said “Don’t look at me, it’s your campaign.”
That being said he was probably the only person who could’ve stopped the union workers in Ohio from flipping to Trump.
What isn't popular among voters, by contrast, is the woke managerialism lane Warren has come to represent. That's significant both because it points to how the party should recalibrate its message, and also because of its implications for the party's management structure (where the woke managerialists have outsize power). I suspect Democrats' reshuffling of the primaries will significantly ameliorate both problems.