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calimary's JournalMoscow Barbie!
Malrovia!
Well they may be allowed to buy tickets to the opening
but they sure as hell will NEVER be invited to play.
And don't forget the insult to injury in 2012
when Bernie decided President Obama needed to be primaried!
OMG! I find that absolutely outrageous, unforgivable, and galling as hell. And Im a old white woman. I can only imagine how upsetting that must be to the African/American community when some cantankerous know-it-all who should know better threatens to primary the first black president.
BIG mistake. And just what we DID NOT need when our first black president was up for re-election, had already brought us the Affordable Care Act, gotten rid of Osama bin Laden, and saved General Motors while starting to pull America out of the economic disaster that bush/cheney left us with. And we were really supposed to consider primarying him?
Seriously???
My late mother had a favorite phrase that kept going through my mind back then - about somebody whos got more nerve than the guy who ate the first oyster.
My guess: Bernie's saying something positive about Fidel Castro
would make Florida a nonstarter for Bernie.
The reality is - if youre doing well with young people, youre NOT necessarily doing well, if they dont show up to VOTE. And the reality is - they dont. Which is a shame.
Who DOES show up to vote? Older people. AND older people of color. Probably because theyve been around long enough to see, understand, and remember. And its the older demographic that gets why bringing up Castro is a BIG mistake. They remember the Cuban missile crisis and the Commie 90 miles off our shores.
Praising Castro is just stupid. Bringing Castro up in the first place was just stupid. Especially for a self-proclaimed socialist! Especially when the very word socialist spooks a huge chunk of the public. Lordy, can you say CLUELESS?!?!? And Florida has such a sizeable Cuban demographic - and they remember Castro and not in any positive sense. Is Bernie that stuck in his ivory tower that he does not realize this? That theres no way you can sell socialist and make people warm to it? Its a labeling thing. One can argue its just a word. Maybe, but its still a fucking LOADED word that evokes some of our most basic fears of totalitarianism that have creeped Amerian ca out for decades. And fears that deep and that visceral take a LONG time to overcome.
It does no good to try to explain about the issues. It does no good to try to explain the fine points of what Bernie says we should be doing and enacting as public policy. Nobody has time for that. As has been said before, if youre explaining, youre losing. Weve had decades to imprint on, and internalize, the very simple and visceral meme Socialism = Bad. And when that impression has had decades to seep all the way into the American bone marrow, its a LOSER. And all the well it SHOULDNT be arguments, even while sensible and justifiable, wont change that. I suspect the demographics who actually show up to vote in Florida will RUN, not walk, to support Biden. I cant help but suspect that Bernies numbers in Florida, if he had any of significance, will head toward the basement.
Campaign Rule Number One: DO NOT hand your opponent free ammo. DO NOT give your opponent ANY opening of ANY size or shape! PERIOD. Bernie, for Petes sake, WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU THINKING???
We are being "led" by a fucking imbecile.
Agreed.
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