My swan song, come get your grave dancing on, if that's your thing.

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341. I don't think you have a clear sense of the party's history

or your nation's history. The presidents most celebrated by progressives, FDR and JFK, led the expansion of American empire and were both far wealthier than Clinton. FDR also presided over Jim Crow and implemented the New Deal in ways the left people of color out in the cold. 25% of his campaign was funded by Wall Street. JFK slashed taxes on the wealthy, attempted a failed coup in Cuba, and was a rabid Cold Warrior more generally.

I can't begin to understand why you think the GMO issue rests on the presidency. People are organizing around that across party lines, and Sanders defeat does nothing to deter that effort.

As for why people of color support Hillary, she has worked to cultivate personal relationships in communities of color throughout this nation over a period of years. She knew that she had to make up for past mistakes, and the reason why criminal justice reform was her first policy proposal was because she learned, through conversations with community leaders, how important it was.

Sanders never cultivated relationships. He depended on people being drawn to his speeches. I have heard some African Americans say they are long accustomed to white folks coming in at election time and making lots of promises, and it doesn't impress them. Clinton has been there when the cameras aren't running, developed relationships over decades. That sort of thing matters.