from an overall perspective I think far too much emphasis is on Sanders and the Presidential primaries. This is a huge country and no matter who the President is there will be limited amounts of change coming from Washington.
Sanders is inspirational, just as Dean once was and Obama was eight years ago. I felt it on the street and the energy was almost palpable. Eight years ago Obama had us rallying and we got huge turnouts for him. After years of campaigning for many candidates, I saw Obama get the AA community here out like nothing we had ever seen before.
But that was one year. We also had the Tea Party jumping up and down and our Congressional candidate actually had to have secret meetings to avoid their disruption.
But, that was then. Now, nobody down here at ground level gives a damn. Out Congressional primary just had 2-3% turnout, and the Presidential one wasn't much better.
Too many primaries is one mantra, although another argument is that primaries are all we have to get people to work on politics.
But, less than half of our locals are R or D-- the biggest registration group is "blank". I went out collecting signatures, and there were a grand total of 31 Democrats in my ED.
31 Democrats. Out of a total of 131 in the whole damn town. Sanders nor anyone else can do anything about that-- it's up to us on the ground locally to build a solid base.
It's really not about race. Race is always there to cause trouble, but often enough it's just an excuse. We have simply come to realize that the promises of politicians are either flat out pandering lies or promises they simply can't keep no matter how hard they try.
Sanders and Trump share one thing-- they are both the anti-politicians. But the politicians tend to win in the end.
= new reply since forum marked as read