2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A word of advice about controlling the Democratic Party message [View all]Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)We ARE the "civil rights concerned" Democrats. We are the coalition of the oppressed nourished by Doctor King. In fact, judging by your description, we are you.
That total hogwash you people pulled out about how Sanders supporters "weren't concerned about civil rights" doesn't play any more. A majority of Sanders supporters, those >$50K voters YOU attacked during the primary and again here VOTED FOR HILLARY. They voted FOR the candidate who (at least while she was in the primary) acted like she cared about civil rights. You even admit it in your post (title and first paragraph) and STILL you keep spreading the same LIE you pushed in the primary.
I worked on the ground for Hillary during the general election even after campaigning for Bernie during the primaries. I went from one urban community to another in the South telling folks that she still cared about their problems, that she was the same person who actually spoke to them and about them in the primaries. Do you have even the slightest idea why I had to work so hard to get that message across? Do you even care why so many black folks did not come out? So, the next time you think about calling Trump voters my heroes, you might try THINKING AT ALL.
The ONLY thing I pointed out was that the racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic POS group that voted for AS A MAJORITY for Trump wasn't the working people struggling to get by that you vilified (and a majority of whom STILL voted for Hillary), it was the smug white suburbanites who aren't hurting at all . . . the very same suburbanites that the party has been pandering to for a quarter of a century.
Build your straw man somewhere else.