Many people, for a variety of reasons, prefer the United States to remain like it is.
South Carlina just stood up and showed it is filled with people who do not want change.
We saw some examples of that last summer, didn’t we?
I mean, certain essential social changes finally did happen there but man, what a bitter fight it was.
And there is still a bad taste in their mouth. It’s not like those changes have been embraced and celebrated. It’s a backward and kooky state.
I mean, Trump won South Carolina, too. That is rather telling. Trump apparently gives those sorts of people hope. (The sorts that actually want to live in South Carolina as it is at this time. I certainly don’t want to live there.)
Hillary is the “Do not change America” candidate, the candidate that is charged with protecting the status quo. (This is where the threat of running Bloomberg comes in: anything to make sure Bernie’s vision is pre-empted and this country can remain a vicious for-profit venture for the 1%)
Bernie is the “Change America as Much As Possible” candidate: of course he was not a preferred entity in a state that doesn’t want change.
But, hey...relax: South Carolina isn’t the only state like that.
Many states have cultures that prefer to not have progress that many of us see as essential.
It’s true.
Look at how well fascist scumbag Trump is polling and you can see a LOT of America wants to stay mired in hopeless racism, in a shitty economy that caters to the wealthy, and seeks to shorten the lives of the poor.
There is a plan to push Sanders forward despite the naysayers and others who prefer to the Status Quo.
At this stage in the Democratic Party’s nominating process, Sanders and his team are focusing on a longer game: a handful of states where they think they can win and show that Clinton is not the inevitable nominee—despite being dismissed by mainstream pundits known for accurate updated forecasts such as Nate Silver’s FiveThirdEight.com.
But this is a hard road. When Sanders was campaigning in black churches in South Carolina earlier this week, parishioners barely acknowledged him as he walked between their lunch tables. That was the case even though filmmaker Spike Lee made an ad urging the state’s African Americans to support Sanders, and others have tried to convince voters that standing with the Clintons is not in their interest.
Looking at next Tuesday's multi-state voting schedule, Sanders has concentrated his effort outside his home region, Vermont, where, of course, he will win, and in Massachusetts, where the race is very tight. As a Friday fundraising email from the Clinton campaign noted, “The Sanders campaign is outspending us on television by hundreds of thousands of dollars in Minnesota and Oklahoma, and they’re more than doubling our spending in Colorado.”
Bernie is the candidate of actual change. And actual change is what MY America needs.
That he did not do well in a really backward state like South Carolina isn’t much of a big deal to me. It’s a backwards state with backward values and clearly they like things the way they are. DO NOT vote for Bernie if you want things to remain the same.
Sanders will take this to the convention, despite the number of wins Clinton will get through the American South. The South has always hated change so this isn’t remotely surprising.
PLENTY of Americans in not-so-backward places want the changes we know we can have and SHOULD DEMAND.
There’s still plenty of hope that America can have a candidate for real change.
Hillary IS a very competent politician, far, far better than any of the GOP offerings, by leaps and bounds. She is more than sufficiently experienced to be president. There is no question about that.
And it is excellent that the Democrats there DID come out to vote. I do not mean to look down upon this important aspect..
But she is simply WRONG for America’s future.
She represents a reality and paradigm that has savaged Americans economically and which must be jettisoned in order to build a better country that takes better care of people and reins in the abuses of capitalism.
I look forward to my opportunity to vote for this change.
And against the Status Quo.