Sanders Takes Oligarchy Fight to Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in West Virginia
Sanders Takes Oligarchy Fight to Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in West Virginia
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West Virginia is hard on MAGA. Either this is every Dem in the state or MAGA is finally waking up.
I lived in MAGA country near WV in 2016. Folks there knew I wasn’t a red hat but when they found out I was a Bernie Bro they told me how they respected him for his consistency in hating the wealthy.
They hate billionaires, too. Hell, I almost got a bunch of rednecks to agree with socialism just by avoiding scary words.
They want the same things, they just haven’t been presented with it. I am convinced that if Bernie was the nominee he’d have carried West Virginia.
I tell this to everyone at every opportunity:
If Bernie was the DNC nominee in 2016 he would have beat Trump according to literally every single general poll:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2016/trump-vs-sanders
He had a ten point+ lead against Trump compared to Hillary. Hillary just polled better in the DNC primary. Funny then how the DNC made their constituents care more about who could win their primaries than who could win the actual presidential election.
That heavily favored Bernie winning against anyone.
The Bernie-Trump pipeline is a thing. MAGA is fueled by social and economic uncertainty, and unlike the Dem establishment Bernie actually offers solutions to those things. The problem is that solutions from the left are incessantly shut down by the establishment (with little resistance from progressive leaders) while "solutions" from the right are embraced by it (and when they aren't, the right actually fights to change that), so undereducated people in red states see two realistic choices, one that has solutions for their troubles and one that doesn't. My point being that plenty of Republican voters only vote red because the blue side offers them exactly nothing, not because they want an all-white ethnostate. Theoretically that group has no reason to hate Bernie.
One that claims to have a solution. They're still dumb for not realising Republicans don't give a shit about their troubles and their supposed solutions would only make things worse.
If this doesn't do it what will?
I expect that Fox News isn't going to be talking about that, so probably one factor is going to be to what degree that fact actually reaches voters.
Why would Democrats do this to WV?!
Anything to downplay people being excited about progressives.
Unfortunately it's kinda hard to get too excited at this point for a lot of us.
Live in a state where the state overwhelmingly votes for things like keeping abortion legal, requiring paid sick leave, removal of gerrymandering, or even getting rid of fucking puppy mills, but then also overwhelmingly votes for the party who keeps overturning the bills passed by voters over and over and over again and you stop believing that people will actually wake the fuck up and instead continue to vote for that big R next to the name like idiots.