Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (429462)	2/7/2020 7:24:39 PM
From: NAG1	1 Recommendation Recommended By Sam Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540882

koan, How can the progressives be the minority when Bernie and Warren keep getting so many votes? First of all, there has been only 1 state that has voted. Second, in the primaries and especially the caucuses, the most motivated are the ones going out there. With the caucus, it is not just going to place a vote. You have to actually do something else and be there which a lot of people don't have time to do. This plays right into the hands of the people with the most rabid supporters, which, up to now, has been Sanders. Let us see how all this holds up in other states. And Sanders numbers may be padded by Republicans crossing lines to vote for him in order to get the candidate that they perceive will be easier to beat in November. The more the African Americans learn about Bloomberg's stop and frisk and Bidens 1994 crime bill the more they will move to Bernie. The Black kids already like Bernie and Warren. Just looking at the bill through 2020 eyes, it may not look good. But there were epidemics of crime in the inner cities that were gotten under control with the crime bills that got passed. The bills worked but outlasted their usefulness. Now, I am unaware of African Americans being for Sanders and Warren in big numbers. My take has been that they have been for Biden in a big way.

To: koan who wrote (429462)	2/7/2020 7:32:35 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By Sam Respond to of 540882

"How can the progressives be the minority when Bernie and Warren keep getting so many votes?" Combined, they get less than 50%, the traditional dividing line between minority and majority. "If the progressives are in a minority why are they winning in the polls?" There are only 2 of them spitting the vote, versus 3-6 running in the other lane. "The more the African Americans learn about Bloomberg's stop and frisk and Bidens 1994 crime bill the more they will move to Bernie" Bernie voted for the crime bill, and they know about stop/frisk.

To: koan who wrote (429462)	2/8/2020 10:56:13 AM
From: Asymmetric	3 Recommendations Recommended By bentway research1234 stsimon Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 540882

Koan - I think you might want to spend some time mulling over what happened in the Jeremy Corbyn versus Boris Johnson election in our sister nation of England. For me there are many strong parallels that should and absolutely need to be applied to what we think might be the outcome or outcomes in our own elections. My thesis is we are even worse off than the British electorate was, as I believe the Republican corruption of the election process and outcome in the United States will be a major additional factor that would need to be layered on top of what happened in the British elections...and we have the pro-fascist Fox news and right-wing radio that they don't and didn't have. Those factors will ensure Bernie and his followers will have an even tougher go of it here should he be the nominee.