Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

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The AP on Sanders' strategy or lack thereof: https://apnews.com/d84e7134e893f67b2f3751a2a581a9a2?fbclid=IwAR3IwQXK7PCVqSVpx2Th3KqjPFCqLy_pwI9yeRcE7ycfAnSPGFvBq9_OO5U

Featuring political advice from Marianne Williamson.

And apologies if this is posted upthread and I missed it, but Nate Silver is raining on Bernie's parade.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/after-super-tuesday-joe-biden-is-a-clear-favorite-to-win-the-nomination/

I hope the new touchscreen voting machines make it easier for me to do a write-in than when I had to spin a wheel for each letter.

Pretty sure there's been no bernie parades since tuesday

Damn, Michael Harriot is not pulling punches here

https://www.theroot.com/an-open-letter-to-white-liberals-blaming-low-informatio-1842100419

This is sobering, the whole thread:

I've talked to TOO MANY black Southern voters this week (and during my life) I wanna stop and explain the concept of "the establishment" to some people and why a lot of black Southern voters will NEVER vote for Bernie.
— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) March 6, 2020
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, March 6, 2020 11:47 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait for it...

Admittedly, that comes with cynicism.
Here is an example:

1 woman told me that Bernie is too "obsessed" with M4A. She believes he'll sell anything out to get it done. Then she shocked the f*ck out of me by explaining something I had never heard of.

— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) March 6, 2020

She explained that she had read Bernie's M4A plan and didn't like it because it would essentially eliminate private insurance. And, she said, negotiating prescription drugs removed financial incentives for innovating.

Turns out, she was retired from a medical company

— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) March 6, 2020

At least one of the people whose tweets he used is a black man.

Which is the awesome thing about making cases about what twitter proves - half the people are using funny avatars with the name of their favorite Sopranos character as a username.

The AP article quotes Deidre DeJear as a neutral party who just couldn't get the time of day from Sanders... she was Kamala Harris's Iowa campaign chair.

that tweet (I think I know what you are referring to) was to highlight super progressive black youth as also being dismissive. I kind of got tripped up on it too at first.

but I am also really anti-any place using twitter as a source unless that person is fact-checked as existing.

that's my defense

The foundation of democracy is that an individual vote is always morally valid. People can be stupid, but not “wrong.”

The results - the electoral college choosing the less popular candidate, the winner using his seat for disgusting emoluments, Stephen Miller and his ilk running the NSC - can be morally abhorrent. But the individual voters are not wrong. Misinformed, uneducated, disengaged, maybe, but not wrong. The vote is a private choice and sacrosanct; that is the ideal of democracy.

is it time for a new thread?

Certain posters’ inability to comprehend this is most likely due to a blessed distance from political science classes, which I respect and admire, in a way.

we’re not even to 10,000 posts dude

it feels like a major crossroads in the campaign and now we can poll the final 2

u r otm about the vote btw

"You can demean them as human beings but never say they're wrong" is batshit insane.

"Wrong" choices have nothing to do with "moral validity." There's nothing "morally invalid" with risky sex - but herpes follows you for the rest of your life.

rmde but I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you don't understand how voting works, since you don't understand how elections work either

Herpes 2020.

Frankie baby!

this is probably our silliest argument yet (today)

get in here, goons
2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long

good night and good luck

Milo has herpes?