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| ParanoidObsessive 08/22/17 12:05:48 PM #34: | Unbridled9 posted... Had Bernie, a democrat who ultimately did not get party support, gotten the nomination over the 'clearly-in-bed-with-corruption' Hilary a lot of wind could have been removed from Trump's sails. But a lot of people would have gone the other way as well, because there were certainly female voters for Hillary who would have been pissed that yet another old white man got the nod instead of a woman (ie, exactly the same sort of sexism outrage you heard after the election, with people overdramatically saying things like "What am I going to tell my daughter now?"), and because cries of "Socialist!" are still a pretty powerful thing in the US. It absolutely wouldn't have been a case of him being able to unite the entire party behind him (unless he did something like make Hillary VP, but that might have been worse in some ways, and he doesn't seem like the type of person who would have agreed to it anyway) and preventing the dissension that hurt the Democrats during the election. There still would have been a divide, and it would have been extremely difficult for him to win against a strongly rhetoric-driven campaign. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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