[Paracelsus]

(01-09-2016 02:38 AM)kenny_g Wrote:  

I have some perspective about the Seattle scene, I have spent some time there both before and after this campaign fiasco.

I read this thread when it started and I was internally echoing the same feelings that the OP, and most posters, had - this is a career killer, how can America actually want a man like this in office when he can be shouted off a stage, where was the security, someone taser these hags, etc etc. I don't want to denounce what other guys are saying or anything like that but I do think some on-the-ground info is actually relevant here: it seems the opposite of what we think should happen has happened.

To date, I have met exactly zero Seattlites who would say anything negative about the incident.

At best, they will say "I wish the Bern had more time to talk" or some such PC bull.

Instead of seeing this event for what it is, a potential world leader's IRL speech/thread derailed by some race trolls, it seemed to me last time I was there that the entire incident has had the opposite effect on Mr. Sanders' campaign, at least in Seattle.

People are stoked, they say that he is "responding to his constituency." They say that he "took the high road." They say that he isn't afraid to "share the stage" etc etc. These are actual Seattle opinions. I know that Washington isn't exactly a swing state, but this is pretty telling of the current political climate in America - or at least neo-lib "we're all okay" America.

They want deference, they want someone to yield to the angry masses, they want someone to cow-tow, they want black people to give them high fives.

Kind of troubling to me that a potential presidential candidate is getting mass appeal for being unable to convey his campaign platforms effectively in a public setting.

Which is a real buzz kill because for all his personal weakness, Bernie Sanders seems to have a refreshing opinion on corporate America's stranglehold on the country's political climate.

The nutball protester herself called Seattle one of the most progressive cities in America, so this wouldn't surprise me. It's whether he can engender the same reaction in any other city in America. Images are powerful, and that image is one of an old white man cowering down protecting his balls while a couple of insolent fat women scream about their First World Problems. Trump only has to make some sort of image along the lines of "Do you really want this guy standing up to Putin? To Assad? To Mexican drug lords? You think those guys deserve to have the stage unopposed? He can't even control his own rallies, much less command the security of the United States!"