2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThrowing money is such a dead give away of privelege.
White, wealthy privilege.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)vimeo.com/163178551
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Autumn
(45,107 posts)There's your fucking White, wealthy privilege.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)Hillary obviously loved it:
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)What has Bernie done to help down ballot dems?
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)Now here is an "awful legacy"...
http://www.britannica.com/topic/1994-midterm-Elections-616578
Bernie is helping down ticket Dems by not being a person that many on this country will crawl over broken glass if necessary to vote against.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)not for her, but the protest and the moral thing.
senz
(11,945 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Millions, I tell you.
On the other hand, that protest at the Clooney fundraiser taught them all about how to get media for almost free. Brilliant PR!
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)Struck me the same way.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Might it be enormous privilege, of the enormously white and enormously wealthy? Against which throwing singles would be insignificant?
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)More than a feeling began playing on my radio. I'm going out to throw more money away! LOL
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Disdain for $1 donations? Hubris? An indication that she's no longer "dead broke?"
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Was it just left there?
jmg257
(11,996 posts)its exciting to be, in effect, protesting
Hillary Clinton Apr 6, 2016
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)those who are supposedly struggling to make ends meet, decide that symbolism is more important than feeding the family? Of course not, these were not those struggling that are flinging money to the wind.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)$$ $$
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)$1000 would buy a lot of families a lot of meals. I think that symbolism of feeding the hungry may have been a little more well received.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)The establishment exists to preserve white privilege.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)But your idea works well too!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)Most of us can throw a couple of dollars at her on her way to the $$$ fundraising dinners. Get enough of us lined up, and there will quite a few dollar bills flying around that big SUV caravan.
It makes a statement. A necessary statement.
So ... get on with your defense of the 1%.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)You're either in the suites, or the streets.
It's not possible to represent the rich and the poor at the same time.