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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Derangement Syndrome. [View all]Locrian
(4,523 posts)40. Absolute insanity indeed
A lot of people are still beholden to mainstreet as providers of the "truth" and cannot escape that group-think.
Change is all around and it's just not "comfortable" to realize it.
Sanders is popular because MILLIONS of people realize that and need some hope and someone to back them instead of the status quo and the mainstream corporate/wallstreet.
And even this "change" is a small thing: Climate change is HERE. Hyper inequality and authoritarianism is HERE. We're at the gates and most people just want to go back to the "good old times". Thing is ... it's just not going to happen.
We are in for one hell of a ride, and it's just getting started.
https://medium.com/deep-code/understanding-the-blue-church-e4781b2bd9b5
The Blue Church is panicking because theyve just witnessed the birth of a new Red Religion. Not the tired old Christian cliches they defeated back in the 60s, but a new faith based on cultural identity and outright rejection of the Blue Faith. /u/notjfao
A number of folks noted that they were not familiar with the concept of the Blue Church and wondered what was meant by it. The Democratic Party? Liberalism? Progressivism? As I mentioned in SA:2017, I had originally lifted the idea wholesale from that Reddit post with only an intuitive sense that it (and its juxtaposition with a Red Religion) was useful and pointed at something real.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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