Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumPoor Harvard Hillary Supporter
Letter to the Editor, NY Times.
To his credit, he doesn't mention Bernie by name (indirectly, via Shaun King), but:
Re Daring to Back Clinton (Metropolitan section, April 17), about the isolation felt by Columbia students who support Hillary Clinton:
At the age of 12, I canvassed for Senator Barack Obamas 2008 presidential campaign. At the age of 18, I organized several Black Lives Matter protests. And at the age of 20, my peers consider me conservative.
Over this time, my political beliefs have remained unchanged. I still support entitlements, loathe mass incarceration, advocate for L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and believe in the governments power to improve lives and create sweeping change. This ideology makes me a Democrat in the vein of Barack Obama, Jed Bartlet (West Wing) and even Mrs. Clinton. But on my college campus, I might as well be Pat Buchanan.
At Harvard, admitting that #ImWithHer is nearly tantamount to boasting Make America Great Again. If you havent shared a post from the writer and activist Shaun King, you are not a true liberal here.
More at link.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/opinion/an-outlier-at-harvard-im-a-hillary-supporter.html?mabReward=CTM&moduleDetail=recommendations-1&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion®ion=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article
One is the loneliest number.
Cher
merrily
(45,251 posts)"I still support entitlements"
That's a tell.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Democratic politician who used that term for social safety nets, or promised to cut them--at least, not in public.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011504114.html
Clinton did, of course, "end welfare as we know it," but I don't recall if he used the term "entitlement."
CobaltBlue
(1,122 posts)When a Democrat sounds like a Diet Republican
they embrace the language of the Republican Party (as the subject of that article does), it reveals they are DLC/Third Way types.
That article, and from a source I do not trust, is an effort to get 17/1829 voters to go from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders.
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)Oh the horror! How courageous to back the establishment candidate and status quo.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)so why in the Nine Hells are they supporting Clinton? she's FOR all these even if you think that really, really believing hard enough without any cash in hand will make her flip
NJCher
(35,842 posts)It would be interesting to see if other letters appear like this--in the Boston Globe, LA Times, etc. Betcha' some campaign aid was told to find a college students at various campuses and have them write a letter to the editor.
Clue One: college students barely know what a letter to the editor is. They don't read newspapers unless they're forced to in class.
This is my opinion as a college teacher.
They'll Tweet. They'll post on Facebook. But letter to the editor....urm, that had to come from someone older.
Just an FYI, the letter to the editor used to be one of the most read sections of the newspapers, therefore, PR flacks would always include this in their media plan.
Cher