lol
What liberals will blame if Hillary loses:
1. Bernie
2. Jill
3. millenials
4. "privileged" upper/middle-class leftists
5. "hicks"/the "uneducated"
What they won't blame:
1. A shitty, problematic, unspiring candidate who focuses on fundraising in the Hamptons and courting neocon Republicans.
(2. Also, their own contempt for working-class people and their shitty treatment of a huge swath of their own base.)
Also, the last paragraph of this excerpt from a Ralph Nader interview from earlier today is absolute FIRE:
AMY GOODMAN: People refer back to your presidential candidacy in the midst of the Al Gore-George W. Bush race back in 2000-
RALPH NADER: Sure.
AMY GOODMAN: -talk about you as the spoiler. You have always said this is absolutely wrong. Why?
RALPH NADER: Well, it’s wrong from a First Amendment point of view, first of all. You should never tell anybody to shut up. And when you run for office, it’s free speech, petition and assembly. It’s the consummate use of the First Amendment. But here-it’s a scapegoating. The Democrats could never get over how they couldn’t beat this bumbling governor from Texas, who couldn’t put a paragraph together and has a horrible record-children and women and pollution, etc., policy, right?
AMY GOODMAN: You’re talking about George W. Bush.
RALPH NADER: George W. Bush. So they scapegoat the Greens. So here’s how it goes: 300,000 registered Democrats in 2000 in Florida voted for Bush-blame the Greens. Thousands of people were misidentified as ex-felons by Katherine Harris, the secretary of state for Jeb Bush, governor of Florida-blame the Greens. The butterfly ballot, which was very deceptive and got people to vote for exactly the opposite candidate in South Florida-blame the Greens. Scalia’s political 5-4 decision, which blocked the Florida Supreme Court’s full recount in Florida-blame the Greens. The Electoral College took the victory in the popular vote from Gore-blame the Greens. Gore loses his Tennessee state, where he represented in Congress for years-blame the Greens. It’s total scapegoating. It’s disgusting that extremely smart people, who happen to be Democratic Party apparatchiks, like Howard Dean, who’s now in a corporate firm that lobbies for the healthcare and drug industry, by the way, and never identified as such by The New York Times and others who quote him-he is now reviving this 2000 nonsense.
1. Bernie
2. Jill
3. millenials
4. "privileged" upper/middle-class leftists
5. "hicks"/the "uneducated"
What they won't blame:
1. A shitty, problematic, unspiring candidate who focuses on fundraising in the Hamptons and courting neocon Republicans.
(2. Also, their own contempt for working-class people and their shitty treatment of a huge swath of their own base.)
Also, the last paragraph of this excerpt from a Ralph Nader interview from earlier today is absolute FIRE:
AMY GOODMAN: People refer back to your presidential candidacy in the midst of the Al Gore-George W. Bush race back in 2000-
RALPH NADER: Sure.
AMY GOODMAN: -talk about you as the spoiler. You have always said this is absolutely wrong. Why?
RALPH NADER: Well, it’s wrong from a First Amendment point of view, first of all. You should never tell anybody to shut up. And when you run for office, it’s free speech, petition and assembly. It’s the consummate use of the First Amendment. But here-it’s a scapegoating. The Democrats could never get over how they couldn’t beat this bumbling governor from Texas, who couldn’t put a paragraph together and has a horrible record-children and women and pollution, etc., policy, right?
AMY GOODMAN: You’re talking about George W. Bush.
RALPH NADER: George W. Bush. So they scapegoat the Greens. So here’s how it goes: 300,000 registered Democrats in 2000 in Florida voted for Bush-blame the Greens. Thousands of people were misidentified as ex-felons by Katherine Harris, the secretary of state for Jeb Bush, governor of Florida-blame the Greens. The butterfly ballot, which was very deceptive and got people to vote for exactly the opposite candidate in South Florida-blame the Greens. Scalia’s political 5-4 decision, which blocked the Florida Supreme Court’s full recount in Florida-blame the Greens. The Electoral College took the victory in the popular vote from Gore-blame the Greens. Gore loses his Tennessee state, where he represented in Congress for years-blame the Greens. It’s total scapegoating. It’s disgusting that extremely smart people, who happen to be Democratic Party apparatchiks, like Howard Dean, who’s now in a corporate firm that lobbies for the healthcare and drug industry, by the way, and never identified as such by The New York Times and others who quote him-he is now reviving this 2000 nonsense.