2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A vote for Bernie is NOT anti-black or pro-racism (updated) [View all]noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)In my opinion when the campaign began Sanders was not well known in the South. The Clinton campaign and their surrogates saw this "problem" Sanders had with not being known so they exploited that problem to try to make it worse. We all know what happened. We've posted about it here. The whole thing has been a Clinton campaign tactic to define Sanders before he could define himself and sadly some here have adopted it and have talked of nothing else. It was a successful campaign tactic as dirty tactics often are. The sad thing about it is that these kind of tactics cover everyone in slime. The ones who are pushing the tactics and the ones on the receiving end. The people who choose to use these kind of tactics are not going to stop because they enjoy the response that they get. The only thing the people on the receiving end can do is to ignore them completely.