First off, I do not care about either parties. I care about myself and my country. If either of the two parties come up with policies that will benefit us both, I am more than glad to support them. Regarding Mr. Ellison, although his ideas and principles are important and needed when debating vast arrays of policies/ideologies within the Democratic party, it can't be the ones that should be the face of the party. Trump was easily able to persuade the bread and butter of the democratic party, the working class blue-collar voters. With someone like Mr. Ellison as the frontman, democratic party will be left only with "tree huggers".

mindurbusiness · Nov 10, 2016 9:21 PM

Industrial Midwest states of Indiana and Michigan where Sanders won in primaries, similarly Iowa, Missouri and Illinois where Sanders came very close to winning, are possibly the furthest thing from being a "tree-hugging" country to be frank. No doubt there are tons of "tree hugger" liberals who support him from all over the place but his chief /overarching message was economic populism encompassing trade, Wall Street, unions, social security etc that directly relate to jobs, economic and financial security of everyday people. Ironically, Sanders lost the state by a fairly large margin (7 points) most widely and closely associated with "tree huggers" where, aside from being pioneer of the modern "tree huggers" social movement, it does have (possibly) the most extensive and the most stringent environment protection laws in the country. That is California. Sanders never appeared on ads to promote environment protection with an actual "tree hugger" from "tree-hugging" country but guess who did ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Last edited: 11-Nov-16 06:05 PM

Burga-Flippa · Nov 11, 2016 6:04 PM