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Bernie Sanders’s Message Resonates with a Certain Age Group: His Own
- dalke 11y agoFew in media have no idea what to do with an actual liberal. It's easy to see that he knows his history, and interpret that observation as a negative. I completely agree with his social democratic views. This is easily accused as being "socialist" and somehow un-American. But the only reason this is the case is because of decades of anti-liberal propaganda. The easiest way to see that is to look in history and see when the top marginal tax rate was 90%. Which is what Sanders does. This is even more effective when conservatives - who definitely draw from a similar age group if Fox's demographics are any indication - harken back to the 1950s as some sort of golden era. If instead you want to turn his positive into a negative, you take out the reason why he uses that strategy and just focus on the old part of the message. His message resonates with me. I am not in his age group. You'll note too that the article didn't say if the message also resonates with Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y/Millennials, or any other age group. (He was born in 1941, so he's not a Baby Boomer.) But by only focusing on the people his age or older, it come across as not resonating with a younger age group. (In first order predicate logic, this would be an obviously false inference. But I suspect most people will use an argument from silence, despite the difficulties of that argument.)
- cryofan 11y agothere goes the corporate media, trying to limit a true Leftist...Sanders really scares them, so they are trying to put him in a box