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Few 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 comple
by dalke 11y ago
Few 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.)