Sanders courts African-American vote in South Carolina

There were 2,800 people in the hall that evening – just a few dozen of them African-American.

Not all of Sanders’ supporters are liberals.

The past week was full of reminders of her advantage here.

Sanders added that South Carolina would create “tens of thousands” of decent-paying jobs.

“This is not communism, this is not five-year plans, collectivized agriculture and nationalized industry”, he says.

“I don’t hold a grudge, but I haven’t forgotten”, Singletary said.

The problem seems to be that the all-white Bernie Sanders movement and the all-black Black Lives Matter group are hopelessly divided.

Meanwhile, Sanders is largely unknown here, especially among African-American voters.

Bernie Sanders is even giving the hybrid crap, and so the real radicals are shutting their events down. What Sanders represents are the millions of Americans that have had enough with the corporate takeover of the country and a fight to end the trickle down economic policies of Ronald Reagan, for we are sick and exhausted of being urinated on by the wealthy. He also said Deez Nuts’ success in the polls shows a general disaffection with the politics-as-usual two-party system.

The crowd cheered often during his 20-minute speech, and laughed at his jokes, though not as fervently as they did during Sen. He’s expected to meet privately with black leaders while in the state.

Now Sanders aspires to participate in at least one more.

Earlier Saturday in Sumter, South Carolina, the Vermont senator called for publicly financed elections.

South Carolina isn’t obvious Sanders territory.

The senator from Vermont drew crowds ten times as big during appearances in major West Coast markets. Private prisons are, in many respects, the biggest example of what’s wrong with America’s system of government that practically no one knows much about, and highlighting them is the first step toward eradicating them. Sanders will introduce the bill when the Senate returns to session in September.

At Sanders headquarters, tucked away in a dowdy shopping centre on the edge of Des Moines, his Iowa campaign co-ordinator, Pete D’Alessandro, hails his boss as a “collective” populist looking to unite the oppressed, in contrast with those (the name Trump hovers, unspoken) who tell the poor to blame rival groups for their plight. Fox News also had relatively frequent references to Sanders, 53 percent as many as its Trump references.

Sanders has a long road ahead of him if he wants to convince those of us who came of age through the 1980s that his brand of socialism is any different than that preached by the people who were trying to nuke us. “We disagree, [but] if I have anything to say about it, we’re going to have a respectful, intelligent debate about it”. “I believe [Sanders] really cares”.

Neither one of these definitions is what Sanders is talking about. I think weve got about 30% of the country that agrees with the principles of God and Constitution.