2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I just LOVE Bernie Sanders for saying this. It is so unsexist and so unmisogynistic! [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)"One cause for concern, Sanders explained to Schultz, was seeing many white, working-class voters in low-income states like Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina voting against their own best interest.
These are guys getting hung up on gay marriage issues, Sanders told Schultz. Theyre getting hung up on abortion issues. And it is time we started focusing on the economic issues that bring us together: Defending Social Security, defending Medicare, making sure that Medicaid is not cut, that veterans programs are not cut.
Abortion and gay marriage - we're too "hung up" on that at the expense of the needs of the "white working class."
http://www.rawstory.com/2013/10/bernie-sanders-tells-ed-schultz-southern-democrats-are-tired-of-being-abandoned-by-the-party/