2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If Bernie thinks the only way to win is to win white working class voters at the expense of [View all]JCanete
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That is all a whole lot of hogwash. Have you listened to his policies or do you just make them up in your head? I would pit his platform across the spectrum of progressive issues against Hillary's any day. And you know what, while he was demanding that we have a higher minimum wage, which would have been huge for minorities and immigrants, and that we end this prison state, and that we start rebuilding our infrastructure, he was pulling white voters.
Yes you can please all those groups at the same time. What you're missing is the root of bigotry, which is very much about resource scarcity or the sense of it. Fix that and everything else together. Show these scared white people that we aren't after them and that they are looking in the wrong direction for redress, and we can all actually fight together against this effing corporatocracy, AND start to get through to them at the same time that people of color and muslims aren't their enemy.