If Bernie thinks the only way to win is to win white working class voters at the expense of

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88. I feel the words "go beyond" are being misinterpreted imo.

because he ALSO said “We need 50 women in the Senate. We need more African-Americans.” And he expressed similar throughout the interview.

Bernie was saying that there are two parts to being public servant/office holder and the Party has got to get out of the $5K suit-wearing, cocktail-circuit DC-bubble and bravely embrace both core principles:

- Economic populism - willingness to stand up for poor and middle classes, going beyond lip-service and openly opposing corporate power grabs, combatting Republican giveaways to the 1%

- Civil populism - bring your identity/uniqueness to continue embracing civil rights boldly, but not just lip-service or promoting it from the streets, but going beyond to taking the key leadership positions.

Good grief, most politicians become millionaires a couple of times over by the time they've been in office for 4 years.
How is that? Why is that?

I don't blame the Dem party but I do I blame the leadership for not preventing that DC-bubble cocktail culture to develop in the first place.

The answers to the millionaire corruption questions are pretty much key to understanding why we're arguing here about this today. Many of the weathiest, most powerful businessmen in the world founded the John Birch society and other racist and anti-labor propaganda thinktanks etc. Bigotry isn't only born with working whites - the propaganda machine that spits out the constant racist memes also comes from the very rich.

newrepublic.com/article/138921/bernie-sanders-meant-say-identity-politics