Hillary Clinton's biggest problem, explained in one Bernie Sanders endorsement

[loyalsister]

This is the main reservation I feel and hear from people who are poor. Hillary may care, but it doesn't come across. Particularly in contrast to Bernie's insistance that economic injustice should be addressed ASAP.

All of which is to say that a deep concern for the living conditions of children is probably the best reason to support Clinton. But that concern isn't leading Flores to support Clinton. It's leading her to support Bernie Sanders. And the reason it's leading her to support Sanders speaks to Clinton's biggest political problems.

But I was struck more by the sentences that come right before Flores's endorsement of Sanders's political revolution. She writes:

I believe that Bernie Sanders wakes up every day with these things on his mind. That the unfairness of it all weighs on his heart, just like it does mine, and that when he is elected, he will do whatever it takes to make America the land of opportunity again.

Sanders's fundamental advantage over Clinton is that as voters get to know him better, they come to believe he cares about people like them in a way Clinton doesn't. Whether that's true or not is, politically, beside the point — it's a huge and growing problem for Clinton that Democrats like Flores think it's true.

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/20/10800712/hillary-clintons-bernie-sanders-lisa-flores

[EdwardBernays]

1. Wait wait wait

Are you saying that actually giving a shit vs cynically manipulating people for personal gain is now a viable political platform?

#whatever