More about race and Bernie

[Rebkeh]

Read this: the comments at the kos site are informative as well.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511398425

And my cross post in gd-p has a comment worth reflecting on.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511397357

So, honest question.

Who aligns with whom?

[Bernin4U]

1. The "Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire" mentality

I'd like to think it applies far more to the right than the left. (Of course, what constistutes as "left" these days is certainly at some issue.) It certainly should not be considered a progressive trait.

Bit of a tangent, something I'd found quite interesting to consider was that the French and Russian revolutions, for example, were not started by the respective upper or lower classes, but by suddenly shrinking middle classes. Probably the same for the American revolution; the increasing burden placed on the colonists by England would have been felt most by our middle class.

So today, we have the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" who see that the problem is obviously the $4/hr pickers in the fields. So they're voting for Trump.

And we have progressives who aren't cool with the actual millionaires, because we consider their ability to game the system entirely un-American. Whom to support is a no-brainer.

How do POC fit in to this? I can't say too much, just that economic and cultural are separate (but very closely related) issues. Bernie certainly talks the economic issues. But does he not try enough to connect culturally?

Personally I'm glad he's not out there pandering, at least. If HRH could shoot a basketball like he does, I can only imagine we'd be seeing vids of her and Stephen Curry out playing horse by now. At least he won't try something so lame. But even when she does it, it never seems to harm her. (We're all so used to her lameness by now, that none of it sticks.)

[Rebkeh]

2. Excellent question

This is how the dots connect:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511397357

See more here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1280&pid=132821