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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders remains one of Americas most popular politicians [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)It's for the the convenience of white males.
Immediately after the election, out came the song and dance about WWC and the evils of "identity politics". After the election of Donald TRUMP.
We heard the whole "The Democrats have lost the ability to talk to the white working class" - nonsense. The working class is the working class, and so working class people of color became invisible - again. After all the image of the blue collar worker is the white male industrial worker we love to romanticize.
There was also the refusal to admit by some that yes, millions voted for and were with Her - this was an issue during the primaries.
People calling themselves progressive and liberal rejoiced at the thought of an HRC indictment, the indictment of a democratic public servant, and they were indistinguishable from GOP crazies, this despite decades of GOP chicanery and their relentless strategy of swiftboating our candidates. It was insanity, their passions were aroused AGAINST HER, and it's hard for those passions to simmer down to reason, even when Sanders implored them to be smart.
These same types would go on about transparency and corruption but couldn't summon the same anger when Obama's scotus pic was shafted. While they were obsessed with HRC and demonizing the Democratic party, it didn't occur to them to make a contrast between California and Brownbackistan (Kansas) - yet the false equivalency between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party persisted and amazingly, persists to this day. These sort of rhetorical blunders and mischaracterizations hurt the party and affected enthusiasm. But they didn't and don't care, I can only assume because they can afford to not care.
And don't look to some of these people for an opinion on voter suppression and gerrymandering - two issues that disproportionately affected people of color.
Trump put whiteness at the center of his campaign and america lost its mind . Despite the cheers from the core of Trump's supporters for his travel bans and aggressively deporting millions, and detaining innocent people, "deplorable" is still referred to time and time again as a blunder, as if daring to call the ugliness by its name is greater than the sin itself. Who benefits from not calling it what it is?
Whose guilt is assuaged by excusing this all away ?
White men.