Is Bernie Sanders fighting for the Democratic Party?

[JCanete]

133. The solution is not to become bigoted ourselves, or to pander to the socially regressive instincts

of these red states and communities. I disagree that we shouldn't be trying to reach them on grounds that they might understand. We need to lay bare for them the lies they are being fed, and why. The most expedient way to do that is to show them how we are going to fight for their actual interests, against those who don't have their interests at heart...to give them big, but deliverable promises about how we can make their lives better. And in the process, we are eroding their fucked up narrative. We're showing them that no, it's not the immigrants who are making your life harder, no it's not people on welfare(in fact you're on it buddy), it is the rich who keep getting richer by peddling that bigotry and distrust that you are buying into. Why are you working for the people who are screwing you?

But that can't happen without the dangling of riches. Something to wake people up...to stir the imagination. We have the resources in this nation to make people's lives better. We should be doing so. This isn't pandering or offering free stuff. it's offering a better world, and saying come on board and help us make it.

I recognize this post is all in the area of vague platitude. I'm too zonked to be less broad. I don't think its an easy road either. I just think we should give these people a new boogie man already. We need to throw the rich power-brokers to the wolves...not be middling about them. We need to make them the enemy of the working class, white/brown/female/male...etc. We need to stop saying we're going to get to Washington and work with them to do the right thing. We can't work with them, and nobody should trust that kind of language. We need to go full populist on class lines, galvanizing lines across sexuality and color and poor and middle class. etc. I need to sleep, and may try to make this clearer later.