re: #6 goddamnedfrank

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As I tweeted to Sanders in response to that inane tweet, I know exactly where he comes from.

He’s a Jewish kid from Brooklyn. He went to Madison HS (where Schumer, Sanders, and RBG went at different time periods). Brooklyn doesn’t look a lot like it did back then. It’s now predominantly multi-ethnic, with far fewer white people than when he was growing up. In fact, Brooklyn looks a lot more like what the nation will look like demographically as a whole in a few decades than Vermont. In fact, Vermont is among the whitest states in the nation. Homogeneous and lily-white.

Sanders is pushing the same crap he did during the primaries, where his prime concern is white folks, even though it’s persons of color who suffer the most under a Trump presidency. His prime concern isn’t even white women, who’d suffer greatly under a Trump presidency given he’s surrounded himself with people who want to make abortion illegal and criminalize the act of seeking out abortion (or giving one). He’s most concerned with the people who are least affected by a Trump presidency, all while claiming that they’re the ones in greatest economic distress.

Sanders is playing the con - just a different angle from Trump.

Neither is correct on the macro level, even though some pockets of the country are suffering economically, but neither Trump nor Sanders truly has an answer for that - because waving your hand and saying jobs will magically return isn’t a plan. It’s a recipe for disaster and inaction.