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Stephen Colbert: Dumping DACA Won't MAGA

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Citizen K9/07/2017 7:00:30 am PDT

re: #68 HappyWarrior

Probably the most damning passage of the first article about the Clinton excerpts:

Sanders did not lack the “time or infrastructure” to develop a compelling message for the South. He certainly could have utilized all the time he used to explaining why Clinton winning the black vote in the South didn’t mean anything (because you know, the South doesn’t vote Democratic in the general, so why worry about the black folk there…) to instead “develop a compelling message.” Sanders didn’t develop a message for the South - or for the midwest and the west with heavy Latino populations - because he never cared to. Trying to address racial inequities was a distraction from his economic message primarily focused to address white pain, and he wasn’t going to bother.

I very much agree with this. I don’t think Sanders is a bigot on the level of Trump or most wingnuts but I do think he has an indifference to racism and racial inequalities that Clinton to her credit did not.

The paeans he and followers made to “White Working Class” in the aftermath of the election was illuminating on this scale. Again, the erasure, and insistence that somehow racism and social justice issues would magically repair themselves if economics were solved.