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nxylas
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May 14, 2016
More at: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/white-workers-bernie-sanders-clinton-primary-racism/
Burying the white working class
Apologies if this has been posted before:
MSNBCs Alex Seitz-Wald claimed, Many attributed the outcome to West Virginia voters discomfort with Obamas race. The state is one of the whitest in the country. To be fair, its now widely known that Hillary Clinton keeps hot sauce in her purse at all times.
These kinds of statements are the name of the game for todays Democratic elite. The party has established a clear line on the white wage-earning class: theyre all either dying (demographically or literally), irrelevant in an increasingly nonwhite country, or so hopelessly racist they can go off themselves with a Miller High Life-prescription-painkiller cocktail for all they care. As liberal hero and Sanders nemesis Barney Frank put it a couple of weeks ago, the likelihood that fifty-eight-year-old coal miners are going to become the solar engineers of the future is nil.
The problem with this line is not just that its gross and elitist its that its not even true. The working class is bigger than ever, is still really white, and is broadly supportive of a progressive populist agenda.
It just turns out that the Democratic Party outside of Sanders isnt too interested in that agenda. And its even less interested in that specific chunk of the working class that forces liberals to confront head on the naked brutality of the economic system they cherish.
More at: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/white-workers-bernie-sanders-clinton-primary-racism/
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Name: Nick XylasGender: Male
Hometown: Bristol
Home country: England
Current location: Bristol
Member since: Sat May 13, 2006, 06:28 PM
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