Bernie Sanders' Economic Inequality Town Hall Draws 1.7 Million Live Viewers

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109. Yes.

Democrats need to take a better look at what is going on in our economy.

Last night, a guy after a meeting started complaining that he tried to get a job for a government agency, but that although he had worked for the government before and had served in the military, he didn't have enough "points."

Apparently he thinks you get "points" if you belong to a minority, are a woman, etc.. I don't think that "points" had anything to do with the reason he did not get the job.

But it's his belief in this mythical "points" that caused him to vote for Trump.

Bernie is speaking to that myth about "points." He is talking about the economic inequality that makes it easy for people to resent others based on race, gender, etc.

The Democratic Party used to be more outspokenly the Party of working people. We still are when you compare the Democratic Party to the Republican one. Bernie still speaks to the traditional Democratic economic issues of working people. Too few Democrats are speaking clearly to those issues. That's one reason we don't hear about those issues much in the media.

We Democrats need to take a page from Bernie's book and talk more about economic issues that unite and touch all of us.

The Democrats and Independents who were working people who were upset by economic issues voted for Reagan and in 2016 many of them voted for Trump.

We need to ask ourselves why they are not hearing the message they want from Democratic candidates.

As Democrats, we need to look at our Party and ask why we lost so many elections over the years. We are winning elections now because Trump is just so horrible. But will that last? Are we really dealing with the issues that the working people of America care about? Bernie speaks to those, and that is why he draws the crowds.

Dissing him for his successes is just putting our heads in the sand. It is not going to carry our Democratic Party to the successes we had during, say, the FDR era.