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In reply to the discussion: But Bernie is Not a Democrat... [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)Bernie just doesn't count them because they have the wrong skin color. Overwhelmingly, people in lower income brackets vote Democratic. The problem for Bernie is that they are minorities, and they live in the wrong states - he disdainfully called them part of the Confederacy during the primary (never mind that most of them would have been slaves back then, not treasonous members of the Confederacy.)
The Democratic party doesn't represent the 1%. Bernie is lying when he says that. 94% of black women voted for Hillary. You don't get more working class support than that, even though many of those 94% aren't working class...right now. Black women know how the American society is designed to make sure that any progress they make is so precarious it doesn't last through generations, so they vote Democratic, because they know who fights for them. They know who fights for the working class, to make sure the working class has a chance to become middle class. Bernie doesn't acknowledge that, because the working class the Democratic party fights the hardest for doesn't look like him.