Just a word or two about Bernie and civil rights/social justice

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31. I think he knows that the harder fight is economic justice

Getting people to recognize that Native Americans were people, deserving full protection under the law, and were God's children every bit as much as anyone, was the easier fight.

Getting the newcomers to this land to stop stealing from them, that fight seemingly never ends. And as the Native Americans tribes gained wealth, so did their political influence. An amazing coincidence.

What might look like a blind spot is (imo) likely just a realization that economic justice is fundamentally intertwined to social justice here in America, and maybe the whole world.

The blind spot, the beam in other peoples eye, is to think that people will proceed in advancing towards social justice without their being a concerted effort towards advancing economic justice. It doesn't happen that way.

Every (afaik) immigrant group to this nation improved their level of social justice as a result of their improving their economic circumstances. Hand in hand with that was their gaining footholds in the political system. Thank God for opur representative form of government.

Too many politicians talk of social justice while short changing its essential commitment, economic justice and opportunity. Talking of economic justice is far the tougher talk, it requires taking on people with something to lose. Though actually, in the long run, everyone wins from economic justice.

The interests against economic justice are numerous, and powerful, and with great resources to back them up. They'll spend a fortune to derail the message of economic justice. To carry it forward you need to thrust the message home like a spear, right into the heart of the matter, and over and over.

Senator Sanders knows what he's doing. He has my support.

P.S. I don't think this is just a matter of what Sander personally came to think. It's actually part and parcel of the form of progressive ideology he and many millions of others ascribe to.