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In reply to the discussion: I want to thank the defenders of misogyny [View all]BainsBane
(57,751 posts)Go ask Bravenak why she isn't supporting Sanders anymore. Ask 1strongblackman about his conversations about the primary at a recent gathering of black professionals.
In a way, you are right that is it about "identity politics" vs. economic "justice." Sanders supporters are overwhelmingly white, male and upper-middle and middle class. Their notion of economic justice is about regaining what they see as their rightful place atop the capitalist world order, and Sanders promises them that.
Some of the rest of us--the majority of Americans--women, the poor, people of color, who have always been at the bottom, don't feel the same urgency to abandon everything in order to promote their class interests. That for some is unacceptable because our lives are mere "identity politics," "social issues." The only economic "justice" being sought is for those who previously, and still, benefit from the inequality that IS and always has been America.
I explained my views on that here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=482991