Robert Reich: The Revolt of the Anxious Class

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4. As usual, he's right but

I disagree about the bigot/racist point. If they didn't harbor racial anxieties and deep seated fears, the red meat dog whistles wouldn't work. Reich is not qualified to make that call because he doesn't see/hear/feel the subtleties of racism and it's not simply an economic problem, it's a social one. Those roots go very, very deep. He can't see/hear/feel the subtleties because he hasn't lived it. He shouldn't have said anything about race at all, he's not helping Bernie by affirming denials about racism. We have to do more than correct the economic structures of inequality, we need cultural change.

That said, he's right about everything else.