The "liberal elite"

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53. I fail to understand

Why the most urgent issues of the day involve attacking the Democratic party, including contrasting it as "elitist" in comparison to the GOP.

What you describe does is not what Bernie said yesterday. If everyone has to explain what he "really meant," he's not doing very well at communicating his message.

There certainly are political elites. Bernie is one of them. This article demonstrates how he uses power. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/sanders-revolution-resists-dnc-loss-235404

I don't believe he is in touch with reality. He may convey well the concerns of the white male middle and upper-middle class, but he certainly doesn't understand the reality of many Americans. His comments on the election are directly contradicted by exit poll data. He insists Trump voters aren't racist, ignoring the rise in hate crimes and lived experiences of many across this nation. Our concerns are dismissed as "identity politics."

If you read this thread, you will see Democrats living below the poverty level who were regularly insulted as being corporatist elites and banksters. Those wielding the insults were often comfortable economically. It is that pernicious and dishonest use of those terms that is so divisive.

If the point were to get money out of politics, that is accomplished through POLICY, not insults. Bernie appears to have abandoned concerns about campaign finance reform and now insists that all campaigns should be funded like his was. They can't be. Most candidates aren't on television several times a week. Public financing is the only just solution, so why do his comments focus on attacking Democrats rather than reforming the system through the law?

As the case of Jaime Harrison recounted in the Politico article above demonstrated, insults like "corporatist" and "elitist" are used for purely political purposes, just as they were against Democratic voters like those in this thread. I am here to say I see through it.