"Once you get off of the social issues abortion, gay rights, guns and into the economic issues,"

[Hekate]

48. Ridiculous. Go back and read Bernie's very own words. Forget the campaign: the man has been...

...remarkably consistent throughout his life. You could completely excise the primary campaign from his record and have decades of quotes before then to work with -- and going on a year of quotes from after the Convention till now, and he sounds the same.

So what we are doing at DU in the Here and Now is talking about that record, especially since November 8, 2016.

It's Bernie himself who consistently identifies the working class as being composed of white men whose mining and manufacturing jobs are disappearing. Bernie.

Meanwhile, most women and minorities are in the category of workers who mostly never got into those formerly well paid jobs in the first place. They predominate in the service sector, where wages have always been crap. Are they not "working class"? Bernie never mentions them, except to insist minimum wage must be a certain dollar amount across the country, regardless of the cost of living in different regions.

Incidentally, those jobs are largely about to disappear as well, due to a variety of factors, from Amazon to Automation. Will Bernie then talk about the collapse of the retail market and untold thousands of mostly-women who will then be out of work? Or will they still not be working class?

I'd like to know his answer.

Seriously, talking about the "two minute hate" just doesn't cut it. It's not about you.