Sorry, Bernie but the Democrats know whose side they are on and whose side they have always been on

[karynnj]

227. Thanks - I have been frustrated by the way this has been made HRC supporters vs Bernie supporters

or "alt left" vs Democrats or other narratives that ignore that on many issues the entire range of Democrats have many many things in common that are NOT spoken about. It reminds me of having a long ago Economics professor say that economists really did agree as much as 80% of issues, but the interesting part was the disagreements - leading to the view that economists agreed on nothing.

It is important to look at what they do have in common -- and using 2016 in a positive way -- it is clear that anyone here could put together a very long list of things they agreed on. On most issues, even when they disagreed, it was mostly on the margins - compared to where the entire Republican party is. If 2016 is to painful, look at 2008, where on issue after issue there was very little difference between any of the three main possibilities.

Where there is an issue is on trade policy. Here, I think that everything that has made manufacturing job less available and diminished the chances of many non college educated people has been blamed on the trade policies. Yet if everyone ended today, it will not bring back jobs that were really lost due to the globalization of the labor market and even more so - automation. I grew up in a lower middle class to middle class northern Indiana town. About half my class went to college; the other half didn't. Many of the girls would did not go to college got jobs as secretaries or clerks in offices, locally or in Chicago. Now, there are fewer mills and anyone my age knows that the large typing pools disappeared and phones are answered by automated systems. Those jobs really are not coming back.