We Sanders supporters need to recognize that his brand is damaged now

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65. Well, not exactly, if you're speaking of Dems.

It was the white working/middle class. The average family in America earns about $52k, I read.

Why does everything have to be about race. Black this, white that. Seriously...good economic policies benefit everyone. "Whites" didn't defect to Trump. Some middle class factory workers did. (Those coal miners were always Republican.) Then there are some issues everyone agrees with that pertain particularly to certain minorities, like voter suppression of blacks, that has a long history in this country. (That practice now includes Hispanics.)

So for someone to give up trying to get votes from whites who earn over $30k a year doesn't make sense. The Dem Party will die if it restricts appealing to all races of all incomes and all kinds of workers, both blue and white collar. They ALL need insurance, they all want a good job, they all want Social Security and Medicare.

Poor people have special concerns and needs, but they are no more important as citizens or party members than rich people or middle class people. Though they do need someone looking after their interests more, since they have the least power.

To win means to get votes. You know who your base is, and you must take care to address their concerns. But it's great to try to broaden the base, or keep some of the fringe ones from straying. THAT is why some defected to Trump. Their concerns weren't being addressed.

It's possible for the Dem Party to address concerns of both poor people and middle class people. It used to.