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In reply to the discussion: Bye bye, Bernie: He's not fit to captain the Democratic ship if he can't stop chasing the great... [View all]pnwmom
(109,703 posts)32. Yes. "Sanders: Democrats must move beyond identity politics."
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/307014-sanders-dems-must-move-beyond-identity-politics
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that the Democratic Party must move beyond identity politics in order to connect with a larger share of the voting public.
"It is not good enough for somebody to say, 'I'm a woman, vote for me.' That is not good enough," Sanders told a crowd at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, according to WBUR.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/bernie-sanders-democrats-identity-politics-231710
And one message I do have for Democrats is that a strategy thats just micro-targeting particular, discrete groups in a Democratic coalition sometimes will win you elections, but its not going to win you the broad mandate that you need, Obama told reporters during a joint news conference in Lima, Peru, on Sunday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that the Democratic Party must move beyond identity politics in order to connect with a larger share of the voting public.
"It is not good enough for somebody to say, 'I'm a woman, vote for me.' That is not good enough," Sanders told a crowd at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, according to WBUR.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/bernie-sanders-democrats-identity-politics-231710
And one message I do have for Democrats is that a strategy thats just micro-targeting particular, discrete groups in a Democratic coalition sometimes will win you elections, but its not going to win you the broad mandate that you need, Obama told reporters during a joint news conference in Lima, Peru, on Sunday.
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Bye bye, Bernie: He's not fit to captain the Democratic ship if he can't stop chasing the great... [View all]
DonViejo
Apr 2017
OP
When a "friend" is "perpetuating the dangerous myth that the Democrats have ignored them"...
SunSeeker
Apr 2017
#59
No, he said that last November. But he still thinks class is more important than anything else. n/t
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#38
"75 percent of working-class voters of color voted for Clinton, not Trump, last year."
Tarheel_Dem
Apr 2017
#14
He already had his re-election committee set up (as an Independent) before last year's convention.
George II
Apr 2017
#19
Sorry Sanders and HRC voted the same 93% of the time. Not much daylight between their records
emulatorloo
Apr 2017
#41
The resistance has been majority women- every protest, 85% of calls to congress,
bettyellen
Apr 2017
#108