Bernie Sanders and the Peter Principle

[Half-Century Man]

46. Welcome back, I have missed your fire.

Your passion is absolutely amazing, even when I'm feeling the lash from it.
I get pulled into the strike zone by being a Sanders supporter, and I fit more of the criteria by being Caucasian, preferring cargo pants and relying on the internet. Out of the 56 (7?) members of the last 4 generations of my family, 3 have gotten a college degree. I am one of them. Most of us careered on factory floors, a lot of us did a stint in the service. I do not think we are elite at anything or in anyway. But we have benefited from white privilege without realizing it.

What is referred to as White Privilege (lack of negative assumptions upon sighting, genuine social courtesies extended, hailing taxis at will, lack of profiling by LEOs, etc) is the normal behavior that should be extended to everyone. It should be the baseline of our entire society. Even with it, My life has been just above bad, the last ten years the worst. I shudder to think where I would be without that privilege. Anyone who has to live that way gets whatever support I have left.

I don't know what influence Mr. Sanders has on the personal behavior of people who follow him. I don't know what influence Ms. Clinton has on her followers. The behavior by some on both sides has been terrible. Dedications clash.
A history professor I respected told us that the wars between different sects of the extremely religious followers of the same religion were the bloodiest ones. Each side viewed the other as heretics, far worse than the non-believers. I think we at DU are the extreme followers of the Democratic Party, and we are dealing with a clash of sects.

For what it is worth, I rewote each of those paragraphs at least 3 times. I had a general theme in mind but lost it along the way. I guess what I meant to say was

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