"White People are Not as Important as Bernie Sanders Thinks"

[wildeyed]

96. I gave up on white people in politics after 2004.

I marinated in my rage, sorrow and disbelief after we sent GWB back for a second term for a month or so. And then I got really, really clear about who had my back in elections. Swing voters cannot be trusted. They want you to suck up endlessly, then abandon you at key moments. And more white people voted for Bush than for Kerry, but almost zero black people voted for Bush.

So the answer was to help more black people and those who identified with what later became known as the Obama coalition to vote, and that would decrease the importance of the swing vote in national elections. To me and many others, it seemed obvious; that was the way to a REAL progressive majority.

GOP understood and immediately began introducing legislation like voter ID to decrease turnout. But Bernie Sanders doesn't seem to understand, and many of his supporters don't get it either. Demographically, we are almost to the point where the white voters previously know as Reagan Democrats and before that known as Dixiecrats are inconsequential. And this is GREAT. That means we don't have to suck up to them anymore. But sadly, many whites, even "progressive" whites, don't see it that way.