2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders: A Man with A Hammer, Who Sees Nails Everywhere [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Short answer- he's not Trotsky, nice try.
"How?" Hmmmm, how about by raising the top marginal rate on the top earners, raising the minimum wage to a livable one- $15- and working for a single payer health care system. For starts.
Maybe to you that sounds just like the Bolsheviks collectivizing soviet industry, but ....it really ain't.
As for the rest of it, these arguments -coming from camp hillary, of course- are predicated on the premise that, unlike Sanders with his "single issue focus on economic justice", Hillary Clinton is somehow positioned to "do something about" things like racism in our society.
So.... Um, how?
Unless racism is going to be eliminated by her proposal to break the encryption on your iphone, she hasnt exactly come out wih a detailed slate of policy proposals to "do away with" any of this shit.
Apparently just by being Hillary the societal barriers will come crashing down.
And sanders supporters get accused of not having concrete 'get from here to there' plans. Laughable.