Bernie is 110% right poor people don't vote

[beedle]

59. Thank you for speaking so eloquently for the poor.

You are correct, 'the poor' is a subject that establishment types are afraid to talk about, evidenced by how fast they moved away from talking about people who are poor and their issues, to 'horse race' issues and who this theoretical 'the poor' group plays on electoral politics.

Just look what happens when someone does start to talk about 'the poor' ... the establishment doesn't actually talk about the poor, instead it does all it can to turn talk of 'the poor' into some kind of 'meta' issue ... 'the poor' is not about 'people', the establishment twists the issue into a fake conversation about who can talk about them, how they affect the 'horse race', the 'hidden agenda' of politicians who mention them ... not an actual word about the policies and how they effect PEOPLE ... it's as though 'the poor' were a bunch of rich trust fund teenagers who don't vote because of their own self absorbed attention to superficial things like sports cars and designer shoes (ignoring that being poor is an exercise in 'self absorbed attention' to surviving the day.) They play it as though there are no known reasons why this 'the poor' group doesn't go out and vote ... "must be their own fault, because obviously there are no barriers to them getting out to vote if they were really politically engaged .. the rich are politically engaged, and they lead busy lives too, so what's wrong with this 'the poor' group?"