2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie's campaign has gone completely off the rails ... [View all]upaloopa
(11,417 posts)president.
So when does that start? He knows he is not going to be the nominee. Yet he turns against the Democratic party.
He said the Democratic party is responsible for the working class becoming republican. That is really a hard one to prove.
President Johnson said that because of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights act he lost the South for the rest of his life and longer. The Southern working class did not become Republican because Johnson wasn't progressive enough.
Reagan Democrats were voting against Jimmy Carter. Even though Carter took the party on a less progressive path. Reagan Dems were not voting for Reagan because Jimmy Carter was not progressive enough.
So I think Bernie is not being genuine when he insinuates that the Democratic Party turned the Working class against it because it wasn't what he thinks the party should become.
He knows the truth but he doesn't tell it like it is.