2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ticked off millennials are taking on the Democrats [View all]Kall
(615 posts)with increases in productivity since 1968, it would be $21 today. I don't doubt that you did work for minimum wage back in your day, but back in your day (whenever that was), the minimum wage bought a lot more than it does today.
That's quite a sleight of hand, making it seem like Bernie is in some way inferior to Hillary on social issues of race because he got less of the black vote without having decades-long connections in the Democratic Party apparatus, being the spouse of a southern Governor, or being the clear preference of the first black President (unfortunately not Jesse Jackson, who *he* endorsed (and got slapped for) back in *his* day. Apparently that wasn't enough though, the Clinton campaign had to go out and plant the idea that his Civil Rights record getting arrested protesting segregation was fictitious, while Hillary Clinton was always there.
We're all familiar with the modern Democratic Party's method of papering over economics with social issues, and while those certainly matter, it's exhausting to watch the rationale be limited to that for progress, as NAFTA, MFN for China, CAFTA and the "gold standard" TPP get pushed. Since you brought up LGBT issues, he's been better on that too anyway, voting against DOMA and not opposing marriage equality until 2013.