2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WaPo: "Bernie Sanders just gave an amazingly condescending interview about Hillary Clinton" [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)Bernie is doing exactly what he should be doing. keeping up the pressure to keep those issues alive in the presiden tial campaign and mainstream politics.
Otherwise, they will disappear. The specifics or alternative approaches won't matter because the issues will be glossed over, just as they have been for several decades....Or mischaracterized as pet causes of the "far left."
Other than being a political football, for example, how many in-depth reports has Chris Lizzard written about the actual impact of low wages on real people -- or the economic impact of $15 vs. $12....or the movement (which long predates Sanders' presidential run) for a livable wage?
Mr. Lizzard is too busy at his fancy restaurants to worry about such trivia.
The MSM -- and too many Democratic politicians -- were NOT focusing on these issues, or even raising them before. Sanders at least brought them into a mainstream presidential campaign.
Unfortunately, if Clinton follows the longstanding pattern, issues like htat will merely be given lip service to. Instead it will all be about how many women Trump has slept with over his life, or whether Clinton is good at projecting "empathy, and the other crap that passes for political/media discussion.