Can Bernie Sanders Win the Love of a Party He Scorns?

[Ken Burch]

141. It's no comment on you as a person.

It's saying that, in allying itself with Wall Street, the Democratic Party has massively corrupted itself. Most rank-and-file Democrats believe the party needs to break totally with corporate power(even a lot of HRC supporters who back her mainly on the "electability" myth).

The assertion that the party needs saving is a statement of how far off track the party's leaders have gone-how much they have betrayed ordinary Democrats like me and like you.

It isn't anything negative about you or me as people at all, because we have been largely powerless in the post-1988 Democratic Party-a party that cares only about what CEO's and defense contractors want(and is only progressive either when forced to be from below or on trivial side issues).

Race matters. Sexual orientation matters. But class matters, too. in addressing class, we can bring in a lot of people who have been seduced by false consciousness into supporting policies and politicians that mainly dump on them. We can move those people past the temporary fears that have goaded them into hatred. We can make life better and make people better.

It's all good, and it's all part of making the world we need.