2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Is Bernie taking a cue from Hillary? [View all]tech3149
(4,452 posts)He has been doing an hourly segment every week for at least that long. Taking calls and questions from an uncensored public. Are there any other candidates who can boast that level of interaction with the public?
Bernie's' lack of putting BLM and police abuse of power front and center is not giving an honest interpretation of what he has spent his whole life working for.
Those two issues are at the core of what he has worked to correct but it's counterproductive to focus a major issue within a narrow framework.
Another bigger picture understanding is that NO single politician can undo hundreds of years of racial bias through legislation. You can't change hearts and minds through legislation.
What you can do is eliminate the institutionalized racism by correcting policies that allow taking advantage of those with less political or economic power.
I'm sure I'll get shit for this but if you can correct some of the economic butt fucking we have all had to endure, we might just have the space to understand that the guy next to you isn't the problem regardless of the color of his skin.