Third Way Progressives, Screwing the Plebs

[DemocraticWing]

140. I understand why they exist.

In academia they're the Marxists, who always view things through class and nothing else. It's a dumb, simplistic view of the world in my opinion. Those people support Bernie Sanders because he's the most economically left-wing person running, just like many of the demonized "SJW" millennials support him for being the most left-wing on social issues.

I don't regard Sanders as somebody who holds the Marxist view of class reductionism, although you can see the tinges of it in his rhetoric, probably based on something he learned at UChicago long ago. But I also think that, especially as the child of Jewish immigrants, he has a keen sense that things are much deeper than economics sometimes. Lots of people get a raw deal just because people don't like their race, religion, sexuality, or gender. Maybe he doesn't get it. Maybe everything is a lost cause. Maybe I'm just idealistic and want to think he's the closest thing to my personal views in politics anymore.

I also don't think economic justice is a less important issue. Having been poor my whole life, I'm fearful that one day everything will intersect into a crisis where I'm fired for being gay and subsequently starve at the hands of Reaganomics.