The establishment news media slighted the crushing victory of "
socialist " Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the Idaho and
Utah caucuses- nearly 70-80 percent ?
If the Sanders fans were predominantly white, it had nothing to do with any latent " white privilege " racism. In general,democratic socialists have a class perspective on unacceptable economic inequality in America.
Socialist Michael Harrington's book " The Other America " inspired LBJ's " War on Poverty " back in 60s. Poor white people were hardly invisible to Harrington .
The elderly in general had it tough before Medicare. Social Security is not in the least " racist ". You can also read about " homeless alcoholics " in " The Other America ". I have observed in Kennedy Plaza in Providence, Rhode Island. that most of the homeless are white.
The U.S. ruling class plays a divide and conquer game. And Hillary's identity politics has nothing in common with even the mild mannered socialism of Bernie Sanders. Hillary is a neo-Democrat who has no quarrel with our capitalist way of life.
Poor whites have been invisible in the mass news media for decades now. Most poor people are white. They have much in common with poor black people. In general class trumps race in explaining the misery index in America.
Black Muslim Malcolm X made this connection between capitalism and racism, between capitalism and imperialism way back in 1965
Not for nothing I expect " socialist " Bernie Sanders to do as well here in Rhode Island as he did in Michigan.. We never recovered from the Great Recession.
If the Sanders fans were predominantly white, it had nothing to do with any latent " white privilege " racism. In general,democratic socialists have a class perspective on unacceptable economic inequality in America.
Socialist Michael Harrington's book " The Other America " inspired LBJ's " War on Poverty " back in 60s. Poor white people were hardly invisible to Harrington .
The elderly in general had it tough before Medicare. Social Security is not in the least " racist ". You can also read about " homeless alcoholics " in " The Other America ". I have observed in Kennedy Plaza in Providence, Rhode Island. that most of the homeless are white.
The U.S. ruling class plays a divide and conquer game. And Hillary's identity politics has nothing in common with even the mild mannered socialism of Bernie Sanders. Hillary is a neo-Democrat who has no quarrel with our capitalist way of life.
Poor whites have been invisible in the mass news media for decades now. Most poor people are white. They have much in common with poor black people. In general class trumps race in explaining the misery index in America.
Black Muslim Malcolm X made this connection between capitalism and racism, between capitalism and imperialism way back in 1965
Not for nothing I expect " socialist " Bernie Sanders to do as well here in Rhode Island as he did in Michigan.. We never recovered from the Great Recession.
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