2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: All this shit implying Sanders supporters are racists and sexists needs to stop. [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)criticisms of the new neoliberal orthodoxy: the Dems didn't appeal to the RW populists, nor should they, but they tossed anyone making under $40K into the rubbish and went off looking for smart, soft-hands work like IT, entertainment, and Wall Street
there's even the positive glee among the Lena Dunham types that the White middle class's dying--that it's coming to them after decades of subsidizing (that is a SJW, ironically: doubly ironically they're all lilywhite suburban sophomores who'd lecture a hypothetical gay Brazilian campesino activist crippled by the ranchers on his cis privilege): this type gets nothing done and is proud of it, a photonegative of the political sadist or the Asshole Uncle screaming at one thing over hate radio even though yesterday's declaration was the opposite
it also reduces voters, boils them down to pushable buttons: she'll drink White tears for one audience and go Rahm for another, and that definitely won't help civil society!