More proof, if any were needed, that American politics never really did get past the 1960s.
Begin with the cosmetic.
Bernie Sanders Hires Black Organizer As Press Secretary
And then there's this, which adds a little maybe to his previous agenda but mostly re-frames a lot that was already there to look blacker, you might say.
Begin with the cosmetic.
Bernie Sanders Hires Black Organizer As Press Secretary
And then there's this, which adds a little maybe to his previous agenda but mostly re-frames a lot that was already there to look blacker, you might say.
As to what is ostensibly about race in this publication, a few bits here and there are good and make sense.
But it contains as well a lot of really bad ideas, in my own view.
And most of it is angry fist-waving and race-bellyaching race-bating, though admittedly the rhetoric is worse in that regard than either the wrongs adverted to or the suggested fixes.
As for what is about economic inequality, after reading this the question really does have to be asked whether Bernie is prepared ultimately to accept any degree of economic inequality, for any reason.
He makes many attacks on inequality and often quotes others, here especially MLK, doing the same.
I have never seen a word by him (or by MKL) defending economic inequality in any measure, arising from any source, or satisfying any condition.
Indeed, the ferocity and anger of Bernie's attacks on inequality go far to explaining why people question claims he is not at heart a pretty radical socialist but rather just another tweedy Scandinavian social democrat.
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