Bernie echoes O's infamous, patronizing, and contemptuous remarks about white working class men.
This was O in 2008.
A political storm is brewing over Sen. Barack Obama's recent statements.
Last Sunday, Obama was explaining his difficulty with winning over working-class voters in Pennsylvania and the Midwest, saying they have become frustrated with economic conditions:
"And it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," Obama said.
The comments were posted Friday on The Huffington Post, creating a wave of criticism from Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. John McCain, and other politicians as the April 22 Pennsylvania primary draws near.
This was Bernie just yesterday.
In a pre-taped interview for CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Sanders said many of Trump’s supporters are “working-class people” who have “legitimate” angers and fears because of decreasing wages and the rising cost of college tuition, among other reasons.
“What Trump has done with some success is taken that anger, taken those fears, which are legitimate, and converted them into anger against Mexicans, anger against Muslims,” Sanders said.
The Vermont senator said he would instead work to channel that same anger into support for proposals such as raising the minimum wage — as opposed to “dividing us up and having us hate Mexicans or Muslims.”
“We need policies that bring us together, that take on the greed of Wall Street, the greed of corporate America,” Sanders said.
It is a point of leftish Democratic propaganda - do they really believe it? - that all forms of social misbehavior from criminal anti-policing riots in Baltimore to Jihad in Syria, from drug dealing in New York to piracy off the coast of Somalia, are due to poverty, lack of opportunity, and economic frustration in general.
Not least including white working class rejection of Democrat-favored policies and support for the Republican Party, which they always also, and somewhat incoherently, attribute to racism.
It's the retail version addressing specific social ills - and these Democrats certainly regard popular support for Republicans or any of their agenda as a social ill - of the broad utopian faith of the social engineer who thinks, or says he thinks, that if only he is allowed to correctly arrange society and all its institutions misbehavior will end and all will be swell.
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