It's very strange that you hate the politician most aligned with your positions, needs and ideals more than any other.
One would even think that's hypocritical.
When you say hypocrite, I laugh.
I don't hate Bernie. How many times do I have to say that I support what Bernie is doing? What he's doing is a very smart move to appeal to moderate conservative and moderate liberal white voters. To do so, he's abandoning minority group's issues.
I hate that white people like you, Pad and st0 are abandoning the civil rights movement. But African Americans are used to this. They've seen it before, are seeing it today and will see it again some time in the future. I don't hate you, I hate your facile claim of being liberal when you are selling out to systematic racism.
So, really, I'm not castigating Bernie. He's being smart. I'm castigating his followers for acting in their own self interest and not the best interests of all the people of this country. Just their own self interest. Disappointed.
I shouldn't be disappointed, I should have seen this coming. I knew something wasn't right when Bernie went all-in with divisive politics with the Democratic Party. He's distancing himself from African American and Hispanic Americans and cuddling up to the white majority by being absolutely silent about uncomfortable issues like immigration and Black Lives Matter. He never was interested in those issues. The demographics of who voted for him reflect how each group cares about those issues too. White people make up 66% of the population and no changes are going to happen without a sizable portion of that group behind it. And so, enter higher taxes on the wealthy while cop violence on black people is flushed from political consideration.
But I do see the handwriting on the wall. Just like in the mid 70's when the Vietnam war ended, anti-war white boomers abandoned their black and brown brothers to go to discos and live the high life. After 8 years of a black president during which there was much talk of breaking glass ceilings and ending our racist justice system, Bernie and his reform movement are absolutely silent about on those topics. "Our Revolution" is retrograde in some areas like women's right to choose. I think we are going to get some economic reform, maybe higher taxes on the wealthy, reform campaign financing and then kick the can of systematic and institutional racism down the road. Why not? White people have it pretty good in this system compared to non-whites.
