Robert Reich: Trump Represents What's Wrong With America, While Bernie Represents What's Right

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34364-trump-represents-whats-wrong-with-america-while-bernie-represents-whats-right

Bernie is taking on Trump. On Sunday, during an appearance on “Face the Nation,” Bernie said he’d to a better job representing the economic interests of Trump’s middle-class and blue-collar followers, because Trump opposes raising the minimum wage and supports tax cuts for higher-income earners. At a rally Sunday night in Las Vegas, Bernie noted that “there are people out there, Donald Trump and others, who are attempting to do what demagogues have always done, and that is instead of bringing people together to address and solve the real problems that we face, what they try to do is tap the anger and the frustration that people are feeling and then divide us up. So we have a message to Trump and all the others out there who want to divide us up: No, we’re not going to hate Latinos, we’re not going to hate Muslims, we are going to stand together.”

Yesterday, Trump shot back on Twitter. “Strange, but I see wacko Bernie Sanders’ allies coming over to me because I’m lowering taxes, while he will double and triple them. A disaster!”

Bernie fired back, saying Trump is pushing “pathetic policies” designed to benefit billionaires such as Trump at the expense of misguided working-class voters who support him. “Being called wacko by a pathological liar like Mr. Trump makes me think he is getting nervous that the American people are catching on to his pathetic policies, which include giving hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to billionaires like himself while refusing to raise the $7.25 an hour minimum wage.”

[daleanime]

1. Yeahup.....

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Trump supporters want to vote against their interests

Trump would privatize everything. He thinks people shouldn't be paid more. He is a disgrace to humanity.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Trump supporters are putting their faith in what they see as a supreme leader....

Classic fascism.

If he becomes the Republican nominee the corporate media will fall in line and look like 30's Germany propaganda.

[Nyan]

3. Robert Reich needs to get a post

in president Bernie's cabinet.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. "Treasury Secretary Reich" sounds nice

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. Is he qualified?

I thought you had to sit on the board at Goldman Sachs.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. I think Bernie would be OK with the lack of Goldman Sachs experience

In fact, it would probably be a plus

[Proserpina]

4. This being America, where every possible wrong solution is tried first before conceding to reality

I have to ask:

Have we suffered enough fools already? Is it time for a revolution?

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, eridani.

[loyalsister]

6. I was waffling, but I'm all in now

Bernie understands racism and what white people need to do to address it. Bernie is taking on Trump and working to enlist his exploited supporters to help. This article is what brought me to that conclusion.


In 2016, white people must take responsibility for Donald Trump

"White people, come get your boy.”

Depending on how you read that line from comedian W. Kamau Bell about Donald Trump, you might take it as a joke. Or you might take offense.

But Bell meant it as a call to action – because Trump is not a Republican problem. He’s a white-people problem.

For the uninitiated, here’s a primer on “getting your boy.” First, you need to tell said “boy” that he is making you look bad in front of polite company. This is a familiar practice to people of color: Whenever a black or brown person does something unsavory in public, members of their community know that it will – fairly or not – reflect on them.

his target is not the fringes. Instead, as Duke says, Trump’s campaign is an appeal to “the values and interests of the European-American majority.”

White people should feel insulted by this. They should feel ashamed – as white people – of Donald Trump. Whites need to stand up and say that they will not allow Trump to hijack their culture, or to conduct his racist politics in their name.

The second part of “getting your boy” goes beyond distancing yourself from him. A community must take responsibility for any damage that has been done, and take steps to correct it.

White America hasn’t gotten to this step yet –

Bernie is taking it on by calling Trump out.

Contrary to Clinton supporters outcry, Bernie seems to have in mind that it is up to white people to take responsibility for Trump and his rise. How often have white people truly confronted the racism we have seen over the course of Obama's presidency?
I know on my part, I've been mad and made the observations, but I have not written to Claire McCaskill imploring her to call it out. I have not often taken steps to educate bigots. I have just gotten mad and written them off.
I'm seeing it differently since the Mizzou protests. We white people can and must create opportunities to talk to them about how they are being exploited because they have more in common with POC than they do Trump's core constituency.

Whites, however, have a particular strategic position in the push for social justice, said Kamau Bell in a phone interview with The Times.

“Just being realistic,” he says, “white people listen to other white people better than they listen to anyone else.”

In fact, many whites may not even have anyone else to listen to. “Fully three-quarters of white Americans report that the network of people with whom they discuss important matters is entirely white, with no minority presence,” according to a report by the Public Religion Research Institute.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-prez-white-people-responsibility-trump-20151230-story.html

Bernie clearly considers himself to be among those of us who need to go get our boys instead of writing them off.

[Duckfan]

8. Rump supporters are in the minority.

They are only .000000005% of the electorate. This figure is only a ballpark number.