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Related: About this forumScholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Applauds Sanders for Activating 'Typically Invisible'
Multiracial Coalition With 'Class Warfare' Campaign
Scholar and activist Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Tuesday argued that Sen. Bernie Sanders' strong standing in the 2020 Democratic presidential race is attributable to his success in mobilizing a multiracial coalition of working class people who are often rendered invisible by the corporate media and political establishment.
"Neither the Democratic Party establishment nor the mainstream media really understand his campaign," Taylor, assistant professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, wrote in the New York Times Tuesday. "That's because it disregards conventional wisdom in politics todaytax cuts for the elite and corporations and public-private partnerships to finance healthcare, education, housing, and other public services."
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"This has meant its support for Mr. Sanders's candidacy has been hard to register in the mainstream coverage of the Democratic race," Taylor wrote. "Mr. Sanders has reached the typically invisible, downwardly mobile working class with his language of 'class warfare.' He has tapped into the anger and bitterness coursing through the lives of regular people."
"Without cynicism or the typical racist explanations that blame African-Americans and Latino immigrants for their own financial hardship, Mr. Sanders blames capitalism," Taylor added. "His demands for a redistribution of wealth from the top to the rest of society and universal, government-backed programs have resonated with the forgotten residents of the country."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/10/scholar-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-applauds-sanders-activating-typically-invisible
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)This sounds like socialism.
Because we all know how well capitalism works....
for the capitalists.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Uncle Joe
(58,354 posts)have ceded to having un-regulated overlords, of course it didn't happen overnight but more as a slow devolution from "We the People" to corporate welfare.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)This country started a revolution against a monarch, and has no problem with allowing the rich to take the control previously exercised by that monarch.
Like the supposed freedom to choose our own bad corporate healthcare plan.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)the homeless, those with physical or mental disabilities, children, caretakers most typically women for care for the elderly or those with disabilities.
i've seen so many interviews with the working class...and pretty much none with the truly invisible
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
zentrum
(9,865 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)That's funny!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JoeOtterbein
(7,700 posts)...the coolest!
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Uncle Joe
(58,354 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
JoeOtterbein
(7,700 posts)...Philosopher!
LOL! Have fun tonight Uncle Joe!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Uncle Joe
(58,354 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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