Listening to Chris Matthews

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3. I'm a white guy in the philly burbs

But I know the people out in Pennsyltucky. Here's the thing, yes, there's a lot of racism and so on. A lot of general ignorance. A lot of religious nuts.

BUT...I can tell you there is a strong sentiment that democrats have focused most of their energy on minorities and gay rights and woman's issues, and very little on the troubles of the blue collar white man.

While this is misguided, as we all know democrats are the ones who fight for worker rights and unions and higher wages and lower college costs and so on, I think it's true that democrats haven't spoken out loudly and forcefully enough on these issues.

Couple that with these people growing up in these backward and regressive cultures, and you can see why the democrats keep losing more and more of the white vote. To THEM, they see the democrats as a party that fights for minorities and everyone else but then.

UNTIL Bernie came along. He spoke to them, primarily with his trade policies. This is where the future of the democratic needs to go to win the future.