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Showing Original Post only (View all)Are movement politicians like Bernie tone deaf? [View all]
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_28818555/harrop-intolerance-bernie-sandersThat's the problem with movement politics, no matter what end of the political spectrum they occupy. Movement politics tend to be narcissistic and dictatorial. They allow dissent only within a narrow philosophical band. That constrains the ability to hear through others' ears.
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Sanders has much mellowed since then, but he still inhabits a self-righteous cocoon that has made him an ineffective and marginal figure in the Senate.
Even Democrats express frustration at working with Sanders, an independent who caucuses with them. Moderates bristle at his moralizing and refusal to make compromises required to pass needed legislation. The undeniably liberal Barney Frank, former rep from Massachusetts, complained of Sanders' "holier-than-thou attitude."
Bernie's positions on civil rights have been close to impeccable, but his history with nonwhites is more complicated.
Back in 1960s New York, black radicals weren't keen to sit at the knees of white intellectuals and be told what's what. The ensuing tensions prompted many white radicals to flee to the more accommodating hills of Vermont. Sanders was one. There's no gentler way to put this, but they were part of the era's white flight.
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Oh, we've gone around that rosebush. Poor Bravenak got hides for daring to mention it.
MADem
Nov 2015
#29
I cant help myself here, did you hear Superman is real, actually alive? Exists?
randys1
Dec 2015
#62
It has nothing to do with your question.. and this is why BS is not popular with AA and Latinos..
Cha
Dec 2015
#56
Flooding black people's social media with ANY candidate is a recipe for a big assed, embarrassing
Number23
Nov 2015
#25
And/But I have no problem with my suspicions that some of those doing the former ...
1StrongBlackMan
Nov 2015
#51
He has taken advantage of a fracture in the Democratic Party, between theprogressive/semi-socialist
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#35
I was not and do not Support Sanders. That was just a statement on his campaign.
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#47