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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders: A Man with A Hammer, Who Sees Nails Everywhere [View all]ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)99. "Moving into post-racial society"?
You've got to be kidding. John Lewis, who damn near have his own life to win the right to vote, has seen the USSC ratify voters ID laws, which Zoltan Hajnal and other turnout experts at ucsd.edu have convinced many are very effective modern day poll taxes.
Racial gaps in poverty rates, extreme poverty rates, and other social indicators are rising.
"Post-racial society", indeed.
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Even then...The "Bernie is a one track candidate" is such a false non-starter from the campaign.
merrily
Feb 2016
#152
I guess that balances out your Blah.Blah. Hilly bad. Bernie good. Blah blah blah.
JTFrog
Feb 2016
#39
What do you mean wow. Your OP sounds like it was written by a conservative republican. nt
m-lekktor
Feb 2016
#18
I got from this that its better to keep minorities poor than to give them jobs or pay them more.
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#17
I feel so sorry for the poor, downtrodden, billionaires being attacked by "comrade" Bernie.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2016
#23
Wouild "Picked on"? Balamed? Scorned? Attacked? Defamed? be more apt.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2016
#32
Jay Gould spouting Marxist lines-that IS the funniest thing I've come to in your posts yet.
hobbit709
Feb 2016
#46
Actually keeping the masses from uniting together keeps the elitists in power
OrwellwasRight
Feb 2016
#53
Is Nestle working little white children to death in the cocoa fields?
My Good Babushka
Feb 2016
#110
Dissent will NOT be tolerated. The revolution must proceed. Resistance is futile.
Persondem
Feb 2016
#63
"the billionaire class has almost not say in the management of local schools"?
OrwellwasRight
Feb 2016
#74
I'm an old black guy, father born in the depths of Jim Crow segregation, dirt poor sharecropper.
kennetha
Feb 2016
#82
OK - I'm an old white guy, grew up in a county 40% black (my first playmates
Ron Green
Feb 2016
#112
And Hillary is a woman who has a hammer but doesn't believe in using it,
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Feb 2016
#75
See, you support the candidate who attacked my basic rights on the basis that her Bible is a hammer
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2016
#123
That analogy is used to explain people (like Hillary) who always use the military option when
Motown_Johnny
Feb 2016
#126
TL;DR. Stopped at "Comrade Bernie" because the derp started to splash over the rim of the bowl.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2016
#143
There is nothing in there about what she proposes to do about any of that. n/t
eridani
Feb 2016
#150