2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My take On Bernie- [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)gas off like that. This sort of rhetoric in the OP is the exact sort of rhetoric we don't need. It is in fact off putting to people who were not in fact better off back in those days to say 'the average guy' had it better, that means 'blacks, gays and Latinos, you are not average guys'. It just does. And for what? What is gained from such an argument, that the 50's were better for 'average people'? I really don't know so I'm asking.
I support Bernie because I want to go forward, to a better future, not backward to some fantasy Main St that lives in the minds of a few.
When you type 'sure there was racism and homophobia but it was still better' you have said just that. As political rhetoric, I do not see the value in it. It is a mitigation of injustice, posing as a call for justice.
Any voter who was given the short end of the stick during those 'golden years' would not really find much appeal in that message. It is those voters Bernie most needs to reach. Thus to support Bernie, can this sort of bullshit.
That's my opinion.