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Starry Eyed Jagaloon
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« on: October 18, 2017, 03:10:06 PM »

No good reason? She was asked about the party becoming the party of "identity politics" and rightfully lambasted Sen. Sanders who has said since the defeat in November that Democrats need to be quiet about "social" issues and primarily focus on economic ones so we don't piss off triggered snowflakes in the Rust Belt. She beat him soundly in the primary so clearly her way is the way the majority of the party wants to go.

Hillary Clinton lost because of who she is, not her policies.

Sanders can go minimize the concerns of racial minorities in 99.9 percent white Vermont.

You know what would help minorities to get out of poverty and blighted inner cities? Left-wing economics instead of sucking up lilly-white Wall Street.
Once again, populist leftists scapegoat the financial industry upon which everyone depends and portray a false narrative in which the only way to help working class people is to focus exclusively on their interests and create a class war.
PS. You can't win an election with just working class people. Most Americans aren't working class.
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Starry Eyed Jagaloon
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2017, 04:52:15 PM »

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Umm.... what? Jesus christ, I come from a well-off family but even I know this is incredibly out-of-touch. Most people aren't making over $100,000 a year and are trying to make ends meet......

I'm not trying to create a class war. I just see income inequality as a huge issue in America that keeps on getting worse and worse. You have to do something to fix this issue. I'm not saying burn down all the banks, but jesus, try to find some policy that helps working Americans. America has so many benefits for people who are old and close to retirement/retire (Social Security and Medicare), but yet it has few benefits for working class Americans? Yet we pay all these taxes for social security, medicare, military spending... and for the vast majority of Americans they get little for it? Medicare and Social Security are great programs, but most people aren't 62 or older, yet they're spending so much of their income on these programs + military spending.
Working class isn't 100k per year. About 10% are poor, 30% are working class, 35% are middle class, 20% are upper middle class, and 5% are rich. I agree we should help people (raise minimum wage, high spending on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc., but I reject the premise that good policy isn't in the best interest of all classes, and that income inequality is inherently bad.
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Starry Eyed Jagaloon
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« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2017, 09:55:19 PM »

it was willing to nationalize industries.
Advocating for redistributionist policies
No! No! No! No! No!
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