Bernie Sanders' Genius Is Two-Fold

 

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Dear Fred,

Sanders genius is two-fold: he "follows the money" and follows it with such tenacity that he is never waylaid, never taken "off message."

Nor does it hurt that Bernie considers the Gross National Product a socio-economic patrimony to be shared by everyone.

In Bernie's mind -- and this component of his thought is essentially socialist -- it does not matter how cleverly the wealthy automate production. Despite the swelling ranks of unemployed workers -- whom The 1% represent as "the undeserving poor" -- everyone still shares in the bounty.

 
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Oddly, Sarah Palin understands this, or, more accurately, has been compelled by political history -- coupled with political expediency -- to "do the right thing."

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Pax tecum

Alan

 

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On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:

you're right about identity politics going back a long way....... Sanders seems to a fair-minded fellow, but he doesn't know how to reach people unlike himself.  

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Alan Archibald <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Fred,

Thanks for your email.

I think identity politics have long thriven in the Democratic Party -- immigrant Irish, Italian, Polish and (to a lesser, but significant extent) German.

The Democratic Party has also been identified with Unions ever since their heyday in the front part of last century.

"Back in the day" unions were also far more populated than they are now. 

If blacks had had a significant place in the economy (and the fact that they were absent from the economy is one of the grotesque -- and largely overlooked/ignored -- components of ubiquitous racism) they would have been automatically included in The Democratic Party's "union wing."

This same "invisibility factor" holds for gays.

Pax tecum

Alan

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:

"The senator’s standard stump speech – a call for political revolution – does not include much specifically aimed at Latino or African-American voters."

But Sanders does not cater to identity politics -- which is the curse of the Democratic Party.

Minority voters will find him a bit stiff -- and they should not hold that against him  -- but they will hold that against him and that will be a shame

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Alan Archibald <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear John,

Check this out.

To Every Republican Acting SHOCKED About Donald Trump's Attack On McCain's War Record

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/07/to-every-republican-acting-shocked.html

Pax tecum

Alan

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