Provocative and, I think, accurate assessment. "What has happened in America should not be seen as a victory for hatefulness over decency. It is more accurately understood as a repudiation of the American power structure. At the core of that structure are the political leaders of both parties, their political operatives, and fundraisers; the major media, centered in New York and Washington DC; the country’s biggest corporations, their top executives, and Washington lobbyists and trade associations; the biggest Wall Street banks, their top officers, traders, hedge-fund and private-equity managers, and their lackeys in Washington; and the wealthy individuals who invest directly in politics..... There had been hints of the political earthquake to come. Trump had won the Republican primaries, after all. More tellingly, Clinton had been challenged in the Democratic primaries by the unlikeliest of candidates – a 74-year-old Jewish senator from Vermont who described himself as a democratic socialist and who was not even a Democrat. Bernie Sanders went on to win 22 states and 47% of the vote in those primaries. Sanders’ major theme was that the country’s political and economic system was rigged in favor of big corporations, Wall Street and the very wealthy.... Wealth, power and crony capitalism fit together. Americans know a takeover has occurred, and they blame the establishment for it. The Democratic party once represented the working class. But over the last three decades the party has been taken over by Washington-based fundraisers, bundlers, analysts, and pollsters who have focused instead on raising campaign money from corporate and Wall Street executives and getting votes from upper middle-class households in “swing” suburbs. Democrats have occupied the White House for 16 of the last 24 years, and for four of those years had control of both houses of Congress. But in that time they failed to reverse the decline in working-class wages and economic security. Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama ardently pushed for free trade agreements without providing millions of blue-collar workers who thereby lost their jobs means of getting new ones that paid at least as well." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/10/democrats-working-class-americans-us-election Progressive are where the votes will be in 4 years. Ellison will be running the DNC and Moosechelle just might be the DNC candidate.
I think Robert Reich has consistently voiced very well thought out opinions on a wide variety of issues. While I don't always agree, but usually, do, he makes good, well reasoned points. To me, this is EXACTLY what happened. I am so sick of the talking heads and black activists trying to make this a racists thing. Yeah, blaming on race is so easy, but it is also intellectually dishonest .. and that is the root cause of the whole issue, to begin with.
When we teach kids losing is still winning and that you lost (not because your opponent was better) but because the system is against you, this is what happens. Life isn't fair. Life isn't equal. We are not equal. However, of all the places on Earth, America gives you the best shot at a good life.
Also don't count the smugness of PC liberals. Telling people they are racists, while they try to limit free speech. People just flat out don't like to be told how they should be or act, and that's what you have in the Democratic Party.
On Real Time last night Bill acknowledge that, but then the panel turned into shaming again. Like the whole "uneducated" voter. Like who the fuck are they? Fuck you Bill. Sit in your ivory tower and keep putting people in groups. Talking about Trump being abusive to women, his campaign manager was a FEMALE. Trump is an asshole but he clearly supports women and minorities. And lastly. Half the country didn't fucking vote. Stop blaming half the country on being racist.
