It seems Progressives snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory. Just think of how the Sanders movement focused attention on the class divide. We were having real discussions on inequality in economics. Then Clinton won the primaries and any discussion of class vanished. Some of my DSA friends see this as being on purpose to let rich li…
It seems Progressives snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory. Just think of how the Sanders movement focused attention on the class divide. We were having real discussions on inequality in economics. Then Clinton won the primaries and any discussion of class vanished. Some of my DSA friends see this as being on purpose to let rich liberals feel on the right side of history without their taxes increasing. I agree with most ' woke' positions ( used to call them Enlightened) but the language young progressives use is guaranteed to alienate most Americans. Example; use ' fairness' instead of 'equality'. Instead of talking about how something hurts Communities of Color talk of hurting the Working Class regardless of color. Bernie or AOC try to use more inclusive language that doesn't ignore the White part of the working class. We know dividing the White workers from Black ones was a conscious strategy to suppress the emergence of a multi racial class consciousness
Agreed. It's really a problem that Republicans - Bannon was particularly skillful at this, as was Trump - stole the language of class conflict from Democrats. Talking about class is the bread-and-butter of the Democratic Party, and I suspect that the future of the Democrats - and of everything, really - is to come up with a winning discourse focused on class and economics.
It seems Progressives snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory. Just think of how the Sanders movement focused attention on the class divide. We were having real discussions on inequality in economics. Then Clinton won the primaries and any discussion of class vanished. Some of my DSA friends see this as being on purpose to let rich liberals feel on the right side of history without their taxes increasing. I agree with most ' woke' positions ( used to call them Enlightened) but the language young progressives use is guaranteed to alienate most Americans. Example; use ' fairness' instead of 'equality'. Instead of talking about how something hurts Communities of Color talk of hurting the Working Class regardless of color. Bernie or AOC try to use more inclusive language that doesn't ignore the White part of the working class. We know dividing the White workers from Black ones was a conscious strategy to suppress the emergence of a multi racial class consciousness
Agreed. It's really a problem that Republicans - Bannon was particularly skillful at this, as was Trump - stole the language of class conflict from Democrats. Talking about class is the bread-and-butter of the Democratic Party, and I suspect that the future of the Democrats - and of everything, really - is to come up with a winning discourse focused on class and economics.