Bernie Sanders: “Move Beyond Identity Politics”

Is this something? Maybe:

[H]ere is my point — and this is where there is going to be a division within the Democratic Party. It is not good enough for somebody to say, ‘I’m a woman, vote for me.’ No, that’s not good enough. What we need is a woman who has the guts to stand up to Wall Street, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies, to the fossil fuel industry.

In other words, one of the struggles that you’re going to be seeing in the Democratic Party is whether we go beyond identity politics. I think it’s a step forward in America if you have an African-American CEO of some major corporation. But you know what, if that guy is going to be shipping jobs out of this country, and exploiting his workers, it doesn’t mean a whole hell of a lot whether he’s black or white or Latino.

It would be good for both Democrats and America if the Democratic Party heeded Sander’s advice. However, I fear the social justice warrior set is too deeply enmeshed into the gears of Democratic Party structures to give up without a fight. If it’s a choice between winning elections or wielding power by calling their political opponents racist bigots, I’m pretty sure they’re going to opt for the latter…

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