Sanders: ‘It’s not good enough…to say “I’m a woman, vote for me”.’
Bernie Sanders says we have to get beyond identity politics.
The independent Vermont Senator diagnosed why he believed Democrats lost the White House and failed to win back the Senate and House. “The working class of this country is being decimated — that’s why Donald Trump won,” Sanders said, according to reporting from Boston’s WBUR.
“It is not good enough for somebody to say, ‘I’m a woman, vote for me.’ That is not good enough,” Sanders said. “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 industries.”
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Dennis Smith November 21st, 2016 at 23:13
Nobody admires Bernie more than I, yet I find myself responding in contradict to his analyses of the election over and over. He, IMO, is as clueless as Hillary to the reasons behind the great loss. Reason #1 Racism – it is the silent elephant in the room. It permeates the Republican whites across the country. I believe the degree of racism is not understood by the Whites or even the Blacks and that factor was re-kindled starting with the murder of Trayvon Martin, the Ferguson riots of 2014 and the many racial conflicts that occurred during 2015 preceding Donald Trump, the racist, announcing his candidacy. He was received like a God on his announcement. However I feel Hilary could have still won the election had she not lectured her followers with her, Barack’s and Bernie’s famous statement “That is not who we are” in response to Trump’s position on Muslim and Hispanic immigration. IMO I think that is exactly who we are, and the three top Democratic officials simply never got it. As much as I oppose Republicanism, I found myself making statements like “If it were not for Trump saying he would appoint another Justice like Scalia to the Supreme Court I may be able to vote for him”. No I didn’t, but I’ll bet others did in spite of themselves.
BigD November 22nd, 2016 at 11:46
Since the repubs are against everything I care about and believe, there’s no way I could ever for repubs and/or Trump. When you vote for a candidate, you get their party and what that party stands for. Why haven’t folks figured this out?
fedele November 22nd, 2016 at 16:53
Racism has nothing to do with it. She was a flawed candidate to begin with. Whether those flaws were real or imagined they were a thorn nevertheless. She lost due to the Democratic establishment and Hillary herself. They both had tunnel vision. They were so mesmerized by breaking a glass ceiling that they lost sight of their constituents. They fooled themselves into thinking that the rest of us were betting on her womanhood as the driving factor. Many of her ideas and policies were not analogous to Bernie’s until he conceded and she had to appease him by adopting (pretending to adopt) some of his platform. She was arrogant and assumed his supporters would follow suit. Nobody listened to the workers, the blue collar workers, who wanted their jobs back. They didn’t trust her to denounce the TPP, fight Wall Street and bankers. Every city she lost to Trump, Bernie won in the primary. That should tell you enough. Add to this the fact the Democrats wanted nothing to do with Bernie nor his supporters in the first place and refused to have open primaries. Then her supporters took a page out of the Republican playbook and bullied, shamed, lied and fear mongered any Democrats, Independents, Green parties, even Republicans into voting for her. If it HAD been racism or any other reason, she would have gotten more than 1/4 of the country to vote for her. The country was apathetic to begin with because we had the two most disliked candidates in the history of the country. No one wanted to believe WE make the change and so nobody went for “the other”. The sooner the Democrats, Hillary and her supporters realize this was her demise, it will happen again.