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In reply to the discussion: How the extreme left gave us Nixon, Bush and now Trump [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I accept that the Sanders voting demographic skewed white and male-but that this was happenstance, rather than the campaign making a conscious decision to target that demographic.
I think the Sanders campaign's flaws on this were unintentional communications problems, rather than intentional dismissal.
Now, what we need is dialog between those who centered economic justice(most of whom also were strong supporters of anti-oppression politics)and those who centered and continue to center anti-oppression activism(the vast majority of whom are on the left on economic justice issues as well.
We need to stop framing this as some sort of blood feud between people who had been pro-Sanders and people who had been pro-Clinton, have the dialog that finally needs to happen between here, and create a platform for 2018 and 2020, no matter who runs in those years, that gives both sets of issues the importance they deserve and recognizes the links between them.
Like THIS document does:
https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/
Sound good to you?