2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: White progressive analysis of politics is fundamentally broken. [View all]jalan48
(13,797 posts)That's what rulers and politicians do to stay in power. I agree Trump used race. How do you stop the next candidate from doing exactly the same thing? It's always taken place throughout human history. The bigger question is who is doing the dividing and why? Do you think the .1% cares whether a black person joins their exclusive monetary club? What we need is a shift in how our society is structured economically. We can't have a handful of individuals having the combined wealth of millions of Americans and expect people not to be swayed by "it's that other group of poor people's fault".
As a part of this restructuring it's imperative that all Americans benefit, not just white people. How can we work together to make that happen? Headline's like "Fuck the white working class", which I have seen here on DU don't help. It keeps the focus on those at the bottom and not those setting the rules and reaping the benefits.