Bernie Sanders or bust? That's a stance based on privilege

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44. That's not even true in regard to class alone

To pretend people making $200-$400k a year are not privileged is absurd. That's not even counting the majority of Americans who aren't white and male, and subject to this sort of thing: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017336519
voter disenfranchisement, and laws regarding racism, all ignored by your post, as though no one else even matters.

The 99% construction enables the upper-middle class to pretend they are exploited. They are not. There is as much if not more difference between the lower 10 percent and the upper 89-99% as between the upper-middle class and the wealthy. I've lived at the bottom of that spectrum and near the 50 percent mark, and the difference is tremendous. Whether one has food or housing makes a far bigger difference than if they have four or six bathrooms.


The Bernie or Bush argument also shows that policy is completely irrelevant, and they don't even care about seeing Citizens United overturned. For those who go so far as to argue that Trump is better, they demonstrate in now uncertain terms that the one thing they care about is maintaining and regaining privilege.