2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: From a Bernie supporter to everyone who isn't one: [View all]nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)seen similar statements here and it's unsurprising b/c one of the promises of Clintonianism is the professional class would be feted while the rest could suffer b/c their work was done in "dirty industry." I remember being duped by this thinking back in the 90s b/c the environment was my #1 issue. Yay, finally we'd move into an "information" economy and dump all that "dirty" industrial pollution.
but what that really looks like is dumping jobs of American workers overseas. and now we're faced with those same people folks i went to school with being treated like racist garbage b/c they're "white working class" who can't make ends meet and are ready for something (anything) to change that. i'm sick to death of the code-switching from class to identity politics. just b/c someone belongs to a certain race shouldn't discount their experience as being lost in this economy. Here's a decent article that deals with the disingenuousness of the Clintonian position: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/white-workers-bernie-sanders-clinton-primary-racism/
this is how Brock & Co use the "only whites like Bernie" trope to dismiss real concerns of real people who are falling so far behind they're killing themselves.
and i can't help but feel some guilt about this. you'd be hard-pressed to find a more ardent Clinton support than I was throughout the entirety of the first Clinton admin.