And Democrats such as Clinton need to speak out more against plutocracy.

It's not a matter of suggesting Clinton's campaign was flawless or that Sanders is a bad person. It's a matter of Sanders and some of his supporters not grasping that the economic conditions we all decry are enabled by bigotry, particular racism. And it's Republicans who engage in so-called identity politics.

In the GD forum, someone posted an article from Salon containing this excerpt:



That's backward, and perhaps it's a product of living in the whitest state in the US. Again, the economic conditions we decry are enabled by those entrenched beliefs and attitudes. As forjusticethunders wrote in another thread, "Racism crippled the power of the working class movement as white workers found that the psychological wage was better than the material wage."

The Salon article points out that a majority of Americans agree with Bernie's stance on various economic issues. But that doesn't matter as long as the psychological wage (feeling superior to and more deserving than 'the other') remains paramount. Strategically diminishing racism is key to sustainable progress. A massive multiracial alliance will threaten the ruling class more than anything else I can think of.

Yes, the primary is long over, but there are lessons still to be learned. Far too many "progressives" have lost sight of just how crucial anti-racism is. It isn't enough to be a non-racist. The "working class whites/economic messaging" narrative is not only false (when you consider which candidate won among the working class overall), but it's also a dog whistle narrative that needs to be replaced, not propped up.

Lastly, consider the following 3 articles on the importance of anti-racism to the labor movement then and now:

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19038/unions-labor-black-lives-matter-anti-racist-racial-justice

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Other-News/Unions-Must-Address-Racism

http://www.workers.org/2016/02/11/how-black-workers-were-decimated-by-racism/#.WHiHrUQS88o