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24. Bernie isn't the official voice of the white working class either

but that doesn't stop people from taking his statements as infallible. In the aftermath of the GE, Bernie renewed previous statements about the white working class, not in response to data about the election but in spite of it. http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2014/11/19/365024592/sen-bernie-sanders-on-how-democrats-lost-white-voters

The fact is Clinton won voters earning under $75k and Trump all income brackets over $100k. Clinton's greatest margin was among voters earning less than $30k. Bernie may prefer higher income white male voters since they tend to support him more than lower income voters, but to rhetorically define people of color and women--the great majority of voters with incomes below the national mean--out of the working class is false. Exit poll data also show Clinton won voters who identified the economy as their primary concern. Post-election surveys show that even Republicans who greatly benefited from the Obama economic recovery refuse to grant Democrats credit for any of it, but they now rate the economy as performing better simply because a Republican has been elected. That is not something that be combated with different messaging.

The voters neither you nor Bernie pay attention to are the millions of people of color disenfranchised from this past election. When Perez was at DOJ, he led the civil rights division in charge of enforcing voting rights, and DOJ was active during his tenure. (Lynch seemingly did not continue Holder's focus on civil rights). He has said voter disenfranchisement would be a key focus of his tenure as DNC chair, should be be elected. For you to dismiss that as the same as DWS is malicious. That combined with not knowing Ellison's name tells me you haven't even researched the various candidates but nonetheless feel compelled to trash a man who has worked for labor and voting rights.

I ask about a contradiction in priorities, and you accuse me of attacking Bernie and "Emerson" because for you politics is all about absolutely fealty to a member of the political elite. You won't face a clear contradiction because to do so would require dealing with the fact that there is nothing you won't contort or justify to promote one man's career. I find that a sadly small way of looking at politics.