“Who sucked all the Positivity out of the Democratic Party“, by LisaB, No Quarter:
I agree class is the bigger problem here. But the Obama campaign deliberately chooses to frame the class problem as a racial one. The fact that a Hawaiian who attended Columbia and Harvard thinks he can play himself as just another beset upon guy from the ‘hood is ridiculous on the face of it. However, calling people who don’t buy that fiction “racist” is galling.Add that to a party deliberately choosing to use a caucus system where the voices of a few outweigh the many to get a certain kind of candidate and a candidate willing to bus people in to game the Caucasus, and you’ve got a recipe for elitism. Both the party and the candidate reflect elitist themes now.
And here’s some music to accompany LisaB’s post:
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