General Discussion

which is a distraction from the most important thing, economic class, the last time a woman was the Democratic nominee for president.

Now directed at Harris:: "I think she has to start talking about issues of relevance to the working class of this country ,..." but without the "identity politics" mention because it's not popular anymore.

No Democrats run on gender/race identity and ignore economics, the whole point of the Democratic Party is improving the lives of working/middle class people as it has always done. Trump made the election about identity in 2016 and he'll do it this time too. The white working class did not vote for Trump because of "economic anxiety" caused by Democrats ignoring them. That was never real.

The "struggle" that did not exist:

"But it's not good enough to say, 'Hey, I'm a Latina, vote for me.' ... It's not good enough for me to say, 'Okay, we have x number of African Americans over here, y number of Latinos, z number of women. ... It is not good enough to for someone to say, 'I'm a woman, vote for me!' No, that's not good enough. What we need is a woman who has the guts to stand up to Wall Street, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies, to the fossil fuel industry. One of the struggles you're going to be seeing in the Democratic Party is whether we go beyond identity politics."

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/21/13699956/sanders-clinton-democratic-party

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/23/13715164/bernie-sanders-identity-politics--democrats-progressives