2016 Postmortem

...what I wrote in my last post. Racism is the primary tool enabling the economic conditions (the economic inequality, corporate power, decimation of unions, etc.) you rightly decry.

Let me put things another way: absent racism, the Republican Party would cease to be a viable institution. The vision of progressive economics could then be realized.

Of course racism (neither the overt nor the softer kind referred to in post #9) isn't going to be eliminated completely, but a multiracial alliance threatens the ruling class more than anything I can think of. Building such an alliance is paramount to sustainable progress. Recognizing the primacy of bigotry, particularly racism, is the first step toward a solution. Otherwise, we're stuck riding the pendulum. Power will go back and forth at the federal level, while Democrats continue to get dominated at the state and local level.

That some view threads like this as an attack on white people is sad but only serves to reinforce the point forjusticethunder so eloquently made.