Democratic Primaries

IMO, the reason Bernie hasn’t dropped out already is because part of his hind-brain hasn’t shifted with the times.

I’m 64, Bernie is 78. When I grew up, American politicians, or at least Democratic politicians, assumed that in the end, if they wanted office, most of their voters were going to be white.

True, supporting minorities and attending to their interests was important, but in the end most of the voters that would put you over the top are going to be white folks. For certain Blue states and many Blue districts, this is still true.

However, there have been tectonic shifts in other parts of the political landscape. Not only are certain districts primarily non-white, but major metro areas and certain western states are trending towards a situation where white voters (Or at least Democratic White voters) are only a plurality, and you have to politic as hard with the others (AA’s, Latinos, Asian-Americans, etc) as you do with the white part of the base of support.

I don’t think Bernie Sanders ever really got this. I’m not sure that Good Old Joe has fully gotten this either, but on the other hand I think he got it better than Bernie and may be learning it well enough to beat Donald Trump and his coalition of reactionaries and racists.