General Discussion

And I share those priorities. That's one of the reasons I opposed most of the recent trade deals-they left the downtrodden out in the cold

One of our big problems is that we haven't offered policies that brought the poor to the polls.

We need to be the party of the voices from below, we need to be for humanity before greed, to turn those nonvoters into voters.

And to my knowledge, nobody on the left has argued for policies that leave the poor, the hungry, the homeless, or the sick out in the cold in order to win "the middle class". At most, there has been an argument that working-class voters(NOT the middle-class)be part of the equation. Some of those working-class voters are white, but does it harm anything to admit that some people who happen to be white could have common needs with people in the other groups? Do we have to ditch New Deal values to avoid being bigots?

Can't we have New Deal values without white supremacy?

Why is there this implication that we somehow have to choose between social justice and economic justice-that we can't have both?

Or that economic justice would be whites-only?