2016 Postmortem

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What, exactly, are you saying? The analogy you set up in the OP was intended to set up a situation in which, as you saw it, white leftists were being treated in the way you believe Bernie and his supporters have treated PoC.

The analogy doesn't work because we would get totally behind a candidate and a campaign like that...and a lot of us did when we backed Jesse Jackson(especially in 1988, when he got widespread white left support and Bernie's endorsement).

And you may not be settled on a candidate, but you do appear to be settled on a candidate to relentlessly attack. Why do you give Bernie's campaign so much grief when you've said nothing, for example, about HRC's involvement in building the Democratic Leadership Council, a group that was formed largely to distance the Democratic Party from PoC issues and concerns(and to push the party towards a "law and order/tough on crime" position, when, having lived life, you know perfectly what "law and order/tough on crime" are code phrases for? Why are the text of Bernie's early stump speeches and the stops on his early campaign itinerary a greater crime than that? Or O'Malley's complete indifference to police violence as mayor of Baltimore?

You could make a legitimate case that all of the candidates need to work harder on PoC issues...yet, even though you haven't settled on a candidate, you give all of them except Bernie Sanders a pass. And you've never really said why.

Please do.

Nobody disagrees with you on the crucial need to keep fighting against institutional racism. It's just that some of us see that that isn't the only form of oppression out there.