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Originally Posted by bobman0330
I think you're not an American, so maybe some local color will help you interpret this. Donald Trump recently won our elections for president. (FYI in our country, president is not a largely ceremonial position but actually wields an enormous amount of power.) What's more, Trump won the elections despite making a number of openly racist statements, endorsing various extremist policies and having exposed a number of shocking lapses of personal character. Many people view Trump as one of the worst and most dangerous major party candidates for president in many decades.
What strikes some American observers as astonishing about Bernie's statement is that, in the wake of this stunning and devastating victory for Trump, Bernie (who is notionally a political ally of Hillary Clinton, the losing candidate in this week's election) would essentially endorse Trump's voters on their analysis of the main issues in language that parrots key lines of attack that Trump used against Clinton during the campaign.
Maybe if you were not a Yank and a bit more aware of politics in the rest of the world, you would understand that establishment stiffs the working guy is a pretty good summary of left wing thinking and socialism in general.
Its narrative that has belonged to the left for years and years, Trump might have appropriated it, but god forbid Bernie explain the election in terms relevant to his ideological grounding.
Indeed Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the the Labour party, the opposition party in the UK (insert patronising waffle here) framed his explanation in very similar terms:
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His victory is an unmistakable rejection of a system that simply isn’t working for most people.
It has given us escalating inequality and falling living standards. In both the United States and Britain too many people have been left behind.
In the US and Britain many people have been left behind
In both countries, people feel angry that their communities have been abandoned, at the lack of investment and job opportunities for young people. It’s a message we’ve got to heed.
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Because he is ideologically grounded in a similar left of centre way to Bernie and the language used is not some astonishing endorsement of Trump voters but simply the expected and normal way a left of centre perspective is going to frame Trumps victory.
God knows why you chose to be such a douche bag in your reply to me, internet gonna internet.