We can fight vote suppression, Russian electoral interference & institutional bigotry...

[Ken Burch]

4. The answer is to about race AND class...not to just not mention class.

talking about class doesn't have to conflict with opposing racism.

With Bernie, it was mainly a communications issue...there was no actual difference between Bernie and Hillary on the commitment to fighting racism...it's just that he didn't include the anti-racist agenda prominently enough in his speeches and ads.

And Jerry Brown and Howard Dean didn't lose because they talked about "class&quot Dean was more a supposedly antiwar candidate than a class struggle guy-in '92, Tom Harkin was the closes thing to a "class struggle" candidate, and he lost largely because the media declared him too grumpy to be president). Brown had also had a problematic relationship with the progressive wing of the party, since he ran against THEM as often as he challenged the right on anything.

Both Brown and Dean were running against frontrunners who had established overwhelming leads from the start. Brown's big issue was, of all things, replacing the income tax with a flat tax (something most Democrats of any stripe are against). Neither Brown NOR Dean offered a critique of the role corporate power plays in politics and neither supported any proposals that were significantly egalitarian or redistributive.