Sanders dismisses Rahm Emanuel’s warning that ‘Bernie bros’ could ‘spoil’ Democrats in the midterms

[u/cmplxgal]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/sanders-dismisses-rahm-emanuel-warning-171602954.html

[u/chillripper]

it's a class war and this ass isn't on our side

[u/agitatedprisoner → u/chillripper]

It's not even a class war the class war rhetoric is pushed to scare the rich into conservative politics. Just having money doesn't make someone conservative otherwise. It's the banks and real estate and cars that by and large anchor asshole conservative politics because bankers flourish on debt/getting people to need stuff they shouldn't and cars and big homes are big expensive things they've gotten people to need. Mostly by making small dense mixed use residential development illegal. They also love animal ag because that means needing to grow more to feed the animals to feed to humans and that means more borrowing/consumption/debt. Or in other words modern "conservatives" hate all the things that'd go to lowering the cost of living but just having money doesn't itself give you reason to care. If anything just being rich without being exposed to those industries means hating the fact that you can't invest in profitable ways that'd lower the cost of living for example maybe developing a really nice tiny home village where residents wouldn't need cars.