"Elite" the insult, a word that now means its opposite

[Caliman73]

13. Democrats can and DO talk to the White working class and the rest of the working people.

What we try not to do is coddle fantasy. The bottom line is that coal is a dirty fuel that is helping to make the environment difficult for human survival, we can't save your coal job, but we want to help you find a new job in a field that is sustainable. That requires training and may take awhile.

The problem is that Republicans come along and block legislation designed to implement the shift to renewable energy, to infrastructure spending, to retraining efforts to help Americans get future jobs, then they convince those same people that they have hurt, that it was the Democrats who did it by putting "regulations" on things.

Sanders was plain wrong about the attribution of the problem. To be sure, there are valid criticisms about the Democratic party, but oversimplification has been Bernie's Achilles Heel.