Bernie Sanders lambasts 'absolute failure' of Democratic party's strategy

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57. American workers are exponentially more affluent than most around the world

but that is about to change.

No one here gives a shit about globalization. If they did, we wouldn't see continually comments about how the fifties to seventies were so much better, when that was a period when the US dominated global trade enforced through military empire and regime change. The concern is not globalization or neoliberalism but the decline of American empire. That is made clear by its timing. The days we see hearkened back to were when prosperity for the white, male-dominated bourgeoisie was made possible by US empire--a period when the US government overthrew democratically elected governments (eg. Chile, Guatemala, Iran, and countless more) and sanctioned genocide in order to secure natural resources .

It's a nationalist ideology that focuses elusively on the benefits to one class, gender and race in American society while ignoring the global atrocities and domestic inequality that made their prosperity possible.