Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

OPs and posts in the last month claiming "It'll be like 1972 again!" the sky is falling unless people support her rather than Sanders. Given this merchandise dates from the 1990s, that's pretty pale time wise. Although I still have lapel pins of Clinton's saxophone and Carter's peanut, if I had seen or known about this Clinton-Gore Dixie memorabilia which I have no reason to believe is unauthentic, it would have been troubling as it is now. The same for the black members of my family, one who almost worked in the Clinton administration.

There's growing mention now how blacks and minorities are longtime, steadfast supporters of the Clintons for their work on global poverty issues and other efforts. When president, drug penalties increased, incarceration rates grew and privatized, corporate for profit prisons expanded under Clinton which is an important matter. Michelle Alexander's substantial work published in 2010, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" is a stunning revelation about a catastrophic situation in the US, the dramatic rise in the number of people of color incarcerated in the last 20 years, a new study that has been widely viewed.