Out of curiosity, who is "telling minorities to wait"? If we're talking about Sanders position on the issue you reference,
statements from him on it are readily available. Or are you mixing up that Colin Jost SNL joke (or that Mark Lilla guy writing for the NY Times) and assuming that it represents some large mass of people on the left? I mean, I'm sure somebody is saying it, but I tend to see it from the old centrist/Democratic Third Way/DLC types from the 90's (the type of people that Democrats in power have pandered to for years and of course have a long history of taking certain groups for granted and not addressing their issues until their forced to by grassroots movements), not from leftists.
Yes, I understand his statements on the issue. I also understand that Bernie Sanders spends far more time talking about economic issues first and foremost. I also understand that Bernie Sanders slammed Identity Politics. I also understand that Bernie Sanders really tried to avoid having that discussion in his Town Hall with Trump supporters.
He doesn't need to directly state it, for people to know what he is inferring.
As for the Third Way folks: They were the ones responsible for making this a Civil Rights friendly platform. I'm not going to blame them for actually trying. I'm not going to blame them for listening. I'm going to blame the Sanders folks who took their ball and went home.
What I do see more often nowadays is pointing out people who abuse and manipulate identity politics to in order to still support policies that end up harming those identities that people claim to care about. That seems pretty common on the left, but that's quite a bit different than saying "minorities need to wait" (never mind that there are plenty of minorities who, shocking news, do care about economic issues, and there are plenty of ways that oppression manifests itself economically that people would like to be solved)
Sure, can you name people who abuse and manipulate identity politics in order to support policies that people claim to care about? Only name that really comes to mind is Tulsi Gabbard.
As for economic issues, people knew what the Dems stood for:
-Higher Minimum Wage.
-Keep ACA.
-History of not being the party who rolls back labor reforms.
The white working class showed their true colors in this election. You already had a platform designed to help them. They didn't take the bait. They voted for no free trade. They voted for white nationalism.
Now, you want to double down on economic issues. Keep them first and foremost. To me, that means something else needs to be shoved to the side. That's identity politics. That's civil rights.
That shouldn't happen. The fight for civil rights needs to be stronger than ever now. It should still be first and foremost. Economic issues can take a back seat with the fact that the unemployment rate is below 5%.
Oh and spare me the talk about devoting equal time. I'll believe it when I see it.
