Bernie Sanders and Cardi B

Allow me to be the wet blanket that falls over the whole ‘Bernie Sanders shouts out Cardi B’ thing.

1. Bernie subtweeting Cardi B is a major Hillary ‘I keep hot sauce in my bag’ Clinton form of pandering.

But most importantly,

2. People who’s people haven’t been affected by the policies of elected people who are clearly their people tend to rationalize away the policies of elected people like them who overall tend to endorse and progress their particular worldview but also endorse and progress policies that hinder the advancement of people who clearly aren’t their people. 

Specifically, in the case of Bernie cynically attempting to cash in on Cardi B’s praise of FDR, I say this:

First of all, FDR was The Godfather of redlining. Secondly, the people who’s opinion of FDR that I most value are Japanese Americans. Who cares about social security for white Americans when Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps?