Race and the Impossibility of Solidarity

As I see it the United States doesn't have a European styled social democracy like every other advanced country not because of "the banks, the 1%, the oligarchy, or the establishment" but because of systemic racism - or more accurately, American white supremacy. The American experience has shown repeatedly - whether the implementation of social security, public schools, housing codes, the building of highways, the criminal justice system, voting rights, etc. - that government will be structured to confer benefits on whites and build barriers against receiving benefits, or worse in many instances, conferring outright oppression to POC.

Post election update: Despite running on an increase of minimum wage, massive aid for college loans for low income students, protection and expansion of ACA, tax structure that massively aided middle and low-income workers and families, paid leave for parents, affordable child-care etc. etc. We get this:

This election hammers home once again that in America to be conservative is to be offended whenever someone believed to be inferior is treated as an equal.