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In reply to the discussion: It tells us nothing at this point that HRC beats Bernie among women and poc. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And he has the only proposals of any candidate that would help poor people(HRC doesn't mention them at all), a group divided equally among many races, all genders, and all sexual orientations.
You have no reason whatsoever to think that Bernie is going to leave you out in the cold. You have a lot of reason to think that of HRC...because she helped found the DLC, a group DEDICATED to leaving you out in the cold.
And again, since the guy has had a perfect anti-oppression voting record throughout his career, why would you even think he'd suddenly start not caring about oppression once he became president?
And I do straight talk, too. I've never lied to you...have never disrespected you...have never said that what you care about doesn't matter. And other than a handful of anti-social types(we are on the internet, y'know) almost nobody who backs Bernie has said that bigotry and oppression doesn't matter, OR that achieving economic inequality would end bigotry. Obviously, we'd still have to fight it. But it would get a lot easier to fight on some fronts, since the kinds of bigotry driven by hard times and scarcity would diminish greatly. The police would still need to be stood up to, gaybashers would still need to be stood up to, racism would still need to be fought where it lingered...and economic justice advocates will be right there fighting those battles with you, just as they always have been. Economic and social justice are not exactly the same...but they do overlap, and people of good will do care about fighting both.
Give us all a chance. We have much more in agreement than not, even if people do sometimes need to be challenged.