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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)He has a perfect voting record on feminist issues.
HRC, on the other hand, helped form the DLC, a group which was devoted to excluding feminists, poc, LGBTQ people(and labor, who are represented within all of the other groups, since people in all of those groups work for a living) from having any real say in the Democratic Party and what it stood for in the Nineties. Thanks to her, the first Clinton Administration fought mainly for the wishes of the male-dominated corporate sector(that's what being a 'pro-business Democrat" means-being a Republican) and bitter Southern white men who hated the Sixties and still wanted to slap women, poc, and the poor back down "in their place".
As a senator in the Bush era, she was bland, quiet and centrist on all social issues-never seriously fighting the Bush agenda on those or any other issues(she should have been pushing the party to filibuster every piece of anti-choice legislation Bush introduced, but she never did).
In 2008, her "I'm one of you" slogan in West Virginia and other white resentment states meant she couldn't have been anything other than a white backlash president if elected(and that she wouldn't have done much of anything to protect choice, since white Southerners wanted it taken away and she only cared about them).
So tell me, Nance...why does Bernie have to prove anything about himself when you give HRC a pass on all of that just because of her gender? Why should she get any more of the benefit of the doubt on any anti-oppression issues than he does?