"Once you get off of the social issues abortion, gay rights, guns and into the economic issues,"

[Vesper]

40. So we need to focus on medicare and social security and basic economics

while the right wing attack our basic human rights?

How do social security (which helps those over 65) and medicare (which is for the same population and which doesn't even cover half of the medical expenses of the over 65), affect pay equality (they're based on payroll taxes, get paid less, get less coverage later in life)? How do they protect you or your 12 year old from being shot by the police or people motivated by their "economic issues" who think your dark skin and funny accent makes you a target?

How does focusing on these programs address people like Mello who seek to prevent you from accessing medical care via telemedicine, or access to abortion, even when the pregnancy you wanted proved to be non-viable at your amnio at 20 weeks? How does that help us as a party to focus only on old people while ignoring all the massive inequality that the non-white, non-male portion of the citizenry have to deal with on a regular basis. If we wanted to belong to a party that will ignore us, and seek to harm us and tell us it's all our fault for not keeping our legs together or because we were acting funny etc. we'd join the GOP.

The Dems lost key votes because people kept telling them that vague shouts were policy, that their ignorance of how elections work was justified by screaming about "rigging", fostering anger and hate towards a party and a candidate by echoing right wing smears fed to them by foreign entities masquerading as news. Call a spade a spade.

There is a lot wrong with forgetting that things like reproductive justice, race and gender issues are somehow NOT an integral part of economic issues. Gay marriage is legal now because of progressives, liberals and DEMOCRATS who have been fighting for decades, my marching and taking each painful step, by recognizing that state's rights don't trump the rights of citizens to have their legal marriage recognized federally. We're still fighting the daily attacks on abortion access, the literal war zone that Planned Parenthood clinics are, and the brave doctors, nurses and clinic personnel who risk their lives and that of their families ever single day to provide care to poor men and women in their own neighborhoods.

Apparently the silence of the MSM has lulled some into complacency, there are bills being introduced on a daily basis that seek to harm women, endanger doctors, deny access to care. DAILY. We're not going to wait "until a bill is passed" so that we can pay attention to it AFTER THE FACT. AFTER they pass bills to delay care, to make the murder of doctors a justifiable homicide, after they kill women like Savita Hallapanavar (a woman denied necessary abortion care who died as a result of an overwhelming infection that was 100% preventable).

The Democratic Party has not gone above and beyond anything, marginalizing women, LGBTQ, and minority communities saying this condescending and asinine thing is ludicrous.

We're already fighting off an enormous attack on women, on minorities, on the LGBTQ, we're focused like an arrow on things that affect us, not just the senior citizen crowd who don't give a flying fig about what's happening to the rest of us.

I'm thankful that people who believe this are in the minority and will not be relegating us to the Handmaid's Tale section while they pretend that issues that affect women and minorities need to take a back seat to old people stuff, as if that's not all based on the issues some would like us to ignore.