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In reply to the discussion: Sanders tanked Clinton. [View all]BainsBane
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Starting with the position of outreach leader and followed by Schumer's and Perez's giving people a platform to attack the party. I fault Perez for giving Nomiki Konst a position on the "unity" commission to push her segregationist voter disenfranchisement efforts. I object to not including reproductive rights in the recent slate of priorities, all to capitulate to an undercurrent that opposes equal rights.
I also object to allowing truly reprehensible policies and votes to go unchallenged: eg. Environmental racism and multiple votes against closing Gitmo. I object to the very strong tendency to elevate men of power over the citizens, to elevate multi-millionaire media personalities over workers, the poor, and voting rights. I object to efforts to roll back civil rights and reproductive rights, to hypocrisy and double standards, and to an effort to center the party around white male privilege at the expense of the rights and survival of the majority. In short, I object to the politics of bourgeois entitlement.