2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: We are the base of the party. The POC, the LGBT, the feminists. [View all]Bohemianwriter
(978 posts)Hillary and Bill has disenfranchised since the 90's.
Did you support Hillary when she was against same sex marriage? Did you support Bill Clinton's DOMA?
Were you with Hillary and her super predator remarks in the 90's kick starting the deeply racist policies that targeted black kids rther than solving the problems that prohibition and cutting programs that would benefit these black kids?
Does the feminists support Hillary's stand on abortion where she is against a woman's right to choose after 20 weeks?
Does the "base" support TPP, secret trade deals, fracking, voter suppression, rigged elections a skewed mass media, bombing brown kids in the Middle East, labeling Palestinian kids as terrorists or deporting minors who have fled the military juntas and the death squads propped up by USA since the 60's?
The truth is that Bernie Sanders embodies the antithesis to all these policies. he has pushed for gay rights since the 90s.
He has been arrested for his civil rights activism.
He has stood with the AA caucus since he stepped foot in Congress.
Hillary embodies none of these ideals, and only parrots them to play identity politics.
There is no point in belittling Bernie Sanders and elevating Hillary to a position or reverence she does not deserve.
There is no point in smearing or lyingh about the most progressive senator to protect a corrupt politican who listens more to a white CIS gender man with lot's of money than an LGBT person who have suffered due to the Clinton's policies since the 90's. Hillary only came on board in 2010. So there is no point in giving Hillary undeserved credit, and belittling Bernieæs stauchn support of the LGBT community. To me it seems that some people want to play identiy polkitics to throw the only consistent ally you have in the race.
And Hillary supporters have proven the last few days that their tent does not have room for REAL progressives, but lot's of room for criminal bankers and war profiteers.
The way people are getting swayed by cheap talking points cheer cheap shots and join the bandwagon who have lied and belittled Bernie Sanders since day one unless they have a media blackout against him.
If Bernie Sanders played anything like Hillary, he could use his Jewish roots as a clutch to play identity politics, painting Hillary as a thinly disguised anti-Semtie despite her support of Israel's repeated violations of the Geneva convention. He could have gone out and painted Hillary as a Goldwater girl with close ideological ties to her deeply racist father and how she has made money in selling black kids into slaves for the private prison plantations.
Why did he not do that?
Because unlike Hillary, he doesn't divide people into groups to conquer them.
When he speak, he says "we are all in this together".
When Hillary speaks, she say "I have fought, I am being smeared, and I will do everything. Just trust me, sit back and relax and see Super Hillary in action, working "together" with the opposition, imposing policies that directly contradicts every single progressive value I can think of. It's all about Hillary and not about the voter. It's only about the voter if she can pander to them.
I wonder why LGBT Hillary supporters fail to see that.