History Lesson For a Young Sanders Supporter

[72DejaVu]

I am one of those "over 65" women who belong to the faceless, aging "demographic" with a Hillary sign on my front lawn. For weeks I've listened, fists clenched, while 19-year-olds and media pundits alike lavish praise on Bernie Sanders for his bold, revolutionary message and scorn Hillary for being "establishment."

He is "heart" and she is "head"--a bitter irony for those of us familiar with the long history of philosophical, religious, and medical diatribes disqualifying women from leadership positions on the basis of our less-disciplined emotions.

He is "authentic" in his progressivism while she has only been pushed to the left by political expediency--as though a lifetime of fighting for universal healthcare, for gender equality, for children's rights don't pass the litmus tests for "progressive" causes. He is the champion of the working class while her long-standing commitments to child care, paid sick leave, the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, and narrowing the wage-gap between working men and women are apparently evaporated by her accepting highly-paid invitations to speak at Goldman-Sachs.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-bordo-/history-lesson-for-a-youn_b_9168076.html

[Little Star]

1. k&r

[stonecutter357]

2. K&R!

[Gman]

3. These kids are being played like fiddles by the right wing

the media and their corporate enablers. And they're too edging stupid to know any better.

[Little Star]

5. Sad but true.

[brer cat]

8. They are no different than

many of us were at the same age. Youth, passion, and idealism go together, and you are wrong to write them off as "stupid." It is not unusual for young people to reject the status quo, and enthusiastically embrace socialism or some form of not-my-parents' politics. I am a Hillary supporter so I hope they will learn more about her and realize what a gifted person she is, how hard she has worked to make this a better world. But they won't learn anything useful from someone treating them as lacking intelligence.

[NastyRiffraff]

4. Bravo!

And, K&R!

[Thinkingabout]

6. All of the crap they have thrown at Hillary, they can't shake her

Ability to be president, she is truly the most qualified candidate running. Also, throwing insults and smears at Hillary does not give the other candidates more ability to be president. She has worked hard to help others and she will continue to work hard. She is not throwing ideas out which can not be accomplished, concerned about wage inequality, education, healthcare, jobs, higher wages and many other issues.

[pandr32]

7. 100% right!

It is funny, too when you find out that her Goldman Sachs speaking engagement was to speak about encouraging and supporting women entrepreneurs and shattering that old business glass ceiling. Not much of a pay for play deal here.
I am all for her releasing the "10,000 Women..." video of that speaking engagement as a campaign ad.

[Floridanow]

9. Her team should cut an ad from the speech.

If Sanders can make dark insinuations about Clinton's Goldman Sachs speech, she should hit him across the head with it's contents. Imagine, Clinton was trying to pave the way for bright businesswomen to get business funding long held from them. I wonder what the Sanders "I don't trust her" crowd will act. Fortunately for Clinton her Calvary has just rounded the last bend and will push back the Sanders crowd in South Carolina and Nevada.

[pandr32]

11. Agreed!

[Cha]

10. If he's so "authentic" why do stories like this keep cropping up?

Sanders Scored Over Use of Photos

Lebanon — With just days before the New Hampshire primary, the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., is taking heat from Upper Valley residents who say his campaign used their images on mailers without their permission.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=42773