The White Entitlement Of Some Sanders Supporters

[sufrommich]

“Killary Clinton is stealing the nomination and the system is rigged against Bernie Sanders,” said the two young white guys standing behind me in line. They rambled incessantly about how she was cheating and could not be trusted. Superdelegates were their greatest frustration. Unelected delegates who could “decide” the nomination proved that the process was a sham that was intentionally set up to prevent Sanders from winning.

At first I tried to ignore the conversation and thought they were Trump supporters (“Killary” is usually a right-wing thing). But once it became clear that these guys were Sanders supporters, I had to jump in. For years, these guys had been “my people.” I have been a fan of Sanders long before his presidential run and have made many friends due to our mutual admiration of his policies. Surely, I’d be able to have a civil, rational conversation with these guys, right?

When, I chimed in it was evident that we were speaking different languages. We agreed on most of the substantive policy issues, and I told them how I even interned for Sanders about a decade ago. We should have been able to see eye to eye, but we could not. The main source of their frustration was merely the fact that they had lost. The fact that she is ahead in the popular vote, has won more primaries and caucuses, and has earned more delegates was to them a minor nuisance. They had their absurd talking points and were unwilling to deviate into reality.

The more I reflected on them, the more I realized the key point: They felt entitled to win, and a defeat meant that someone must have cheated or that their opinions did not matter, which of course couldn’t be true. They preferred to suspend reality and fabricate injustices rather than concede that Sanders has lost fair and square.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/05/the-white-entitlement-of-some-sanders-supporters.html

[Trust Buster]

1. The more one moves from the political center in either direction, the more their relative measures

of narcissism increases. Your friends very much feel entitled. They can't be wrong in their minds. They think that they're false sense of entitlement should mean that the minority should rule over the majority. You followed Sanders for all the right reasons. They follow Sanders and make such foolish claims to compensate for their insecurities. I see this on the far Right all the time.

[sufrommich]

2. There are some remarkable similarities between the two extremes.

The uncritical belief in conspiracies is another one.

[Trust Buster]

6. The temperaments of the two extremes are identical. This is because, with these narcissistic

personalities, it's the personality that leads to the policy instead of the policy attracting the personality.

[SidDithers]

3. "They felt entitled to win"...

that's it exactly.

Thanks for posting.

Sid

[PufPuf23]

76. The projection is awe inspiring. eom.

[shawn703]

4. Or it could be we like the candidate further to the left

I'm sure it was "white entitlement" that caused Hillary to lose to Obama in '08 rather than people just wanting to support the candidate further to the left.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. It's just one person's opinion

At The Daily Beast. Just as you have an opinion.

I served on the jury for the op a few minutes ago and voted to leave it.

This is why. . . Your post.

Discussion is necessary - not censorship of ideas and opinions.

I may not agree with you - but I applaud you for addressing the issue instead of trying to pretend the opinion doesn't exist and the article was never published at The Daily Beast.

[rjsquirrel]

13. At the time

it was Clinton supporters (PUMAs) acting like whiny white privileged jerks.

Worked out real good for them huh?

8 years later, stir in some misogyny and campus left naïveté and vanguardism and those same white privileged elements animate the Sanders die hards.

It's been obvious to some of us all along that the Sanders campaign (I used to exempt Sanders himself, but no longer) is fueled by white privileged and supercharged by misogyny. If y'all were facing Obama (who was hardly "left" in the same way Sanders is and who favored a smarter but still neoconservative foreign policy -- don't you guys hate him now anyway?) you'd be doing the same foot dragging whiny dance.

This isn't about who's more "left" anymore. Some of us recognize America is a diverse country and that Hillary's liberal centrism captures a much wider swath of American public opinion.

Some of us includes 3 million more actual democratic primary voters. So there's that.

[shawn703]

22. So the PUMAs who adored Hillary last time

are now people who decided they can't stand her this time, because white entitlement?

[rjsquirrel]

32. I suspect many of them are now

Sanders supporters.

A certain type gets off on remaining perpetually angry and outraged. They will attach to whichever campaign appeals to their contrarianism.

Of course since many PUMAs were justifiably angry about the misogyny directed at HRC by Obama supporters at the time (I was an Obama supporter but this is just true, unfortunately it led many PUMAs to launch racist attacks at Obama) they are now happy to support our soon to be nominee and just as annoyed by the even worse misogyny coming from the Sanders camp.

Sore losers gonna sore lose.

[PufPuf23]

77. There are far more claims of misogyny (and sexism and racism) coming from the Clinton camp

than actually occurred within the Sanders camp.

The drum beat of negativity is a very successful political tactic amplified by cherry picking the ways we communicate.

One "knows" there is misogyny (and sexism and racism) from Sanders without ever listening to Sanders or going to a Sanders event.

[rjsquirrel]

79. It's not about particular episodes or events

It's a constant tone of misogyny, right from the start, in language about "coronations" and "Hillary the queen" just for a start.

She has been attacked and demeaned in ways no male politician is, for decades now, and Sanders supporters have kept it up.

And then there's the awful and overtly sexist language used against women in the party establishment, DWS and Barbara Boxer to name just two.

It's not dissimilar to the implicit racism of remarks about how (heavily black) dem primary voters in the "deep south" don't count as much as (or are less well informed than) white voters in the mountain west, or a certain tone deafness to civil rights issues that can't be linked to income inequality.

If you don't see it, you're part of the problem. My wife started out considering Bernie (and I started out supporting him). Now she finds his campaign so blatantly misogynist in tone she has turned completely against Bernie (as have I, for this and other reasons including having a few daughters).

[PufPuf23]

80. I never denied that misogyny (and sexism and racism) exist but that it is rare in Sanders campaign

and identified by confirmation bias and cherry picked and amplified to further what I already said.

My point was that Clinton et al repeat these smears daily based upon rare or non-existent events or where similar events are in Clinton's campaign or history.

The constant tone is not from Sanders or his campaign but from those that use the media to label Sanders as such.

The same things could be said of the Hillary Clinton side of the equation. I never said Sanders et al are perfect. What I do say is that misogyny (and sexism and racism) are not the soul of Sanders or his supporters. Politics can be all about false attribution and the Hillary Clinton campaigns in 2008 and 2016 are prime examples. You can not see it because you would have to face somethin g unpleasant about yourself and people like you. I am not saying both sides don't use this technique, it is common in politics.

I always use the term Hillary Clinton then followed by Clinton when writing and never identify a pol by first name nor smear name.

I have called Hillary Clinton a neo-liberal and a neo-conservative because Clinton supports those economical and political methods and philosophies.

Once I had a post hidden because I did call Hillary Clinton a psychopath as the title to a post that contained the "Libya We came He died" video and also in the body said Hillary Clinton reminded me of Richard Nixon which is a true statement.

I am not part of the problem. I am sincere.

[hobbit709]

64. It's more like the people that hated Hillary in 2008 are her loudest supporters now.

[BobbyDrake]

29. Funny how when Sanders thought Obama should be primaried in 2012, he wasn't the one to step up.

Despite what we hear from the Left about Obama and Clinton both being "Republican-Lite," what made Sanders hesitate against Obama but not against Clinton?

I wonder...

[sufrommich]

16. Except that Hillary is getting the votes from

most of the groups that were the Obama coalition. It's interesting that you only recognize white college kids as Obama voters. It's also interesting that you don't acknowledge that Sanders is getting the anti Obama vote and has two prominent spokespersons who are virulently anti Obama in Sarandon and West.

[shawn703]

24. I did those things?

Where?

[pintobean]

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[sufrommich]

7. Wow.Thanks,can't imagine what's "alertable" about this article.

[DrDan]

10. 100% agree with you - I was 7

[pintobean]

15. It should have been 0-7

It was a difficult first read with the skipping wtf record playing in my head over the alert.

[Stuckinthebush]

27. I know

I guess if it offends even I'm the slightest it should be hidden. Thin skinned comes to mind.

[BobbyDrake]

30. The jury system now exists to protect Bernie Sanders supporters from other people's opinions.

Enforcing the ToS? Ha! As if.

[Stuckinthebush]

34. Been that way for a long time

But not much longer!

[uponit7771]

38. +1

[JustAnotherGen]

61. I was juror #3

[NurseJackie]

8. Ha!

[Surya Gayatri]

11. The "extreme" qualifier applies in either direction--left or right.

Not to mention "spoiled and entitled".

[SpareribSP]

12. It's a generational divide

Under-45s in California, a fairly diverse state, are voting 66% Sanders. Also I read a while back that a majority of black people 30 and under voted for Bernie. This sort of divisive us-versus-them stuff is really ugly though, regardless.

"If you’re young, white and privileged, you don’t expect to lose. When you do, it must be because you got cheated. Blacks know better." This is a ridiculously broad-brush statement about eight ways over. It's just fanning the flames of these various conflicts. I hope this sort of post is banned later, because it's about as unifying as punching someone in the face and yelling "RIOT!"

[Blue_Adept]

17. It is a broad brush

The thing is, though, is that eight years after the last major election on our side, the social media aspect has changed significantly and there are far more voices and data points out there from which to paint with the brush.

You see far more instances of what the original author is describing now. Some of it is just plain trolling, some of it is authentic, some of it is bandwagonism.

But within it there are kernels of truth that need to be examined as opposed to hidden and ignored and denied. That's how we as a party move forward.

[SpareribSP]

36. It's still delegitimizing, though.

If you saw a young, white male who was a strong fan of Bernie Sanders, would your mind start taking shortcuts now to thinking that he's entitled, violent, sexist? This is otherizing. It sets up a narrative that allows for endless attacks. You see it all over DU.

Some questions to ask that aren't present are why Sanders was supported in the first place, and why they're so upset with Hillary now. Perhaps also some introspection as to why accusations of cheating stick to Hillary would be useful too. Not condoning it, just it's worth thinking about.

[uponit7771]

39. A majority of PoC under 30 are NOT voting for Sanders, polls before SC proved such I've

... seen no polls here recently

That's why the overwhelming vote for Sanders is white male

[SpareribSP]

70. Data was shown here

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/28/472160616/-berniemademewhite-no-bernie-sanders-isnt-just-winning-with-white-people

First, PoC doesn't mean "Black People". If you take in the votes of other minorities then my statement is obviously correct - he did very well in some minority demographics, especially with younger people.

If you're just talking about black people, I believe those numbers are still about the same now with Bernie a bit ahead, but I can't find it. Remember Erica Garner being endorsing Bernie, but her mom endorsing Hillary? Similar things are happening everywhere. There's a generational divide.

[gordianot]

14. I am sure there is some white entitlement among Sanders Supporters, however

What do you call the behavior of a former Secretary of State who essentially made her own rules places her employees in legal and ethical jeapordy and expects to skate free of any legal repercussions, criticism or even minimal responsibility?

Don't you wish you could get $250,000 a pop for who knows 30 minutes of work with the ultimate institution of white entitlement Wall Street.

[uponit7771]

45. Didn't Hillary express that she'd do different? Is Sanders expressing that He'll stop saying

... the system the long shot black guy won with in 08 is rigged against the older, white skinned, well off, heterosexual, male now?

The article is about white male privilege and it showing in the entitlement of saying the system is rigged when there's little doubt HRC whooped Sanders ass fair and square especially seeing his team OPENLY claimed they didn't compete in the "southern states"

come back

tia

[gordianot]

69. Well doing it different just clears her from any responsibility now and in the future

Looks like you accept that white privilege whole hearted with some excuses heap those privileges on just a little.

I am sure every door has been open to Mr. Sanders his entire life due to the melanin content in his skin.

[mmonk]

18. I'm sure glad a planned coronation of a white woman isn't considered white privilege.

Especially one who has represented Wall Street so well.

[sufrommich]

19. There was no "coronation". I find this meme that Hillary

behaves as a "queen" who thinks "it's her turn" to be as tone deaf as most of the other stuff coming from Sanders supporters during this election.

[LisaM]

40. So do I.

I try to ignore it, but I don't like it. Hillary works very hard, she takes nothing for granted, despite this sour narrative. I do chuckle when people misuse the word "coronate". It shows intellectual laziness.

[mmonk]

50. It's been clear from the beginning starting with debate schedules.

The party didn't want any type of real primary.

[uponit7771]

46. She won by 3 million more votes how in the hell is that a coronation!? The racial and gender ...

... establishment in America rarely want to acknowledge the accomplishments of the others

[chascarrillo]

20. "Respectfully, if that is your position, then I will only talk to white people"

[sufrommich]

21. Of course,that was a response to a BLM activist telling her that

black people aren't the problem and that she should be talking to white people about racism. Funny how you left that out.

[chascarrillo]

25. She has constantly been dismissive of BLM. She has continually engaged in racism.

But two white dudes in a bar complain about the system, and that's what's worthy of your time and words. Tells me a lot about your priorities.

[sufrommich]

26. I didn't write the article,an African-American male did.

You took a quote out of context and are now attempting to paper over it.

[Demsrule86]

31. Have you heard Bernie talk about the 'ghetto'

Honestly, it was embarrassing. He has no interest in issues that affect women or people of color.

[MrMickeysMom]

42. We know you haven't

Ignorance is bliss

[Demsrule86]

71. I have and it is you who is ignorant.

Only Black people are poor of course ...right Bernie?

"When you're white, you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto. You don't know what it's like to be poor. You don't know what it's like to be hassled when you walk down the street or you get dragged out of a car," Sanders said at the debate.

Quote by Bernie Sanders
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/bernie-sanders-attempts-clarify-ghetto-comment-n533466

[MrMickeysMom]

72. I can always count on "kindness and love" from you...

Plus, taking any meaningful conversation out of context! There's THAT, too!

[BobbyDrake]

23. Remember when to be progressive meant that you were educated? That you utilized critical thinking?

I do.

These days, though... Not so much of that going on among those who call themselves "progressive" but act more like fringe conservatives.

[Herman4747]

28. Two people (TWO PEOPLE) establish a broad consensus..

worthy of noting???? ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!!

[uponit7771]

48. No, but Sanders does saying the system he lost fair and squre in is "rigged" when his own damn

... team admitted twice that they didn't compete in the "southern states"

[Herman4747]

58. "he lost fair and squre in is "rigged"??

Come back when you write coherent English.

[uponit7771]

59. Ad homs are an indicator of a weak position

[PowerToThePeople]

33. Appears to be racist divisive article from a Chelsea puppet (Daily Beast)

So nothing unusual for this election cycle.

[sufrommich]

35. Barrett Holmes Pitner is the author of the article.

Another thing I see Sanders supporters to do often is diminish anyone who disagrees with them and portray them as devious mouthpieces doing their masters bidding. To all but the most ardent Bernie supporters that comes off as insulting and dismissive.

[BobbyDrake]

43. And ends up looking like nothing but projection on their part... nt

[MrMickeysMom]

41. Race baiting...

Nice touch!

[sufrommich]

44. How is this "race baiting" ?

Why use this dismissive conservative term whenever race enters any discussion?

[MrMickeysMom]

47. Race baiting is now a "conservative term" is it?

You entered this discussion based on terms of race... You're so smart, you figure it out.

[sufrommich]

49. Yes,"race baiting" is a conservative term.

It conservative speck for "shut up".

[MrMickeysMom]

53. Did you get that out of some new dictionary?

[uponit7771]

52. When its used as a deflection against facts involving race and always has been

[Marr]

78. Today on DU, I leared that "race baiting" is a conservative term, and

the FBI is a right-wing think tank.



Pretty much tells you all you need to know about the Team Hillary mindset.

[uponit7771]

51. .... is the response openly and overt racist give to racial facts not in dispute. Seems like some...

... people out to check their racial progressiveness meter again.

[PowerToThePeople]

55. "White entitlement"

Is not a "fact" of this story. It it a personal opinion that is used to create a division along racial lines.

That to me sounds like the textbook definition of racism.

[uponit7771]

56. Yes it is, it describes exactly how the gender and racial establishment in the DNC is acting seeing

... its Sanders himself calling the system the long show black guy won with in 08 "rigged"

Bullshit, he just got his ass kicked by 3 million votes mostly cause his dumb ass'd team decided not to compete in the "southern states" by their own admission.

He shouldn't call the system rigged, he should call this race for HRC and get on with getting her a progressive congress

[Scuba]

54. Camp Weathervane first attacked Bernie's policies. He went from 3% to 25%.

Then they attacked his character. He went from 25% to 49%.








Now they're reduced to attacking his supporters. Pathetic.

[jonmac511]

57. but still

All while demanding that Sanders supporters vote for Clinton in the general. People seem to look at this as winning and nothing else. It's sad, really. The Clinton supporters feel entitled because they voted for Obama and now it's their turn. White privilege is a tool of ignorance and most people that use that tool are usually the ones that benefit from it most of all. Any chance of voting for Hillary are diminishing quickly because of the entitled attitude of her supporters.

[MrMickeysMom]

60. Barrett Holmes Pitner is a politics and race-and-culture journalist based in Washington, DC...

... who has issues with anything the other candidate might have to say against his HRC race-centric cheerleading, according to his Daily Beast "articles". I would more rightfully deem him the proverbial door knob for Hillary's David Brock, who already had no problem throwing Bill Clinton under the bus. These people sure are "special"!

Here are some of his Beast touted "articles"...

"When White People Have to Face Defeat"
"How Hillary Can Boost Black Turnout"
"Hillary's Secret Turnout Ally: BLM"
"The Berniacs Who Want to Watch it All Burn"
"How to Accept Hillary As a Bernie Fan"
"Why Black Celeb Endorsements Matter Most"

[sufrommich]

62. I notice you cherry pick his articles:

How Hillary Let Down #BlackLivesMatter
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/18/how-hillary-let-down-blacklivesmatter.html



Hillary Clinton’s Tone-Deaf Racial Pandering
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/29/hillary-clinton-s-tone-deaf-racial-pandering.html




Maybe,just maybe,every article against Bernie isn't a conspiracy using puppets of the Clinton machine. Maybe this writer's opinions are nuanced and a true reflection of his thoughts on race.

[MrMickeysMom]

65. Maybe you should have read those articles, too... I copied down the line, so include them, too.

For example, the tone-deaf racial pandering leads the reader into a "mia culpa" in the way both Sanders and Clinton started out awkwardly to the black community, more so with Clinton's more numerous examples of "Hispandering". The article ends with -

Despite being popular among Latino and African-American voters, Clinton still needs to solidify her support amongst these electorates. To do so, she will need to navigate a fairly uncharted terrain of cultural sensitivity, awareness, and respect that is new to American politics. (The GOP does not even dare to venture into this territory.) If more of Clinton’s outreach attempts seem tone deaf or overly reliant on her previous successes than her present rapport with today’s voters, it will be difficult for her to shake the image of being out of touch.

Which strikes Clinton with a feather as to how she should proceed if she's ever to "shake" this image.

He's still a door knob, and the point was made before you cherry-picked your own examples.

[BillZBubb]

63. Another racially divisive, anti-Bernie post! Shocking. You Hillary fanatics have no decency.

Of course if you did you wouldn't be supporting Hillary.

[CobaltBlue]

66. Consider the source. ‘Daily Beast’ has Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea.

[LWolf]

67. Because HRC and her supporters

have exhibited no sense of entitlement at all.

[glowing]

68. It seems weird calling people who are supporting a more "socialistic" govt that lifts all people and

provides the very basics of life, as in clean air/ water/ food, housing, education, and health care, as people who are "privileged". How does one equate Sander's positions as "white privilege"? Shouldn't you be excited that younger white males are actively cheering for changes in our judicial/ incarceration system, cheering for universal healthcare, access to quality education regardless of your zip code or your parents/ self's income, excited to hear them cheer for equality for LGBT, excited to hear them cheer for paid maternity leave/ quality child care, equalizing women/ men pay?

AND I'm sorry, I know people who support Clinton call out Sander's people CT regarding the voting suppression, wild results regarding exit poling and voting machines, the DNC and establishment Democrats actively pursuing an agenda against progressive politics, but I really think it's harder to NOT see it, than to actually see it happening. To many of us, the wool has been pulled out of our eyes. The Democrats who campaign in favor of the people and say the Republicans are at fault for not gaining these many needed items for our country, have been shown to be complete frauds. They are beholden to the corporations. AND even more telling, they are actively holding up a candidate that is under FBI investigation. Seriously, that's our litmus test? A little bit better than Donald Trump? 4 to 8 more years of crappy wages, war in the ME, a bloated military budget literally starving our children in the streets of America, costlier higher education, increases in insurance till the point everyone is having to pay the taxation fee because they cannot afford the ACA costs, and an increase in wild weather that causes costly re-building and displacement...

Capitalism as we have been experiencing, especially since Reagan years, is DEAD!! OR desperately needs to die. It should have died with communism. There is no need for a handful of wealthy/ powerful few to rule the world. There is no reason for anyone in any country to be working like a slave for someone else to profit. There is no reason to poison our earth or ourselves with chemicals and pollutants when we know how to do these things in a manner that won't harm everything around us. Fracking, seriously, its something that Cheney got started and Democrats love to take money for, and is more harmful than running coal fired factories.. and its not necessary when we have solar and wind and geo-thermal. There's no reason we are 30 to 40 yrs behind in providing our citizens quality, usable public transportation. There's no reason for people to be working more than 30 hrs a week or having 5 to 6 wks of vacation/ time off, or maternity/ paternity leave, or reasonable/ affordable/ safe housing, access to education, access to Drs when one is sick... There is no reason to struggle so, leave so much work we all see that needs to be done, left unattended, to continue to hear "we can't". We put a man on the damned moon, of course we can.

4-8 more yrs of "we can't", isn't what many people 40 and younger want to hear... In another 8 yrs, many of us will be looking at 50, lucky to have a job at McDonald's or Walmart, making shitty wages and wondering, how the fuck do we ever retire, we can't even afford to take a vacation OR to send our children to college... Is this the world anyone wants to live in? I think many people supporting Sander's are a bit more awake and if he doesn't win the white house, are prepared to stay engaged and push out those "we can't", corporate establishment Dems, for a future that says, "Yes, We Can"....

But keep calling a more socialistic model of govt "white entitlement"... that really goes over so well with 40 and under crowd.. BTW, we are the generations that, for the most part, accept people for who they are, date inter-racially and cross gender with complete ease. We have no problem with our boss' if they are male or female, for the most part (we only care if they are tyrannical assholes or if they are good work leaders). We recognize that we are destroying our planet and want the issue tackled like we did the moon project or building a destructive bomb. AND I'm on the upper side of the age numbers. I'm 37. I worry about living in this country actually inhibiting my children's life and what they can hope to accomplish vs their counter parts in other countries around the world. We are global now; we and they are competing in a big world. A child living in Germany is going to have a massive, massive advantage over my son regarding education, health care, even quality of food and expectations of pay for work and "down time" for family and friends. AND because of the internet and globalization, its something we all easily see and know its because our politicians are bought off that we "can't" have these things. We also know who is funding Clinton. Wall St, banks, and MIC... What do you expect you are going to get from her progressive wise? She doesn't even support $15.00 min wage (and that's still to little to actually live off of in America; it barely pays the rent on a single apt, let alone if you are a single working mom trying to raise a kid or two). For what I can see, she's a woman candidate that does nothing for women regarding policy other than look politically correct on a national stage.

[AgingAmerican]

73. They are projecting

[azurnoir]

74. words of the irony challenged all to get a white woman who is the embodiment of white privilege

nominated

[PufPuf23]

75. Haven't you already posted this trash?

I agree that there is a white entitlement wing (and those spellbound) of the Democratic party but they are not in general supporters of Sanders.

[Dems to Win]

81. Black-splaining how white people should react to an election loss

Sweeping generalizations about white Bernie supporters based on one conversation with 2 guys. Detailing their failings due to white privilege.

It's hard for me to imagine this would be published in 2016 if it was a white guy telling black people how to be gracious winners, explaining their failings due to black deprivation.

If you read the article, he links to a letter sent to the Atlantic from a Bernie supporter now tempted to vote for Trump. Here are some quotes the DailyBeast doesn't include, some explanation of why a lefty Occupier would even think of voting for Trump:
http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/05/why-one-bernie-sanders-supporter-is-tempted-to-vote-donald-trump/484841/

I do think a sort of “white” tribalization has something to do with it,
though it isn’t all tribalization; class appeals are part of it as
well. I can remember the first time I was spat on in an activist
meeting, sometime after Occupy. I hadn’t said much of anything, but I have always been an independent thinker and follow my own analysis, something of an idiosyncratic Marxism typically, and it was just for being white and male and not agreeing with whatever the speaker had said. I was “privileged.”

I didn’t make too much of it at the time, as there are always some unpleasant people you end up dealing with while doing activism, but I started noticing more and more of this over the next few years. I was not the only one. Most of my old circle of activist contacts dropped out one by one. Then I dropped out, quit Facebook and social media. It felt like such a relief; things had become so toxic.

Since then, I have been extensively re-evaluating my politics, and I
know there are many others doing the same thing. A left which is
focused on issues of identity and excludes issues of class (it was class issues which drew me to the left years ago) is no friend of mine, and it is no friend of the working class. And if it is all going to be tribal politics, then well, I guess you have to go with your own tribe—if not for your sake, then for the sake of your kids.

Trump as a person seems despicable. But he also seems strong. And he
listens to the popular will. He is against many things that I, as a
leftist, have protested over the years, such as NATO, international
trade agreements, and foreign wars. I feel like the corporate
globalization of the 25+ years has just ripped a hole through this
country, especially in the Midwest where I am from. Clinton will just
continue this and Trump seems like someone who wants it to stop.

[William769]

82. kick & recommended.