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In reply to the discussion: "I don't agree with you on this. Therefore I can't like you or agree with you on that." [View all]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)And as one that has been declared a "divider" and "mak(ing) DU suck" (particularly, on matters of Race and privilege, both racial and gender; but also, in my support of President Obama and Democrats, in general), let me explain myself ...
I do so, primarily, because I am tired of being told, by liberals, that "we must be united on my issues, particularly, the 99% issues, ... we will get to your racial/gender status quo issues after we resolve the 99% issues."
Further, I am tired of being told that I am not the Democratic base because I place a higher value on supporting definable Democrats ... Democrats that can, and do, write the legislation that I agree with, even if the legislation doesn't go as far as I would like ... than a set of ill-defined "principles", that change every generation and twice, depending on who is defining it.