The inevitable Hillary will lead to President Rand Paul.

[woo me with science]

275. Mischaracterizing what you are being told does not help your argument.

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You keep trying to insist that others are "denying" the importance of race and gender issues, when the posts clearly articulate exactly the opposite. They stress the importance of these issues and point out how economics is a major driving, aggravating, and sustaining force in that oppression.

Your bizarre denial of what simple history shows to be true across the human experience, and your attempt to smear others with what they have not been arguing, reek of privilege and disingenuousness, particularly since the posts you are replying to are right here on the page and speak for themselves.

You've acknowledged that you are in it for your own interests when it comes to choosing politicians, and I thank you for your honesty in that regard:

2banon (3,744 posts)
You have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo, I have a vested interested in reforming it.

1StrongBlackMan (12,850 posts)
271. And you have a vested interest in maintaining the racial status quo; ...

However, your mistake is in assuming that everyone else thinks that way, too.

You have put yourself in the stunning position of arguing, on a Democratic board,

(1) that racial and gender issues are unrelated to economic oppression and that one can simultaneously support racial and gender equality *and* support politicians who viciously assault the democratic and economic systems that all of history shows make that equality possible

and

(2) that expressions of anger and concern about spiraling poverty and inequality and oppression must necessarily be a sign of craven self-interest.

Think about that, and what it implies about your view of human beings and the role of politics in their lives. That's the myopia of the privileged, not being able to conceive that anything beyond self-interest - like compassion, or a sense of justice, or a desire for a more equal society - could be playing a part in other people's political views.