What message would we send if we quickly rejected Bernie and crowned HRC?

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174. Yours is not the politics of the 99 percent

You care about yourself and your own class interests, and say the poor should be content with food stamps. You see the poor as objects of charity, not citizens who are as worthy of articulating their concerns as you are. You refuse to consider that anyone has legitimate interests, that their lives even matter. You insult people far less privileged than yourself as allied with Wall Street simply because they don't share your contempt for one woman. Class isn't defined by hatred for a single politician. It's defined by wealth and privilege. The poor and subaltern are not allied with Goldman Sachs because they refuse to abandon their own concerns for your interests. You are so certain that our concerns are so inconsequential that you insist all that matters is what you declare is important. You completely ignore, and define out of existence, the concerns of the vast majority of Americans who don't fit your narrow view of politics. If we are drawing only two sides, I don't put you on the side with the lower 50-60 percent.

I think this 99 percent thing is a pretty convenient artifice for the upper-middle class. They pretend they speak for the majority, while demonstrating nothing but contempt for the voices and interests of members of that majority, refusing to consider anything they have to say and instead insulting them. You aren't on the side of the 99 percent. You promote your own class interests and are completely hostile to the very right of those less fortunate to articulate their concerns. You show no more concern for my basic rights, or the rights and concerns of the rest of the subaltern, than do bankers. Like it's supposed to matter to us if someone is in the upper 1 percent or the upper 10 percent when they show that they see us as less than them and don't give a shit about how we define our own concerns. If there are only two sides, you are a lot closer to Goldman Sachs than Justin or I are.