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daybranch

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5. Democratic Underground at this point is Bernie Underground and
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 07:02 AM
Jan 2016

rightly so. If you want it to be Hillary underground you would have had to have it first be something like Corporate Underground, or Third Way Underground, Pragmatically we can't Underground etc.. Bernie is the candidate for democracy and rejection of the oligarchy. Bernie and Democratic are to most of the people symbols of the same struggle the people of the US face against the oligarchy and the influence they have on our government to subvert democracy to provide unregulated capitalism for their greed. Hillary ain't our target. She is, like in the wars she supports, collateral damage.
To us, Hillary's positions, except on womens where she, Bernie and Martin O Marley all are strong supporters of women, are already capitulations to her donor class and therefore not leading towards democracy. Her attempts to portray herself as understanding women/s struggles is eroded by her past support of welfare reform, her support by the prison industry, her past support of minimum sentencing, her continued insistence marijuana be listed as a very harmful drug, and her female pandering without consideration that her economic stances hurt women and their families more than than her social stances can benefit them. Her stance that the children sent here from Latin America should be sent home certainly was revealing of what kindness she really has in her heart. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz would have been proud. Women are smart , they are empathetic , and they are kind, more so than us men. They will continue to see none of this in Hillary or her campaign so most of them I suspect actually agree that this should be Bernie Underground. C'mon, like Democratic Socialist has been accepted as one who believes in democratic regulation of capitalism, lets embrace Bernie Underground.

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