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In reply to the discussion: I'm ready for a revolution [View all]BainsBane
(57,714 posts)show that you stand with the rich over the rights of ordinary citizens to vote as they see fit. There is nothing left wing about promoting Donald Trump.
I have every right to be angry about being lectured to about revolution by the super rich. I have every right to speak my mind, and your ongoing determination that citizens have no right to question the rich and powerful is not Democratic or democratic. Sarandon doesn't have a clue what it's like to be poor, but she wishes upon the poor increased misery because she thinks it will shock them into doing her bidding. I have every right to be pissed about that.
Revolution means something. You all though it was cute to appropriate it as a campaign slogan and throw it around to pretend it could be limited to installing one member of the political elite in power. That isn't how it works. Revolution means something. It has meant redistribution of wealth, something you all pretended to champion when it didn't affect your own. Now we learn that the super rich who support Bernie are to be protected at all costs and that their rights supercede those of ordinary Americans who dare to vote as they choose.
Now we see that you all in fact do not support redistribution of wealth. You don't resent the 1 percent. As has been clear for some time, the enemy is Democratic voters, people who have the audacity to exercise their own rights rather than following the orders of a self-entitled few. Add to that advocacy organizations like the Brady Campaign, environmental groups, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, the Human Rights Council, unions, civil rights activists like Dolores Huerta, John Lewis, and the Mothers of the Movement, and we see very clearly exactly who and what constitutes the enemy.
Unlike Sanders supporters, I haven't called Sarandon's home, bombarded her social media accounts, or demand she vote as I insist. Unlike she did to Dolores Huerta, I didn't approach her with a collection of idiotic internet memes, a good number of which were false, and insisted that she didn't know how to vote right. I've posted my opinion on a public message board, but progressive values, according to you, require I stay silent, remain obedient to the rich and powerful, acquiesce to their inherent superiority and do as I am told. Fat chance. I exercise my right to free speech however and whenever I can, and your transparent efforts to silence dissent are not even remotely convincing.