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[MADem]

21. I wasn't implying anything about you at all. I was just pointing out a sad fact.

This is an ugly truth and many people just don't quite understand it.

Progressivism is NOT the same as liberalism. They can co-exist but QUITE OFTEN they don't, and this election is proof positive of that.

There are lots of so-called "progressives" who believe that black lives don't matter and that women and POC and gay people and immigrants and others who fall under the oft-derided/mocked "social justice" rubric should just shuffle to the back of the bus and sit down and shut up. Like McConnell told Betsy Warren to do.

These people believe that white men lead the way, and the rising tide of the success of the white male paradigm will eventually lift all boats. They're rather insultingly CERTAIN about this, too, and some of them purport to be on or from the left, when in actual fact they're coming from a place of privilege and selfishness. They either have theirs and want to keep it, or think they deserve to GET theirs, and they deserve to be first in line for it.

It's one of the things that the right used successfully to peel away some of those selfish and entitled morons to vote for Trump this time round. That white male privilege shit is REAL. It's running out of air, though, and the thrashing and push-back we see are the last gasps of a dying privileged sub-group of humans who've gotten away with far too much for far too long. They're going to have to compete with the rest of us and their skin/gender/suits-and-Trump Ties will be insufficient armor.