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30. a candidate who actually did something about social justice while in office

the fact is Sanders had pretty much no record of ever having done anything while in office in regards to social justice. To take one example. He was mayor of Burlington, an astoundingly liberal city, from 1981 to 1989. During that time he passed nothing, nor tried to pass anything, of substance in regards to gay rights. The entire state had a civil rights bill for LGBT in 1991. It just wasn't a priority for him. Where was he on voting rights in the Senate? Where was he on ENDA in the Senate? On economic issues he was loud, strong, impossible to ignore. On civil rights issue he was wall paper. Yes, he voted the right way but that is it. And Hillary, who largely voted the right way on economic issues we have been told repeatedly wasn't good enough because she didn't utter some combination of words or took money or what have you. One thing which might be nice is to be allowed to say that we don't think it is enough to simply vote for but not demonstrate any actual passion for our rights without being told we are not real liberals.