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In reply to the discussion: FUCK YOU SUSAN SARANDON [View all]BainsBane
(57,760 posts)Those who voted for Stein and Trump voted AGAINST overturning Citizens United and cleaning up dark money. They moved to oppose POLICY tackling money in politics. They chose to stand with fascism and racism and thereby brought about the suffering people are gong through now. To claim otherwise shows no understanding of the policies advanced by the major candidates in the election. They actively worked to undermine campaign finance reform by voting against Clinton.
Jill Stein ran a scam that netted herself $4 million from the vulnerable. To pretend her self-enrichment is some principled stand is ludicrous. She may also have taken illegal contributions from the Russians. We know she took money from their propaganda arm, RT.
Voters have a responsibility to inform themselves. I will not be lectured by those who can't bother to do so. Internet memes are not policy. That some decided Hillary was responsible for a campaign finance system created to undermine her (C United) is a function of willful ignorance, misogyny and perpetration of Russian and GOP propaganda.
Why do they have to hate? You might ask that if those who so despise Hillary Clinton that they chose to stand with the KKK in promoting fascism. Their hatred for a party that refused to put the self-entitled white male bourgeoisie above the non-white male majority led them to promote the current regime of white male supremacy. Families have already been torn apart due to their actions. Many lives will be lost, as they continue to justify the fascist regime they implemented.
I am a Democrat. I do hate racism, misogyny, and fascism, as EVERY decent human being does. I value human life over privilege and ego. I will never apologize for denouncing fascism, ego-based politics, and those who enable, promote, or justify them.
The 2016 election was the equivalent of Germany in 1933. The people you defend chose to ally with fascism. That they justify it through false claims doesn't make their complicity any better. You have a moral choice to make about whether you will continue to defend the Fascist collaboration. That is your decision based on your values, on who you are. This site, however, is not the place to advance those justifications. And you certainly aren't going to convince me to justify fascist collaboration by repeating the uninformed views of self-entitled voters who actively worked to undermine the very issue they claimed to care about.