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314. The people typically promoting this "flexibility"

when it comes to social justice issues aren't progressives like Bernie. While Bernie did say a while back that he was willing to work with 45 on certain economic issues such as trade deals IF there was common ground, he also said that there were some issues that could NEVER be compromised such as racial justice, gay rights, women's rights, etc.

His detractors tended to misunderstand what he said and/or twist his words around to fit their "Bernie is a sexist" false agenda.

Most of the people claiming that Democrats need to water down issues and move even *more* right by promoting anti-choice candidates in the south are the center-right faction of the party, because they certainly aren't progressives (like Bernie) who promote both social and economic justice with NO compromise on various social and civil rights issues. Bernie said it himself over and over in numerous speeches when discussing these topics.

I do personally support 2nd amendment rights and have voted against some Democrats in the past who were too "ban happy" (though recently the GOP is just so whacko that I can't even do that anymore), and I know a lot of Republicans who are pro-choice and support gay marriage, but who refuse to vote for Democrats ever solely because of 2nd amendment rights, so when it comes to this particular issue, flexibility here may be a very good point, particularly since it is not a social/economic justice issue that would throw any disenfranchised groups under the bus.

Being anti-choice would be a human rights violation though, so there's really no compromise or flexibility there.