Bye Bye Bernie...There is no economic populism without abortion rights and civil rights.

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73. Absolute purity about how you want women's rights carried out can be harmful.

Clearly there is some disagreement about aspects of women's rights, although I sure as hell would make contraception free, would have appropriate late term abortions, would have a hell of a lot more centers providing women's services (including Planned Parenthood -- not only would that be cost effective, it is also humane), effective health care for all, etc.

But if our march towards such goals can be thwarted by people raising questions to split us apart, we are lost.

And yes, some of the allies we have along the way may not be as "pure" as we would like, but if we dismiss them all, not only will we fail, but our foes in these matters will be absolutely delighted. Indeed, our foes feed this disagreement -- clearly Republicans and other trolls love it when we divide ourselves.

Shouldn't we ask ourselves whether it makes sense to engage in tactics that our opponents want us to use?