Stein, Sarandon, Cornel West and their ilk own this.

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195. You can repeat it all you like...

But you cannot separate social justice issues from economics

Unless you are a tea partier or a neosocialist.

This realization of Sanders that his decades old view that social issues detract from economic issues is new. I guess that he finally listened to someone on this issue.

http://feministing.com/2017/04/23/no-bernie-theres-no-economic-justice-without-abortion-access/

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/bernie-sanders-democrats-identity-politics-231710

http://www.rawstory.com/2013/10/bernie-sanders-tells-ed-schultz-southern-democrats-are-tired-of-being-abandoned-by-the-party/

I'm from the deep midwest, thank you, so I am familiar with them, despite your straw man that I have a "fantasy that they're all anti-choice, racist homophobic assholes." That's called attacking a strawman, BTW...

I'm not the one who has to reach 270 in 2020. I think that pitting voters against each other in the service of a few who have some political ambitions to be built on pitting Democrats against each other won't accomplish it, especially here on DU.