Democrats have nothing to gain be telling Bernie and his supporters to go to hell

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89. "Telling them to go to hell"

translation: thinking we have the right to vote as we please rather than understanding our sole purpose on earth is to serve our bettors.

If you want support for something, earn it. If the idea of politics is to whine about how everyone owes you something, people are obviously going to get pissed off.

And really, is there no point at which you are going to care about anything but political patronage networks formed through a primary resolved over a year ago? How long can you define your entire political consciousness around the career of one man?

The bumper sticker slogans are so tiresome, particularly because they are never accompanied by any kind of policy or reform agenda.

Corporate power. I have never seen even any attention to doing even the slightest thing about corporate power. I've never seen a proposal for a law, a reform. It exists entirely in the realm of rhetoric. All we hear are slogans.

I have yet to been able to convince one person who talks endlessly about Wall Street this and that to as much as utter a word of disapproval for the banking deregulation bill passed by the House. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029195380 The GOP is actively dismantling all regulation of finance, and they can't bring themselves to focus on anything but lambasting the Democratic Party.

You have all the opportunity in the world to stand up to corporate power by organizing against the GOP's banking deregulation efforts. So why aren't you? Why did the People's Summit ignore that in lieu of rhetoric about the Democratic Party and Wall Street? If you want to change the relationship between finance capital and the state, do something about it. Work to affect legislation. Talk is meaningless, yet it's all we see.

Here's the deal. No one owes you power. You have to work to bring about change, like everyone else in human history. You want to influence the direction of the country, get out there and do it. Don't sit back and complain about how others aren't doing it for you. You don't need anyone's permission to act in pursuit of what you believe. Whether random people on the internet like or don't like it doesn't stop you from acting on what you claim to care about. Yet we see absolutely none of that. Instead, we see one post after another with people complaining about how Democrats aren't nice to them. When did anyone who ever worked to change society worry about such a thing? Never.

The rich men. We have heard about how the Democratic Party needs to remake itself to serve the interests of the $100k plus a year white upper middle class that votes GOP--whose affluence has suddenly been recast as "working class", while the Democratic base whose whose incomes don't' reach half that are maligned as the "establishment." From my point of view, I see an effort to focus attention away from the lower income Americans who currently constitute the Democratic base to the more affluent white bourgeoisie that Sanders and his supporters have decided matter more.

I remember a very short time ago when the issue of the increased poverty for women and children, who are in fact the majority of the population, that results from lack of access to abortion rights just wasn't important enough to remain a focus of a party that needed to promote the economic prosperity of men. Abortion rights and with them the survival of women and children was just too "divisive" to remain a focus of the party. If we even dared to suggest that our equal rights and economic survival mattered, we were lectured about how we had to get with the agenda if we didn't want Trump and the GOP to remain in office. And now you talk about "rich men." Spare me. You wrote us out of your revolution. You don't get to then turn around and demand we work to promote your financial ascendancy. The privilege of a few doesn't enter into my political priorities, particularly when they've explicitly told me that my rights and my economic survival just aren't a priority.