What good is economic justice, if I don't have the social justice to access and keep it?

[JCanete]

50. but who is doing this? The closest thing you have to suggesting that this is a liberal tendency is

that Sanders, I think wrongly by the way, endorsed candidates who have histories on women's rights that are unacceptable, although they had both certainly promised they would perform differently going forwards...that's a hard sell, and was certainly a divisive choice by Sanders.

In fact, the thing I found most promising about Sanders popularity was that he has always been ahead of the curve on social justice and he was pulling people from across the spectrum. Here was this populist socialist getting people to vote for a candidate who did not mince words on whether or not "black lives matter." Some of his supporters were more conservative voters who overlooked these stances on social justice because something about the message still resonated. That's an in. That's a way to get them to stop retreating into their biases and starting to see that they need their diverse brothers and sisters.

I'm not being dismissive of the post. You can't simply address social justice issues as if there isn't a whole machine behind keeping them the way they are and making them worse. You have to disrupt that machinery. That machinery is fed by people who are terrified of bullshit, and the way to disrupt that is not to tell them that they are wrong and bad...but to tell them that they are being played and that we have an answer that will actually make their lives better...AGAIN, that we have an enemy for them that they can sink their teeth into, and actually come out of it with some sustenance.