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In reply to the discussion: What good is economic justice, if I don't have the social justice to access and keep it? [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)Sanders, but if that's not the case, its hard to have a discussion if you aren't going to point me in the right direction.
No, the discussion on so many of these issues has languished for decades. Sanders didn't invent any of them. Sanders, in large part, by the serendipity of being a senator in the small state of Vermont has not just the passion, but yes, the luxury to continue to try to remind us that these issues are important and shouldn't be lost or put off for some future date. They could be done if just the members of our party had the will do have done it. We did once have congress and the White House. The American people would have been better off for such legislation and it would have been even harder to attack these things than it has been to attack Obamacare, since we made Obamacare weaker than it could and should have been, and thus, usable as a tool against Democrats--and possibly, not sustainable because of it?
If we actually promoted these things in solidarity...you know, these things that the American people when polled show they want, maybe we could also win more elections.