Hillary Clinton Room-I didn't know people in my "group" see being challenged as treason.

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9. It's amazing how they can be so angry

that a few people on this site have the nerve to support another candidate. Doesn't say much for their commitment to Democracy. So you all are going to vote for a different Democrat? So what? Yet that in itself is seen as completely unacceptable, rendering you inferior. It speaks poorly of their views on human equality and democracy. They rail against oligarchy, while working to create a party that excludes the majority and caters to the interests of a few. If you even mention that civil rights, women's rights, or LGBT rights matter, you are accused of being Third Way. Politics is about their interests and no one else's. The poor? Given them food stamps. What else could they possibly deserve? This country belongs to the white upper-middle and middle-class, not anyone else, not the 1 percent and not the lower 50 percent. They repeatedly dismiss the work by DOJ to defend voting rights or use civil rights provisions to combat rape as "nothing" because it isn't about them. Anything that speaks to the basic civil rights of the majority of Americans is "nothing," if it doesn't express their anger at no longer sitting near the top of the capitalist system. They have no problem with capitalism or inequality itself, just the fact that they no longer benefit from it.

It's not a coincidence that some of the most conservative members of the site are aligned against Clinton, the same people who flip out if anyone tries to discuss sexism and racism outside the police (who they already despise) or the GOP. That even held up a former Klansman to make their case and insisted it smacked of "desperation" to point out the fact he was in fact a leader of the Klan for quite a long time. Rather, it shows how much some of them have in common with the furthest right elements in America. How many times are we going to hear about how great America was before the 1960s? It doesn't matter how many times it's pointed out that most of us were denied basic rights, they keep talking about how much better America was back then. They care about one thing: having their anger validated by politicians on the tee vee. Some are every bit as contemptuous of the majority as are the GOP, as their constant efforts to exclude people from the Democratic party demonstrate. Their political ideology is premised on one principle: entitlement.