Guys, after seeing the Sanders supporters show their royal hineys in CaliDem's OP

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6. I don't think the exclusionary nature of that politics is incidental

I actually think it is key, for some at least. We see repeated threads resurrecting presidents from the Jim Crow era, even after having it pointed out now problematic it is to long for those days. Some respond extremely hostility if you even raise the issue, call us idiots for not assuming they don't mean that. Well, if they don't, why do they keep hearkening back to a past when most Americans were denies equal rights and lived in crippling poverty? The hostile anger in response is hardly reassuring, nor is it intended to be.

African Americans are fine as long as they go along with what the people who matter--themselves--want, but if they start raising their own concerns and talking about stuff like white privilege and racism--if they start acting too black-- that is "divisive." Feminists are okay as long as they focus on abortion, on making it easier for men to have sexual access to women, but if they threaten the privilege of liberal men, then that is "divisive." People have openly lamented the drift of the party toward the concerns of women, people of color, and LGBT as part of the "Third Way." They have dismissed Obama's DOJ as doing "nothing," referring to "no-balls Holder," someone so ineffective as to be emasculated. In reality, we know Holder did a great deal for voting rights and rape victims on college campuses. Those accomplishments can only be considered nothing when they people whose lives they effect are nothing. The sum total of these comments leaves me with an impression that, like the GOP, they want to take America back, though they have somewhat different visions of what that past was like.