Convince me to stay a liberal.

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42. I think you may be mistaken...

I do not consider myself a Sanders supporter. It took me quite a while to even consider voting for him after he started running. For a little while, I thought I might be able to go further than voting and actually support him, but his supporters have since convinced me otherwise. Right now, I can't even say I will vote for him when people ask me whether I support him.

His supporters have been my biggest turnoff. It was right after the BLM demonstration in Seattle that I came to a firm conclusion that his movement will never be my movement. He doesn't represent me--his focus on economics is opposite of what I've learned will bring us forwards. Without centering on trans lives, on PoC, on women--any of the oppressed--they will inevitably be left behind.

I have done my darndest to convince liberals in Seattle that BLM is even more important than the Sanders campaign. That building local communities and understanding our neighbors will do much more for the world than voting once and forgetting about it. That maybe, in fact, we are white supremacists. Nobody will even talk about it, let alone agree. The only ones that do are the ones that already had it figured out, the ones that I'm still learning from.

This OP was because I'm not sure if I can be part of his movement. He's about as true of a liberal as they come, and I'm not sure that his movement won't do more damage then harm. There's immense possibility and drive for a genuine third-party workers/minority movement, but he's taking that energy and dropping it into the Democratic party, something I am very uncomfortable with. He's avoiding discussing the fervent attacks by his supporters on any minority that dares to think otherwise. He's not calling out the inherent injustices in our Constitution and our form of government.

This movement doesn't represent me. You say I have a lot of work to do, but I'm not sure I even want to be near this movement, let alone supporting it.