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In reply to the discussion: Bernie just equated working voters with white voters, again. [View all]JustAnotherGen
(38,224 posts)By voting for the Democratic Party since 2007 I have voted against my secondary interest - taxes/money. That's the year that I had reached $1 Million in my retirement - long before I was married. (I got the marriage bump but I didn't need it)
It did not come from just hanging around and getting it handed to me.
I moved 450 miles away from home where I knew not a sou in 2006 to get into my current company.
Prior to that while my peers were getting married and having children - I worked as a Channel Manager for a Pre-IPO VoIP PBX Manufacturer. In this job in 2005 - from January to July 30th I slept 14 nights in my apartment in Rochester NY. 14 nights. The rest were spent in Detroit, Boston, NYC, Youngstown Ohio, etc. etc. Everywhere but home.
Prior to that I worked for a division of Bell South where I was on the road quite a bit but not as much at the PBX Manufacturer.
Prior to that I was laid off for close to a year because prior to that . . . I was at the Glotanic or Global Double Crossing as some call it . . . where I was blackballed for speaking up and out about the the con game John Ledger *current CEO of T-Mobile* ran. I was the FIRST BLACK WOMAN in the old Frontier Corps (merged with Global Crossing) carrier services - and there was resentment from Union employees (both black and white) that I stepped into the job as I quote (a snot nosed kid) where I often sat alone at lunch. When I COULD take lunch - because they didn't expect me to succeed (management) but my Carriers (customers) made sure I put up my numbers.
That required isolation from my white male competitors on the job.
I resent ANYONE telling me I'm not a worker. I deeply resent it. And I still drive the 2006 Nissan Altima I paid cash for. I'm not trying to impress anyone in real life or online. Not with a car - not with what I have. It's there for when I need it.
But I won't lie about it. And I won't let someone tell me lies that I'm not a 'worker' just because I got ahead of him through that SACRIFICE and Hard Work. <--- That's not directed towards the rank and file Sanders supporter. That's for the White Men Whining and Crying and Supporting Trump who I feel are lazy lay abouts who could have done everything I did but chose not to. I have zero empathy for them (White Male Trump Supporters).
Does that answer your question?
I.E. I already vote against myself - but at the end of the day a threat against muslims, hispanics, women, poor people, the elderly, black people - keeps me a Democratic Party member. My aknylosing spondylitis does too. Tick tock - what day will I wake up and never be able to use my left hip again? Tick Tock - what day does my rib cage completely close around me lungs (my body is slowly suffocating me). That's why I love Obamacare and feel it was a good start.
That's why I'm voting Democratic in November.