Celebrating victory

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52. Yes, well it would be nice if such concerns about moving left

included gun control, a basic right to life over the profits of gun corporations, addressing inequality in K-12, not granting civil immunity to an entire sector of the capitalist economy, or not perpetuating a vision of history that hearkens back to a time when the majority were denied equal rights and economic access.Those are all issues Clinton is stronger on.

Given the positions I have seen justified in the name of progressivism, I'm not terribly persuaded by your fixation with labels and compass points.


Yet your anger isn't about the demise of issues. It's about the defeat of one politician, one man.

We have had thread after thread celebrating Bernie's wins, even when they weren't really wins. Yet people who support the presumptive Democratic nominee don't have that same right. That is just one of the many rights that I have seen denied to anyone who doesn't think and vote like Sanders supporters demand.

There is no conception of leftism that justifies a hierarchical version of human worth. The version of progressivism I have seen advanced posits a few "progressives" as superior to the majority, insists people of color are too "uninformed" or not "smart" enough to vote as those people demand, or that they are suffering from "stockholm syndrome." I have been called a "vagina voter" and part of "club vagina" for daring, once in my life, to vote for a woman rather maintaining government as the sole province of men.
Anonymous had quite a bit to say about those attitudes. https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40youranoncentral+%23feelthebern+OR+%23bernie&src=typd