2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Read the Tweets from the Media Director of Netroots Nations. He knew this would happen. [View all]BainsBane
(53,026 posts)This kind of reverence for authority and value of politicians among the people they represent shows a profoundly conservative view of the relationship between elected representatives and the people. They are owed no apologies because they don't know how to deal with a social movement you clearly think inconsequential in comparison to one man's political career. Such disdain for social activism is reprehensible.
Hell will freeze over before I ever support such an authoritarian, conformist view of politics. Political activists do not need to "apologize" to the political elite because those two men mishandled the situation.
Those people are leftists, REAL leftists who are activists, who care about actual issues, who care about something besides the careers of the political elite. And you, in promoting a conformist and authoritarian version of politics where the people rare subordinate to politicians, demand they apologize. There is not now nor ever has been anything leftist about holding politicians above the people. It is profoundly anti-egalitarian and utterly shameful.