2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley Failed Their #BlackLivesMatter Test [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)and grew up in western NC. My parents taught at a small liberal arts college for 30 years. I know the south very well.
You and I are not ever going to agree.
You have bought into the New Dem lie that social justice and economic justice are too separate things. I do not. One can not exist without the other.
You trust Clinton even though history and facts show just how bad she and her husband have been for the minority communities from NAFTA job outsourcing to three strikes drug laws to mass incarceration.
I also strongly disagree about legislating change. LGBT marriage rights was the product of a long cultural shift spanning almost two generations before a legal challenge made it successful. DADT & DOMA both of which your candidate supported set back that change by at least a full decade if not two.
You believe Hillary is a champion. She is not. She is in this for herself and like all New Dems will say what liberals want them to say but will govern in ways that are only moderately socially liberal and definitely not progressive economically. I already posted once today in a reply that the top 5 issues for AA in the 2014 election were not about social justice. They were all economic issues including immigration.
To not realize that Wall Street and the way they now own our government is not major issue is to have accepted the propaganda fully. You don't entice corporations. Since the 1970's and the rise of the Chamber of Commerce, corporations push us.
Like I said, you are not going to change your opinion and views, but I must speak out against them all the same.