2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why I DON'T support Bernie for President [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Please stop saying he said that or that he believed that when you know perfectly well that he never has said that.
Bernie has never said that people should stop fighting bigotry, or that bigotry doesn't matter, either.
All he said was that you need economic justice to be able to get where you can truly end bigotry. That it was a precondition, not a cure. What is so terrible about saying that? What harm comes from saying that?
And how can you possibly think it is progressive to support the person who has always had the most conservative overall views of anyone in the race(other than Jim "The Confederate Flag is no biggie" Webb)?
Bernie has some people among his supporters who don't come off well...but so does HRC and so does O'Malley and so does everyone else who is running or could run for the Democratic nomination.
If HRC wins...it keeps the right out of power. But nothing transformational can ever happen under a HRC presidency. Especially if she sends troops to fight IS(a step which would instantly mean she would cease to be even a centrist president).