I'm female, lgbt, mixed race.
So I'm sure you can understand why national politics are of primary importance to me right now, and why electing Bernie is paramount on my agenda. The short version is I need a liberal SCOTUS, the right to have full control my own body, and legal protection from discrimination on several fronts. Add this to the fact that I seek both economic and social justice and detest neoliberalism, and voila! President Bernie Sanders is my best, and only option.
Furthermore, I don't believe that the earth can withstand much more abuse at the hands of neoliberals, and they will never stop abusing her unless they are assertively restrained from doing so.
The PTA just ain't gonna get me anywhere near where I need to go in my lifetime. You have a political party agenda, an agenda that I respect. But not grabbing the opportunity to vote for and elect Bernie Sanders to help advance your agenda right now is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Instead of preaching that Bernie Sanders can't win, and passively rolling over and accepting another Democratic neoliberal candidate vying for the WH, and many years of more destruction, stand together with us against neoliberalism.
Believe me, I really do get it, Garrett. But I see Bernie as the last chance for the US. If Bernie is not nominated, I'm moving out of the country permanently, because at that point, I'm done, the political situation in the US will have become hopeless, and I have better, more productive, and more fun stuff to do with the rest of my life than to struggle futilely with the neoiliberal/extreme RW walking dead in the US.
You might enjoy this read if you haven't read it yet.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21427-from-fire-to-autonomy-zapatistas-20-years-of-walking-slowly
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