If you are going to vote for the establishment candidate why are you on Democratic Underground?

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197. The problem is that you think you're to the left of those you disagree with

It's not a personal thing, but you're not. Like I said, not a judgement, just a fact.

Millennial democrats are leaving the DNC and it's out-dated values behind. To them, anyone who is against full equality for LGBT people are idiots, anyone who is against decriminalization of pot is an idiot, anyone who isn't 100% for gender equality is, again,, an idiot, etc. on the death penalty, student loans and college expense, foreign wars, gun control, proliferation of the police state, the MIC in general, etc. etc. They have no tolerance for those things as they continue to be a battle today. In their eyes they shouldn't be a battle. It's obvious. Women should be paid as much as men. LGBT people should be not only accepted but welcomed. Student loans are predatory and college expense are egregious examples of extortion. And on and on.

The fact that some here think that it's ok to compromise those rights away, those positions away, receive adverse reactions by millennials. We are sick and tired of the "lesser of two evils". They're both still evil. Do you support the person that kills 50,000 people or the person that kills 500,000 people? Of course, it's not a real example, but it's the same idea. What degree of evil do you condone?

Sixty years ago Democrats stood for civil rights. We didn't stand for incremental changes that sort of helped people and were a "good step" in the right direction. We stood for all people are created equal. Not somewhat equal, not occasionally equal. Equal. And we fought for it. And we won. In 2003 in Massachusetts we fought for marriage equality when we could have simply and easily passed civil unions. We fought for it. And we won.

In the meantime, we as a party, in particular our leadership have lost that. Democrats are not supposed to be politicians. They are supposed to be activists. And there is a stark contrast between the two.

To continue, I don't actually care why the forum was set up. it's a silly statement and completely irrelevant.

People do not post right wing ideology.