There is some backlash against new mothers who work if they are wealthy enough (or appear wealthy enough) to afford not to. If a new mother is poor, though, she is viewed as lazy and wasting taxpayer money if she chooses to take public assistance to better care for her child.

I think one of the reasons the gender aspect is under-discussed is the continued backlash against mothers who work. You should want to stay home with your child anyway! Don’t you feel guilty letting someone else raise them? How selfish to keep working when you have to pay someone such a large part of your income to…

I’m ok with this. I’ll probably be blasted for saying such, but I’m ok with it. And I LOVE Bellamy Young. This is no different than Obama in ‘08, but somehow, miraculously, treated so, so differently. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How do you hack an interview? You ask a question and you write what the subject answers. His answers - Sanders’ answers on a subject he’s been beating to death for months - were profoundly uninformed. His election opponent was correct to say so.

I think if your whole political persona is that you’re fairly moderate and you have a ton of experience, you’re going to attack anyone who runs against you as extreme and less experienced. I don’t see those attacks as being reflections of anything so much as her running on her strengths.

And I don’t understand how Sanders supporters brag about Bernie’s anti-establishment bona fides (the merit of which, as you say, is questionable) when he is a man who has been in the most establishment institution on Earth - the US Congress - for 25 years.

The same goes for just about anything in life. Idealism and “purism” aren’t how life *actually rolls*, yet they can INFORM how life rolls.

See also: tropes like expecting marriage to be a fairy tale, being a doctor or lawyer is like on the tv shows etc.

At root, one has to have the courage to see life as it actually…

Agree 1000%. The problem with a lot of progressive movements is that they get focused on dismantling the system, which is too large of a goal and inevitably fails. Whereas setting goals of working within the system to enact meaningful changes that make people’s lives better in the everyday, that’s often seen as…

That’s why I don’t get how Hillary being “establishment” is a bad thing.

It’s not unlike the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. Lots of great energy/intent behind it - yet so cynical/mistrustful of the system (and rightly so) that it becomes ineffectual in working towards lasting long term change. There need to be goals and objectives to aim and trade towards.

Wish they could realize that…

As a POC I don’t disagree with anything he said. At that point in time shit was like it was now but like 50 times worse. Black Community leaders endorsed this bill. HELL BERNIE SANDERS ENDORSED THIS BILL with his sorry not sorry reasons. And the black community does have some onus to take on here. Hindsight is 20/20.…

It’s not about a high horse, it’s about demanding change from your government. Keep aiming low.

2000 taught many of us the value of settling.

I’m always amazed at the people surprised that the DNC is supporting Hilary over him. She is a long-time democrat, always run as a member of the party. Bernie is an independent who switched when he decided he wanted to run as president. She is a party loyalist, and while you can disagree about the value of that, as…

So you expect all down ticket candidates for the US House and Senate, for state and local races, to magically raise money like Bernie or lose to the republicans? How? Do Bernie unicorns fart money? Unless and until the campaign finance system is totally overhauled, you are basically demanding that all democratic…

Bernie running as a democrat was the most intellectually dishonest thing he’s ever done. It’s basically using the democratic machine for his own ends but not willing to reciprocate in the least.

He could have run as an independent. He is one, after all. But I love the entitled attitude that he should get the party’s support, even as he bashes them for being “establishment”.

You keep on citing the Florida senate race on the idea that the DNC is funding a republican to block a progressive. Their funding Patrick Murphy, who was a Republican in 2011, but has been a successful Democratic congressman since 2012. He’s a little centrist for my tastes, sure I don’t begrudge him the party change-…

Do you understand that these “smaller” races are the ones where the Koch bros will suddenly throw $180k in the last 2 weeks before election day? They rely on these sort of fundraisers to fight it off, which is becoming a huge problem for states that have lost their legislatures to the extreme right. See Wisconsin,…