Thank you! I keep trying to find a simple, non-ranty way to say what you’ve just said here. There is no progressive movement that can ignore the impact of racism and sexism. Your solutions also have to specifically address the roles racism and sexism play in our economy.

I also feel like Democrats have miserably failed to identify just how bad racism and sexism is here, and while there may be a few that have comprehensive plans to address the issue, I feel like they’ve been all talk, little to no results.

That’s the least thing a decent person can say. It’s like saying nazis are bad and slavery was bad. You have to go further than that.

I argue that it is worse to know the outcome of a bill and still vote for it. Also, I don’t think bernie was the deciding vote so he could have abstained. Why would bernie care if he is labelled as “soft on crime”? These are all excuses. He should just say he made a bad decision supporting the bill. The fact that he…

The preceding statement can’t be dismissed in order to get the full context of what he said. He thinks every issue that faces non-white, cis, heterosexual men are niche issues. Therefore, until we fix the issues particular to straight, white men (“ordinary americans”), there is no impetus to fix “niche issues”

It’s hilarious to read bernie supporters asking everyone else to vote for the good because there is no perfect. Bernie supporters act like that wasn’t the exact thing hillary supporters were saying last year. They act like we should just forget the shit they said and did last year. trump might be good at…

I’m seriously confused with the people that think this is some sort of hatchet job on his character. It is easy to be zen and not worry about money when you have it. When it is abruptly taken from you, your true colors show. Plus, he’s got 3 kids to worry about. I still bristle as the fact that he blamed Jane and…

I got an Astros themed checkbook about 8 years ago. Every time I’ve had to write a check, I wasn’t ashamed. I’m so happy.

Glad Beltrain came back and won with this team.

I listened to Michael Steele on a podcast recently and he tried to justify being a black republican by invoking the name of Harriet Tubman and all the “historical black folks” that were republicans. And he thinks the party will swing back to eventually being the home for black people so he’ll just ride on until that…

It could be because he threatened to commit suicide to get a date?

Oooh, I like this!

That’s another issue I have. I lost respect for anyone that went out of their way to paint hillary as a terrible witch but as soon as she won the primary, they started singing a new tune. How? What changed in that time? It’s not that they discovered new things about Hillary that they didn’t know. Their theories about…

Yeah, I’m gonna need sources for Clinton not supporting those. She did in fact support both issues and had more than one criteria for a supreme court nominee.

He had been yelling “break up the banks” and he didn’t have a plan to break up the banks! I was on the fence before that interview, I was definitely done with him afterwards.

Isn’t this the time to push politicians to be better educated on the issues? If bernie can’t be criticized and pushed to be better right now, then when is the right time? 2019? Unless you think he is perfect and infallible. Bernie has an economic message blind spot. There is no amount of equal economic message that…

His only test for a supreme court nominee was overturning Citizens United. Not any of the more pressing issue the court was deciding at that time, for example, the continuous attacks on abortion rights. The politicians he was willing to endorse or support were folks that pushed for $15 minimum wage and didn’t take…

No, we don’t want a smooth talking politician, we want someone that understands the complexities and intersectional nature of issues facing PoC. Poor white folks worry about getting a job. Black folks worry about racism and getting a job. Continually talking only about helping people get jobs ignores the other aspect…

I think this was from the episode where they were trying to find a new performer on TGS and Jack thought he found a great guy who turns out to be a misogynist. I’ve been rewatching 30 Rock, great show.

I lost respect for many facebook friends during the primary, especially all the bernie supporters. They always bring up “he marched for the blacks and got arrested” Congratulations? I hope deep in my 70s, I can point to something I did in my 20s to absolve me of any criticism.