Yes I agree about Sanders. I criticised his campaign for the same reason. It’s also been over a year since the end of the primary and he has since just been back to working in Congress, mostly on issues that I support such as health care and opposition to DAPL etc.

Sometimes I wonder if you people are bots? You know, activism exists in real life too, not just online. And in real life, when you are working in leftist activism, some of the people are white and some are not. Some are men and some are not. They are actively working already on feminist and racial justice and…

Also I have to add that it’s really bizarre to the point that I’m wondering if you are real to claim that it’s the left that is neglecting the sorts of rights that you’d categorize under “identity politics” when you are actually supporting Dems running prolife candidates that lobby against reproductive rights.

Nope. Well therein lie our major ideological differences. I’m from a red state too. It has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and this especially affects POC. And the Reps- far right and brutal as they get- are attacking women and closing clinics and all sorts of health care. The appropriate…

Yes, Bernie did. As I said in my first post. Bernie, like most career politician Dems, had briefly backtracked a couple months ago. I asked what leftwing or progressive groups other than Democrats have done this? You are the one that keeps making statements about the left without defining what that means or responding…

It’s going to happen in the next five years, unless there is some sort of structural collapse or massive movement to war. What you keep overlooking is that the majority of people want it. The Reps don’t represent the population on this issue, so it wouldn’t be about 45%- that would just be in Congress. The general…

Wait a minute. How is having Democrats who are anti-choice not the same as having Democrats change their party’s platform? I get that they didn’t change the language in the mission statement, but if they are going to change their advocacy and legislation, then that is going against their platform.

Oh yes I agree that we need to hash out the details of whatever plan we put in place as it will work differently here than in other places (as you point out- it works differently everywhere). What I’m saying is that the Dems have a year to do this and another year to campaign on it. You are talking about the current…

What I’m asking is, where are these far left voters that demand identity politics being dropped? Best I can tell, this is a strawman. Let’s even go with your definition of “far left” (which is ludicrous as I said) and include Bernie supporting progressive groups, DSA, Greens, Justice Democrats, Our Revolution,…

First off, we aren’t talking about changes over time. We are talking about right now, the near future and the recent past. So sure, Democrats used to support slavery and Republicans were the party of Lincoln. A century from now, if the two parties still exist, they will be different again. We are seeing a similar…

Crossposted with you, sorry. I deleted it so as not to be redundant.

Yes exactly.

I like Sanders, don’t get me wrong. I voted for him and think he did a lot of good, especially in the reaching out to disaffected voters, mobilizing the movement we have now, bringing issues of economic justice to the table, etc. But yes, he is on the progressive to Dem Socialist spectrum, though he’s not a member of…

A big part of the reason they can’t pass single payer in California is because of their leadership. Do you really think Nancy fucking Pelosi is a champion for this cause? She’s still not coming out for it, unless she did very recently and I missed it. It’s not the fault of the voters there who would overwhelmingly…

That’s the whole point, rebound. If you stand for something, you aren’t trying to “figure out what the public wants” because those things change. Women should have the right to control their own bodies and any party with an ideology that cares about human rights and bodily autonomy would support this regardless of how…

This sort of defeatism has to stop. I’m not big on playing up how the Dems won the popular vote because it still means they lost the prize and it’s the prize that matters. But we do need to point out that the Reps barely won. Barely. And when you look at the demographic breakdown by region and the people who voted vs…

Yeah, exactly. What does obstruction get you? Well apparently control of Congress, control of the military, control of the presidency, control of the next few Supreme Court appointments, control of tax policy, etc.

On the contrary. It’s an actual political tactic that has played a major role in things such as labor rights, abolition of slavery, dismantling Jim Crow and Apartheid, etc. Obstruction for the sake of playing party politics might be useless, but obstruction with an actual goal is actually very powerful. It’s one way…

I don’t know where you were a few months ago, but there were literally many discussions from DNC leadership about whether or not the Dems should compromise on abortion rights in order to attract certain demographics that vote Rep mostly because of that issue. Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders both said that we have to…

Until they leave their party, they can fuck themselves. How can any of them have enough sense to realize it was wrong of their party to attempt to strip away health insurance from millions of people but still go along with them in other things? And fuck John McCain. Maybe his impending death has him worried if he…