This hollow claim that Hillary Clinton, with her history of race-baiting, referring to “gang members” as “super predators”..is the more progressive candidate when it comes to race... It’s so fucking stupid. I hope that recent critique by Michelle Alexander begins to gain traction.

I don’t have much to add, because I agree with everything you’ve written here. Maybe I’m a bit doom-and-gloom about Hillary, but the Dems usually do a good job fucking these things up. Also, given the current state of the GOP, whichever candidate ends up winning will have the benefit of extremely low expectations.…

I voted for Obama, twice. The first time I was optimistic, but not particularly invested. When he started almost immediately appointing people like Larry Summers, I realized not that much was going to change. The second time it was basically to vote against Mitt Romney.

Right? Bernie’s views on gun control (which I find reasonable) are probably more “pragmatic”, since they seem to be much more in line with that of the rest of the country.

Right??? You’ve articulated something that I felt, but that I didn’t really convey well in my post. Thank you!

I don’t see it as being a far stretch of the imagination to see a President Clinton folding on something like, oh, I don’t know, defunding PP when Republicans inevitably hold the country hostage with a government shutdown. She’ll very logically explain that she would have liked to have fought for it, but she had to…

THIS. This need to be “practical” was the same line of reasoning used against voting for Obama.

Let’s also add: campagined hard for her husband’s crime bill, including dehumanizing “gang members” (hmm) as “superpredators.”

I think this album is seriously underrated!

Whaaat? Granted, I live within walking distance, but Baltimore Book Thing is Baltimore BEST THING.

Respectfully, this essay does a good job of explaining why he’s been able to accomplish quite a lot.

I honestly think the media narrative around this is mostly false. Perhaps you think otherwise. I don’t think sexism is OK, and it grosses me out when I see Sanders supporters using it, but among the people I know IRL, where it counts, I don’t see it on a regular basis. That’s about all I can do.

This article was much-discussed on my Facebook today, but the guy who took the cake was the 50-something white male who waded into a conversation of twenty and thirty year olds (male and female, mostly but not all white) to lecture us about how Sanders’s supporters “were taking a page from the MRA playbook.” An older…

Just another quick comment— my husband and I were discussing this a lot today (we both support Sanders), and he was able to scan twitter and easily come up with a bunch of anti-semetic tweets from Hillary supporters. (He’s jewish, so he knows the dog whistles.) Neither of us think this represents Hillary supporters—…

I’ve been meaning to read her for a while!

I just picked up one of her books at a free book exchange (shout out to Baltimore Book Thing!).

After my husband read this post he immediately was able to go on Twitter and find examples of Clinton supporters saying antisemetic stuff. (he’s Jewish so he knows what to look for.). Every group has their fringe weirdos. Plus the internet is full of shit-stirrers. It’s not fair use them to characterise either side.

Right, trolls gonna troll? News at 11. I wish we could move on and talk about policy.

I know some supporters are assholes, but that’s mostly because people are assholes. Like I’ve said in a few other threads, I have had HRC supporters be nasty to me. I agree that everyone should try their best to be civil. I just honestly think this “berniebro” thing is much exaggerated. Very few people I know IRL who…

I’ve seen sexist stuff online, but I honestly think the “berniebro” meme is overblown. Instead of discussing actual policy on this blog, we are dicussing the behavior of a few obnoxious trolls. We could be discussing Erica Garner’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders, but insead of giving voice to woman of color, we are…