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In reply to the discussion: What message would we send if we quickly rejected Bernie and crowned HRC? [View all]BainsBane
(53,116 posts)You want to do away with elections? I am not engaged in the great and noble struggle of the 10 percent vs. the 1 percent. In fact, I don't give even a little shit about the imperious upper-middle class that goes around insulting the poor and people of color. I stand with the poor and subaltern, against the class project of white upper-middle and middle-class that works to subordinate the majority for their own economic benefit, while tossing out a few foodstamps to the poor to placate them.
I do not stand with people who talk about taking America back to the days of "real Democrats," when those Democrats also supported Jim Crow and the denial of rights to the majority of Americans. I stand against the elite who wants to return America to a time when their race and class prospered at the expense of the majority. I stand with the working class, the poor, and people of color--not the self entitled country club set who treats those groups with disdain. I stand against people who think they and they alone determine political priorities, who refer to African Americans as "uninformed" because they don't support their choice for a political position.
Anyone who so imperiously dismisses the rights of the majority to make their own political decisions and insults anyone who doesn't set everything aside to promote their own class interests is a side I want no part of. Sanders biggest liability is some of his supporters, and people like you are working assiduously to turn as many voters off as possible. No wonder you don't want elections. You merely want to substitute yourself and those exactly like you as the new political elite. You have no more concern for the lives of the majority than do the bankers, and your continual dismissal and insults demonstrate that.
I am not on the side of Goldman Sachs and the self-entitled elite, which is why I will never be on your side. That after all is what you want, isn't it? You can't possibly think that insulting people less privileged than yourselves is actually going to bring people to your cause. It only serves to exclude, which is precisely your goal.
I will not applying for membership in the country club. Instead, I stand with the help--where I came from--looking forward to the day when the self-entitled get their due.