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In reply to the discussion: The inevitable Hillary will lead to President Rand Paul. [View all]2banon
(7,321 posts)I don't see that these specific items are on the 'top of the list' for progressives, really.
The range of importance over and above the issues you mention that are important to you are at the top of the list for progressives too and have been forever.. but it's not as if they're just 'stand alones' either.
Progressives recognize the interconnectedness of all these issues.. peeling away at the onion to get at the root causes of inequality and injustice tends to reveal certain dynamics with regard to power structures at play, if you will, the underpinnings and institutionalization of class/race/gender socio-economic inequalities we've been struggling for so long to overcome.
In other words, it's not Marijuana initiatives that's so damn important to us, its the DRUG WAR itself, a direct cause of an inordinate number of Blacks and Poor people locked up in the Prison Industrial Complex, and oh by the way the NSA is connected to that too, despite the so called "national security protocols". And we can go on and on.
Our party, which we've been staunch members of for all of our lives needs a certain level of "enlightenment" shall we say, a certain level of commitment to the fight for socio-economic equality that we haven't seen in decades. Cuz, the status quo just isn't working.
Sorry didn't mean to get off on a tangent..