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In reply to the discussion: Im so glad the calls for unity have prevailed [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)What I've argued for since November is that, whoever we nominate, our platform should be more or less Sanders on economics, Hillary, NARAL, Dolores Huerta and BLM on social justice issues, and a lot less military intervention on foreign policy. We could pretty much nominate anybody and win with that program.
Yet every time I called for an approach like that after the election, suggested that kind of a unity program, I was implicitly accused of attacking Hillary, covertly campaigning for Bernie or, most absurdly of all, of calling for the party to abandon social justice and focus on the interests of wealthy white men-when it wasn't doing any of those things or anything remotely similar to them.
Why is it so hard to accept that not every discussion, not ever question, is Bernie v. Hillary?-that, in fact, at this stage, that rivalry is the past, rather than the future?