Fighting Wall Street and corporate power does NOT mean abandoning the fight against bigotry.

[Ken Burch]

We now have the only presidential candidate in the race who fights for working people and the poor against the 1%. Some people, based only on a random internet image that had nothing to do with Bernie's actual campaign, have come to the conclusion that fighting against Wall street/corporate domination of American life somehow means NOT fighting with equal passion against racism, homophobia, transphobia, and sexism.

This is absurd.

Martin Luther King's campaign was a fight against bigotry AND against economic exploitation of working people. A Bernie Sanders candidacy(not comparing Bernie to MLK, so relax, folks)would be the same.

Neither Bernie nor anyone in his campaign is calling for an end to the struggle for"social justice". Nor is it a message that women, LGBTQ people, and people of color do not matter and should give up fighting for their rights.

Bernie's campaign will fight for justice on ALL fronts...against ALL forms of injustice, social AND economic.

If you don't support the guy, fine...but it's totally bogus to accuse his campaign of offenses it is not going to commit.

We can fight against ALL the wrongs...we don't have to privilege some and ignore others.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Hear, Hear!

OTOH, Ken Burch, I haven't seen Sanders tweet ANYTHING this week and where is his AVATAR???

I'm kidding, or, no, I'm snarking.

Some campaigns are just so sad.

[liberal_at_heart]

2. There does seem to be a segment of Democrats that think we cannot fight social injustice and

economic injustice at the same time. You are right. That is absolutely absurd. You cannot have social justice without economic justice. Therefore, we must fight both at the same time.

[AgingAmerican]

3. That is a common ploy here

The ol' "can't walk and chew bubblegum at the same time" meme. The GOP uses it constantly to attack Obama.

[Zorra]

4. It very clearly does. Why can't you people get it through your heads that

a candidate cannot possibly be for fighting Wall St. and fighting corporate control of government, and be for equal rights for everyone at the same time? Do you have some kind of a problem with thinking logically?!!?

Here:

If:

1) Maria is running for the Senate

And:

2) Maria is for fighting Wall St.

Then:

3) Maria cannot be for human rights or any form of social justice.

It's simple logic. Why can't you leftists understand this?




Any questions?

[seabeyond]

5. a large part of the equation you are unaware of or totally ignore. a group states that if clinton

wins the nomination then they will not vote. that it is better to stay out of the election and let a repug in. it is THAT mentality, that we can only have a pure candidate that has us battling.

when you state that sanders will cover it all, you are right.

when people on du say that they cannot vote hillary in, then they are telling us our social issues do NOT matter. and they have verbally said as such.

the populist group has an op stating du should be changed to pu. that they should be to the dems what the teabaggers are to the repugs.

to me that is advocating a split in the party. that is saying that the supreme court doesnt matter. and that says to me, that girls and womens lives do not matter.

if people are going to jump into the argument, at the very least, know what the argument is on du.

when you see a poster state that social issue do not matter, are minor issues, are not the important issues, .... UNDERSTAND there are going to be progressive dems pissed off. and do not tell us that we are imagining things and getting riled over nothing.

we are not the one trying to split the party or lessen one persons issue over another

and i will add. it is mostly white men that are telling us how unconcerned they are with our social issues. men that have been dismissing womens and blacks issues for a good year or two.

[cali]

6. Bernie marched on Washington in 1963. He was a student organizer for SNCC

In other words, he has fought against bigotry and for civil rights, for almost his entire life. Look at his record on these issue.