I'm a Woman and I Will Vote for the Best Feminist for President: Bernie Sanders

[RiverLover]

I won’t vote against Hillary Clinton because she’s female, but I don’t intend to vote for her because I am. We need more fundamental changes in this country

byRoseAnn DeMoro
2/9/2016



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I am the executive director of the largest nurses union in the US: my members are overwhelmingly female and, not by accident, we were the first large organization to endorse Sanders. Nurses recognized Sanders as one of their own as soon as he got into the race, because they, like he, believe that all people should be treated equally – especially when it comes to healthcare – regardless of race, gender or ability to pay.

So let’s stop the divisive rhetoric: young women, older women (and younger and older men), all have lots of reasons to vote for Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination, and the Clinton camp doesn’t get to define for us the appropriate way to live up to our feminist ideals.

The Clinton campaign has tried to elevate the importance of gender above all other considerations – but if the goal is a woman qua woman, then we all should have been delighted with the fine work of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, regardless the harm suffered by so many as a result of her policies.

We’re not. And we cannot let the wealthy impose a Thatcherite economy on America with the next election, with the 1% continuing to hold the vast majority of wealth in the US.

You cannot separate gender from race and class: racial and gender discrimination remain very real, incredibly widespread societal problems, impacting people’s daily lives in myriad ways, from law enforcement practices to hiring and promotion opportunities to pay inequities to a profit-focused healthcare system.

But the Sanders’ campaign’s fundamental pitch is for equality in all aspects in social, political, economic and personal life; the mass movement and “political revolution” that is so intrinsic to the Sanders campaign is the only way to successfully combat racial, gender, and class discrimination.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/09/im-woman-and-i-will-vote-best-feminist-president-bernie-sanders


Girl POWER!!!

GO Bernie!

[beam me up scottie]

1. Off to the Greatest!

[RiverLover]

2. Thanks fellow Feminist!!

She really tells it like it is! Love that!!

[roguevalley]

3. he's going to run the table and we'll help him. This old feminist is with you.

[RiverLover]

6. Woot! She's goin' rogue!

Lets hope you're right!!!!

[slipslidingaway]

4. "Sanders campaign is the only way to successfully combat racial, gender, and class discrimination" .

hats off to the nurses that stand by and stand up for patients all over the world!!!


"You cannot separate gender from race and class: racial and gender discrimination remain very real, incredibly widespread societal problems, impacting people’s daily lives in myriad ways, from law enforcement practices to hiring and promotion opportunities to pay inequities to a profit-focused healthcare system."

What a great statement and endorsement!

If anyone has had a family member with a long stay in the hospital then they know and appreciate what nurses give of themselves to help other patients and family members through difficult times.

I love that the very caring nurses are standing with Sanders!

[RiverLover]

7. +1 So well said!! /nt

[LWolf]

9. +1

[retrowire]

5. Absolutely. nt

[RiverLover]

8. *kick*

for US WOMEN

[moriah]

10. Hmm, so this is the lady behind the one SuperPAC that ran the million in pro-Bernie ads.

FWIW, I think VERY differently about a SuperPAC formed by union than I do about one formed by Karl Rove running attack ads against Clinton (specifically echoing Bernie's themes and type of ads, which could either be to damage Hillary or to make people think he's running a far more negative campaign than he is to divide the Party).

Nor do I think Priorities USA Action, where $14 of the $17 million from "securities" type companies or employees (half of that from George Soros), in Hillary's "campaign committee plus PAC" numbers comes from, is running negative ads against Sanders -- they've been running them on every Republican candidate and then saying they think Hillary is their pick. But they've spent far less on pro-Hillary ads than the much-smaller nurses SuperPAC spent on pro-Bernie ads, so it looks like their funds are capital that will go to the eventual nominee no matter what, and attack the GOP. They are endorsing Hillary now, but they will spend most of their money in the General.

The enormous list of PACs that have spent outside money against Hillary shown in one of those lists is interesting (and the amount, at least four million compared to the one Conservative PAC that ran heavy ads against Bernie as well as heavy ads for a NH Senate candidate), as well as those that have run ads endorsing her. NARAL, Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, the League of Conservation Voters, SEIU...

Of course, all of those PACs currently endorsing Hillary will rally around the nominee, too, if Bernie wins.