Is it even possible to have a 'superpac" and still be genuinely progressive?

[Ken Burch]

Given that big donors always insist that progressive values be diluted down to nothing(especially on the economic issues that affect most of us more than anything else) how could it be?

[Uncle Joe]

1. Honestly I don't see how, you can't take the mafia's money and believe

they don't expect something in return.

Thanks for the thread, Ken Burch.

[juxtaposed]

2. from what i've heard bernie dosen't even have a back pak

[Ken Burch]

3. He probably know how to spell it, though.

[juxtaposed]

4. i'm missing your point?

[Ken Burch]

8. reread the last word of the title of your last post. n/t.

[juxtaposed]

9. u are f$#@king kidding ,, u need something else to look at!

[Ferd Berfel]

5. NO! next question

[SoLeftIAmRight]

6. "cut it out"

Somebody thinks that will stop you in your tracks

[brooklynite]

7. Because wealthy people are always conservative and the working class are always liberal?

Simplified platitudes make life easier I guess....

[Ken Burch]

11. A few wealthy people can be liberal on things that don't threaten their power or privilege.

Things that can be important, but not transformative. Things that are righteous but essentially safe in terms of power relations.

(as Clinton supporter Katha Pollitt pointed out, this is part of the reason why the fight for LGBTQ rights, even though it is far from over, seem to be doing better than the defense of reproductive choice. LGBTQ rights aren't threatening to wealthy male power in the same way that reproductive choice, without which no form of feminism or any meaningful existence for women outside the home, let alone any possibility of the smashing of the glass ceiling, is even remotely possibly, is.)

But none of the ones who write big checks to superpacs can ever have Bobby Kennedy passion about things like poverty or racism or(at times) class.

Especially none of the rich people who support trade globalization on corporate terms.

[onenote]

10. Folks were extolling CREDO here recently, and they have a superpac

There is a lot of misunderstanding about what a super pac is and isn't.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/bernie-sanders-super-pac/420930/