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In reply to the discussion: I've been told my equal rights just aren't pragmatic [View all]lexington filly
(239 posts)97. Time for all women to form our own powerful
party? Have the two major parties fall all over themselves trying to gain our favor like they do corporations!
Corporations can give parties money but they need our votes. They've always divided and conquered us between the two parties.
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Amazing how some "progressives" are saying that we need to be practical about social justice...
hrmjustin
Apr 2017
#1
Very true. I think sometimes some of these purity progressives are just not what they claim to be.
hrmjustin
Apr 2017
#4
women's rights have ALWAYS had to take a back seat to everything and everyone else under
niyad
Apr 2017
#56
Very true. One would think we could find allies in the Black and GLBTQ communities
BlancheSplanchnik
Apr 2017
#79
Can't believe they're still pushing the idea that women and people of color are just incidental.
Squinch
Apr 2017
#12
It feels like we had climbed the branches and had the apple in our hands, and now we've fallen
Squinch
Apr 2017
#44
I agree with all of this. On the bright side, I do think that people are getting energized
Squinch
Apr 2017
#99
Well, it isn't economics for a "certain segment," unless that segment is 99 percent of americans.
JCanete
Apr 2017
#59
what? When talking about economics, women are not being excluded. By increasing
JCanete
Apr 2017
#74
Do you read the newspapers? Have you heard about this prominent leader on the left who is pushing
Squinch
Apr 2017
#52
I was just told that "money makes the world go around" when I made the same case.
boston bean
Apr 2017
#18
Bain, I am so upset at this. What part of WOMEN'S MARCH did they fail to understand?!
Hekate
Apr 2017
#21
There is nothing at all "progressive" about abandoning the rights of more than half the country.
Foamfollower
Apr 2017
#22
Did you see Krystal Ball (what an egocentric choice of names, BTW) on AM Joy this morning?
George II
Apr 2017
#25
k and r. I have been appalled by that thinking coming out of what are supposedly "progressive"
niyad
Apr 2017
#54
I am not on social media, but absolutely disgusted by some of the stuff that is reported here
niyad
Apr 2017
#57
Neither is democracy. As Shrub would intone, a dictatorship is a lot simpler.
no_hypocrisy
Apr 2017
#105
I was told that my concerns for peace and economic equality weren't pragmatic.
Jim Lane
Apr 2017
#118