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In reply to the discussion: I've, and most of us who have been here for quite sometime realize one thing........ [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Please look at the context. There was a post that asserted, "I hear very little issue advocacy from those folks." I refuted that post by citing just some of the instances of issue advocacy that had been made by "those folks" (taking that imprecise phrase as referring generally to people who supported Bernie Sanders and/or who sometimes criticize some Democrats as being too conservative).
Your first paragraph is an attack on people who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton in the general. Take it up with them. I voted for her. Nothing in my post (which refuted a lie about progressive Democrats) suggests otherwise.
That's also the response to the first half of your second paragraph. I state a list of policy preferences. You completely distort that into "a laundry list of demands" and address your comments to people who won't vote for a candidate they deem imperfect. It's become far too common on DU that any assertion of a policy position anywhere to the left of Joe Manchin is immediately assailed as a demand. That's a complete non sequitur.
Finally, you write, "I notice the one thing not on the list ...is anything having to do with social justice or human rights." If you had managed to read my entire post, you would have found: "I've deliberately omitted matters on which there's general agreement within the Democratic Party...." I think that includes most or all of the social justice/human rights agenda. For example, in the past, it wasn't unknown for prominent Democrats to oppose marriage equality on the grounds that marriage was a sacred bond between a man and a woman. By now, fortunately, most of those Democrats have left office or have changed their position.