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In reply to the discussion: Democrats Willing to Fund Pro-Life Candidates to Win Back Congress [View all]BainsBane
(54,984 posts)That those who pretended to have an aversion to making compromises are eager to throw away the rights and economic survival of women and their children.
It also proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that the rhetoric about poverty and economic equality was empty. When people promote something that has been proved to result in much higher poverty rates for a majority of the population, they obviously don't give a shit about poverty or economic equality.
It proves to me that "economic equality" was never meant to apply to anyone but a minority demographic who already earns well above the national median. Of course that isn't equality at all.
There is no evidence that such a position wins elections. That we see some adopt it so easily under the transparent EXCUSE that it will create "wins' tells me that the goal all along has to be relegate women to second class citizenship and greater poverty. It tells me people who claimed the party wasn't "progressive" enough for them to give them their votes actually resent the party because it has failed to center them and throw away the rights and lives of the overwhelming majority of Americans.
Your poll doesn't provide anything approaching reasonable options. It takes a priori the assumption that abandoning support for the basic rights of over half the population, a great majority of Democratic voters, and the economic survival of them and their children will "win." It takes an argument contrived to oppress the majority and pretends that it will win. Just how many Democratic women do you think will line up to vote for white male supremacy? There is nothing "winning" about such a push. The goal is subjugate the majority for the benefit of the few.
If all people care about is "winning," why don't they join the GOP? If they are so anxious to remake the Democratic Party to mirror wht the GOP and Trump prioritizes, white male rule, why not stick with original?
I don't want to one to hear ONE fucking word about poverty or economic equality from people pushing this shit ever again. They know the results of such a push is sharply increase poverty for women and children, the majority. They know it greatly increases death rates. So I say that if they are going to promote an agenda based on the subjugation of the many for their own benefit, they out to have the guts to say what they really want. But then they know that can't work in the Democratic party, so they obfuscate and gaslight.
It proves to me that all the angst about "progressives" not being able to vote for Clinton in the GE because she wasn't "progressive enough was a lie. Of course such a posture depending on refusing to read or listen to her policy positions. It is fitting that their first push is not against Wall Street of corporations but against women's rights, and along with them the lives and economic survival of 75 percent of the population.
And if said "progressives" actually cared about Democrats' winning, they might start by actually voting for them rather than engaging in a campaigns to drive voters away from the party. That they suddenly claim--with no evidence or even an effort to provide evidence--that taking away the rights of the majority Americans is a winning position doesn't pass the smell test.
And why should this group of men assume that Democrats voters--who are overwhelmingly women and people of color--will turn out to vote for their own subjugation? It is so devoid of logic it defies comprehension. There is one reason and one reason only for this push: the subjugation of the many for the benefit of a few.