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Related: About this forum"Today’s Thinkers and Activists Oppose Hillary Clinton"
The Case for Superdelegates Selecting Sanders
By Veena Trehan -
May 22, 2016
Todays Thinkers and Activists Oppose Her
The great raft of intellectuals, writers and activists deeply devoted to social justicelargely permanent outsiders uninterested in an administration joboverwhelmingly favor Sanders. Sure, the revolving door types who architected and championed unfettered globalization, free trade and so on favor Clinton. But we now need people of integrity to guide us as we cast off our current predatory models.
What do these leaders saythose who shone a spotlight on corruption, warned us of systemic oppression and pointed us in a better direction? The vast majority support Sanders. All have concerns about a Hillary presidency including The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander; MacArthur genius award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates; The End of Poverty author Jeffrey Sachs; documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, Chi-Raq director Spike Lee; political dissident Noam Chomsky; actress and activist Rosario Dawson; former State Senator Nina Turner; inequality expert Les Leopold; Professor Cornel West; former NAACP President Ben Jealous; civil rights activist Harry Belafonte; Capital in the 21st Century author Tom Piketty; long-time whistleblower Sy Hersh; Whats the Matter with Kansas? author Tom Frank; and pioneering feminist Bell Hooks.
These people who often speak unpleasant truths to power offered us prescient warnings we should have heeded and wise counsel we should have followed. They still offer a strong vision for a just societyone free of racism, militarism, poverty (and sexism) at the heart of our most important movements.
One can choose to cast away a politician embraced by millennials and independents, with fiercely loyal Democratic supporters, who has been approved by great thinkers. One can discard an uncharacteristically bold senator who has been screwed by a rigged system and sophisticated techniques of manipulation. Yet such a tremendously harmful act would aggravate the risk of a Trump presidency.
The fate of America lies with those who have not yet voted, who remain politically active and with the superdelegates. Ultimately, its the last who could be decisive. They should endorse now to help the Democrats regain the presidency and their leadership role. They should listen to political antenna, follow the ever-shifting center of the party and electorate, and endorse a broad vision that appealing to the mainstream. Such a pragmatic choice would also advance higher human ideals of freedom, truth, peace, justice and opportunity.
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http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/05/22/case-superdelegates-selecting-sanders/
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"Today’s Thinkers and Activists Oppose Hillary Clinton" (Original Post)
imagine2015
May 2016
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Maedhros
(10,007 posts)1. Sanders supporters are working for positive change.
Clinton supporters are working for a symbolic Presidency.