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KitSileya

(4,035 posts)
27. It is funny (more funny curious tan funny ha-ha, however)
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 01:55 PM
Aug 2015

that a candidate that has realized so thoroughly that trickle-down economics is a bunch of hooey that he made his platform almost exclusively based on refutation of it, so stubbornly believes in trickle-down social justice*. He seems to adamantly believe that if white cishet men get economic justice so that it spills over on minority groups, the same men will magically confer social justice on everyone else.



*Expression coined by Melissa McEwan

It isn't nice. stone space Aug 2015 #1
If those friends expect to get to the show, they need a ride from the friends they're trying MADem Aug 2015 #2
Do you think Bernie supporters would be less angry? Chemisse Aug 2015 #3
I don't think it mattered, the flavor of the detractors ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2015 #7
I'd add the Obama group into those comparisons. greatauntoftriplets Aug 2015 #9
And cross reference the 4 to the "I stand with Rand" thread ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2015 #10
In all likelihood. greatauntoftriplets Aug 2015 #12
I stand with Rand thread? gollygee Aug 2015 #18
You remember ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2015 #19
I'm afraid I don't remember gollygee Aug 2015 #20
You didn't miss much, except ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2015 #21
Oh, here ya go: freshwest Aug 2015 #32
you are brilliant. we knew. the was the first clue in for me, the people i was fighting. i checked seabeyond Aug 2015 #26
I'm not brilliant ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2015 #29
That was the first thing I noticed ismnotwasm Aug 2015 #43
Absolutely not gollygee Aug 2015 #17
Does anyone actually think that the candidates would have addressed racial justice without BLM? KitSileya Aug 2015 #4
O'Malley had to JustAnotherGen Aug 2015 #5
further, one can look at facts and not rely on opinion. since day one sanders declared, people have seabeyond Aug 2015 #25
It is funny (more funny curious tan funny ha-ha, however) KitSileya Aug 2015 #27
that was what knocked me on my ass three months ago. listening to sanders and processing it seabeyond Aug 2015 #28
Trickle-down social justice. kwassa Aug 2015 #39
Excellent vent - spot on analysis JustAnotherGen Aug 2015 #6
I've been listening to the radio show TWIB with the interview with Marissa Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #8
sanders is pandering to, reaching out to, working and middle class. ie, white. he states that. seabeyond Aug 2015 #24
Yeah, the Joe Lunchbox crowd. We've been talking about that in here. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #30
I hadn't heard all that audio! That is a hateful bunch there! I still think these are some of the freshwest Aug 2015 #33
I think people claiming the BLM protesters were "violent" are actively avoiding this radio interview Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #34
Most of all, let's not incite white fragility, especially in white liberals MrScorpio Aug 2015 #11
i have to tell you, the last couple months listening. has allowed such a progression of understandin seabeyond Aug 2015 #23
Spot on analysis. Thank you. kwassa Aug 2015 #13
Truth. brer cat Aug 2015 #14
With emphasis on the "non religious." pnwmom Aug 2015 #15
FrodosPet.. I love you! Cha Aug 2015 #16
Shhh! Let Bernie speak.... Stellar Aug 2015 #35
Right, Stellar. :( Cha Aug 2015 #36
Thank you! FrodosPet Aug 2015 #37
"Be strong, be consistent, and MAYBE someday people will wake up and get the sleepy out of their Cha Aug 2015 #38
as a woman i feel the same. sanders is my fathers age and i feel a pat on the head telling me seabeyond Aug 2015 #22
Um, no. blackspade Aug 2015 #31
I'll just drop this here. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #40
Alas, if you dropped it in GD: Primary or The Bernie Sanders group FrodosPet Aug 2015 #41
I know. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #42
"My God" ismnotwasm Aug 2015 #44
I died. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #45
Any day, I expect to read... greatauntoftriplets Aug 2015 #46
Right? Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #47
LOL! Bobbie Jo Aug 2015 #48
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