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Showing Original Post only (View all)Convince me to stay a liberal. [View all]
Sanders was my last hope for liberalism. He was my last hope that maybe a liberal could make a difference, or at least convince people that the current system is not 1working.
But then I see shit like in this thread: this (alao my response: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1280&pid=77882) and I am totally ready to give up on liberalism entirely. I am done with the falsehoods, the pretension, the hypocrisy. I am done. Simply done.
Sanders isn't going to fix crap with supporters like this. (And Clinton is far worse, btw.) His movement, while it strikes at the heart of white america, is nothing when it comes to real transformatiom.
It does not embrace and center on black lives, or women's lives, or trans lives. His movement is about recreating an America that never existed. His movement is full of shit. I wouldn't say that except for the fact that almost every white person in Seattle that I've talked that supports him doesn't care at all about BLM.
I like Sanders. I think he gets it. But his movement doesn't.
If I don't vote for him, I'm done. I'm voting for the most left candidate, period. I couldn't care less about the Democratic Party. It has no meaning to me. It's a party that has fought for racism, for privilege, for the oppressors rather than the oppressed.
I'm done with it. It's time for radical solutions.
Convince me not to give up.
This is asking a hell of a lot from people who who have been asked far too much of already. But I really don't want to be done with the current system. The alternative is kinda crap. Revolution sucks. But I'm on the verge of becoming revolutionary, or at least close to it. So please, convince me not to abandon liberalism.
I want to believe.