2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Privilege: Would your personal circumstances change if Bernie was President? [View all]dr60omg
(283 posts)What is more important to me than myself is my children. Yes there is a reality that I may benefit from a Sanders presidency: but, it is NOT about me! We do not have time for incrementalism or stasis. We are at a critical historic juncture.
Please also do not use the term Latino because it is not the same as being Hispanic. It also does not signify "immigrant." And, of course it depends on the group of people you speak about since everything is intersectional.
By the way I am 61 so it is not youthful idealism. It is not about social security but I do favor lifting the cap it is ludicrous that people stop paying into the system that earn over 118,000 dollars a year
It is not feminism since I am not into white bourgeois feminist ideas (see bell hooks and Melissa Alexander).
Please read the latest SCOTUS decision surrounding public unions that is significant.
Also please recognize that the people who benefitted most from affirmative action were middle class white women.
There was a time when the unions were strong that state colleges and universities were free or mostly free (see UC system, CCNY etc)
If, you think that something like climate change is not going to affect all people regardless of social, economic, racial, gendered, sexual region, religion cohorts you are not paying attention. So, yes having someone committed to the environment and who abhors frakking and that I can trust. And, that person is Sanders
The beautiful blue ball on which we reside does not have the time to wait ....