2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie is 110% right poor people don't vote [View all]Bohemianwriter
(978 posts)And her money from Wall Street to attack a liberal, you're not a liberal.
When you support a candidate who eats at the same trough as republicans, then you are not a liberal.
IF you supported Hillary in any way before 2013 when she was against equal rights for LGBTQ people, and support her stance now, that makes you a flip flopper and panderer. Not a liberal.
If you use terms "I'm not a marxist though" as an argument for not voting for Bernie, you are using a RW argument, and not a liberal one.
If you are for perpetual wars, "Patriot" Act, illegel invasions, support for military juntas, then vote Hillary. But it certainly doesn't make you a liberal.
If you support "Super-predator" remarks on inner city kids (as dog-whistle for black kids), you are not on the side with the AA community, but supports oppressive laws to disenfranchise thjat base.
If you support TPP, like Hillary does, then you are not a liberal.
A liberal is more than an empty term you can pin yourself with at convenience when the substance of the policies you supprt re not liberal.
If you support money in politics, like Citizens United (in which Hillary is utilising to the maximum right now to pay internet trolls to spread her misinformation and run campaigns to contradict each other - anti-gun in Connecticut, and pro-gun in Pennsylvania)
When you demonize fellopw democrats as communists, while supporting RW policies in reality, that makes you a DINO and a republican at heart.
"Commie" Bernie went to the strikers. Capitalist Hillary wines and dines with the people who exploits the workers on strike for profit.
The "purity test" lies in the substance of actual policies supported. Not terms that DINOs are watering down to make it fit the capitalist narrative. (who I presume you would think are better citizens than some poor black kid who deals drugs to make a living in an empoverished neighbourhood).
What kills me, is that people who call themselves Capitalist, are not a part of the capitalist class. They are suckeredn in to vcoting against their own interests in a hope they will be a part of that class. Being a capitalist, means you have extra funds to gamle with on the market, or live off other people's work as a CEO, owner or stock holder.
If you are a wage slave, you are not a Capitalist, but just a small insignifant part that holds the system up, and yourself down. You're nothing but a brick in the wall to keep the fatcats on top happy and content with the tax cuts, their subsidies, their war profiteering and their bailouts that you pay for with your tax dollars. Anyone who works in this system is nothing but a brick in the wall. Bernie seeks to break that wall.