2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Where is Bernie Sanders on Gender Justice? [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)IF someone has a problem with an actual position or action Sanders has taken, that's a different matter. But this is not about that.
First of all, there are a whole of feminists who are actually familiar with Sanders who do not have those concerns. They are totally comfortable that he will be -- as he has always been -- totally supportive and active for all women's issues. (Much of the pushback defending Sanders on this thread has been from women who are very active in these issues.)
Frankly, I think those who claim to be "concerned" either have not bothered to look up his record and background, or they are so committed to another candidate they have a blind spot...Or they are so invested in the possibility of the first woman president that Sanders doesn't matter.
I usually try not to be conspiratorial, but some of it seems like a deliberate attempt to raise phony "red flags" about Sanders in a classic Rovian tactic of using a candidate's strengths against them. ("Kerry isn't a war hero. He was a coward."