Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: What do my fellow Sanders supporters say to this? [View all]LiberalArkie
(15,713 posts)the Presbyterians, just about all faiths except the southern Baptists and the Pentecostals as they were mainly southern faiths. Hence racist faiths. When you look at pictures of protest marches back then you always saw nuns and priests right front and center. It was the Nixon southern strategy that separated the Progressives from the religious faiths. It was the abortion fight that continues it because of the way they have framed it and the Progressives have never re-framed it.
I think it is wrong to try and separate out groups from the movement. The progressives have the high ground by being united. If we start to discard the moral high ground to just to win. What have we won? That is where the party has been. That is why the wealthy control both parties because the Democratic party decided to win at any cost. I believe we can take everything if we take the moral high ground again like we used to do. All of us win or none of us do.
The Democratic party in the last few decades have thrown labor, people of color, the poor, the sick, the people at the bottom under the bus just to gain power. We elected a black man. How much did the help the blacks? None really. If women think that just by electing a woman that they will get the ERA passed or rules changed to benefit them, that are being fooled like the blacks were fooled by electing Obama. Obama has done some good, but not what people expected. I think that is why the youth and the people who have no one on their side support Bernie. He is our last hope. I think it is up to the kids to decide if they want a change, they are the ones who can pull it off.
I have a general rule that I never alert on any one, if I am in a jury I vote "Leave it alone". Sometimes it turns my stomach to do that, but everyones (well most everyone) viewpoint is important. A lot of the time it shows how much a fool they are. But it is getting bad around here lately. I have been finding solace over on the reddit/r/sanders group. I guess the group that stated it all.