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Wednesday, 20 January 2016
quote [ The Vermont senator?s political imagination is active against plutocracy, but why is it so limited against white supremacy? ]
This is the real problem with the left. Not the refusal to give a platform to the right, but the refusal to accept incrementalism and do the work necessary to improve the world. We sabotage our allies if they refuse to take up our own pet causes.
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raphael_the_turtle said @ 10:26pm GMT on 21st January
You can have flaws, you can even make mistakes over your lifetime, it's about what you say and making sure it's backed up by what you're doing.
Using Bernie as an example, as I've said, he's practically a centrist compared to the rest of the world, but a leftist in the US. But here's the important thing, not only is he trying to pull the nation back to the left, he's genuine, I trust him. His behavior and history is congruent with what he says he believes and what we wants to do. He claims billionaire money is corrupting our democracy and then doesn't take money from billionaires. He's spent his lifetime fighting for other people and his character reflects that. Even people that don't agree with him often come to admit that he's a genuine man. To me, that's not settling for the lesser of two evils, that's a step towards good.
raphael_the_turtle said @ 10:27pm GMT on 21st January
You can have flaws, you can even make mistakes over your lifetime, it's about what you say and making sure it's backed up by what you're doing.
Using Bernie as an example, as I've said, he's practically a centrist compared to the rest of the world, but a leftist in the US. But here's the important thing, not only is he trying to pull the nation back to the left, he's genuine, I trust him. His behavior and history is congruent with what he says he believes and what we wants to do. He claims billionaire money is corrupting our democracy and then doesn't take money from billionaires. He's spent his lifetime fighting for other people and his character reflects that. Even people that don't agree with him often come to admit that he's a genuine man. To me, that's not settling for the lesser of two evils, that's a step towards good.
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raphael_the_turtle said @ 10:26pm GMT on 21st January
You can have flaws, you can even make mistakes over your lifetime, it's about what you say and making sure it's backed up by what you're doing.
Using Bernie as an example, as I've said, he's practically a centrist compared to the rest of the world, but a leftist in the US. But here's the important thing, not only is he trying to pull the nation back to the left, he's genuine, I trust him. His behavior and history is congruent with what he says he believes and what we wants to do. He claims billionaire money is corrupting our democracy and then doesn't take money from billionaires. He's spent his lifetime fighting for other people and his character reflects that. Even people that don't agree with him often come to admit that he's a genuine man. To me, that's not settling for the lesser of two evils, that's a step towards good.
