Privilege and Sanders Supporters

[eclaires]

Probably a good read (despite being an opinion piece) for people on both sides even if it focuses more on Bernie supporters.

For many months, I have said I wouldn't vote for Bernie, but as it becomes more likely that Trump or Cruz will be the nominee, I'm not sure I would feel comfortable risking either of them winning by voting 3rd party. In a regular election year, where the electoral map would probably play out as usual, it would be easier since TN goes red immediately. I imagine that will be the same this year, but I would have to think long and hard about what I should do. I don't think I will have to make that decision but I've thought about it more recently when before I was just a pretty firm no.

qz.com/644985/privilege-is-what-allows-sanders-supporters-to-say-theyll-never-vote-for-clinton/?utm_source=atlfb

[WOT?*]

Thank you for posting this. I'm going to share to FB after I finish my cookie count (so my cookie mom doesn't see that I'm GBCN-ing. lol.) to target the couple UMC, white female Berners that I know will be at Saturday's caucus that just *might* see it on my page. As if any of my other pro-Hillary stuff made a difference. lol.

[heyjude]

Good read. If I hadn't banned myself from posting about the primary on FB, I would share this.

[maddiepaddy]

Thanks for posting, this is a good read.

I am a strong HRC supporter. But, I will faithfully march to my polling place and (somewhat) proudly vote for Bernie in the general if he somehow pulls it out and wins the nomination.

I'm hoping that the stubbornness about not supporting HRC (or Bernie for that matter) in the general will subside once we're faced with reality of who the actual contenders are. I think there's a lot of people who are still in deep denial that a Trump nomination is becoming more and more inevitable.

[2curlydogs]

"If you’re reviling Clinton for saying something racist and stupid in 1994 in favor of a crime bill that turned out to be a very bad idea, but you’re not reviling Sanders for actually using his political power to pass that very bad crime bill law, I want you to take a long, long think about why that is."

FUCKING STANDING OVATION GIF HERE

[jeaniebueller]

Mar 23, 2016 11:41:03 GMT -5 heyjude said:

Good read. If I hadn't banned myself from posting about the primary on FB, I would share this.

Will you at least post it on the S4P reddit?

[MrsAxilla]

Conservative copywriters, whoever you are, I applaud you for your success in taking a complete and total fabrication and successfully integrating it so far into the American consciousness that there are people who agree with nearly every policy position Clinton has today, yet will still claim that she’s “dishonest.” That’s some impressive chicanery, and I mean that.

[Gato]

I felt this way about Clinton when Obama was running for president, so I do get how emotion and excitement about a candidate can lead to "hating" another candidate who you feel falls so short.

I'm not proud of that thinking now. I'm a Clinton supporter this time around, but I did say semi-seriously, in my 3 hour wait to vote in the caucus, that H and I would leave the country if Trump was elected. I got called out by my friend, who reminded me that H and I are fairly well-off and white, and how awful it would be to just desert the country when it needed us most. I went home and talked about it with H, whose brother is black, and has suffered some fairly serious crap because of his race, and we put that little idea away for good. My friends are mostly hard-core Bernie types, but I believe they will see reason as well, once the sting of losing wears off.

[downtoearth]

Good read, but really, I just want to post this on FB more than the whole article (pretty pro-Bernie FB feed in my world):

I would support half a Snapple as the Democratic nominee rather than go back to the policies of Reagan or Bush.