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Dems2002

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5. Where is he "being destoryed?"
Tue Jul 21, 2015, 01:15 AM
Jul 2015

Confrontation isn't destruction...unless Sanders has feet of clay. There was a guy a few years ago who talked passionately about economic justice...while having major clay feet, and I am glad he dropped out prior to the California primary in 2008.

I do not think Bernie is Edwards whatsoever. But if he is unwilling to be led by the young people he has specifically told are the point and his only chance of success...then there is a problem we'd all be better off learning now rather than later.

It is shocking to me to see Democrats complain about confrontation and agitation. That is movement politics. It has never been pretty. And our need to make it so is how we are controlled By the MSM.

They were impolite because politeness gets jack shit. I am sorry you prefer your black people bowing and scraping and saying yes'em while doffing their caps and getting drenched in shit. I am glad that there are strong, young people agitating and saying fuck you. Even to Bernie Sanders. Because what have you done for me lately is a legitimate question. As is a demand to be front and center to recognize that this systemic racism crap needs to be addressed in his platform.

For the new Civil Rights Teams that have sprung up in the wake of Ferguson, this isn't about Bernie, it is about them. And that is as it should be. That is how we all should be. We do not need some messiah. We need a movement.

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