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Not for that reason.
7 Jun 2019 10:06I really don't want to see Elizabeth Warren win the Dem primary.
She does grate me the wrong way and I can't stand listening to her speak, but I do, mostly, like her ideas. I don't think many of them have a chance in hell of becoming reality, but sure. We can try, and hopefully we end up better than where we otherwise would be.
Unlike the Sanders campaign, who truly should not be talking about "unelectable" when he couldn't even win the primary, I don't think the whole DNA thing will hurt her. It was stupid and wrong, and she does have some apologizing to do to the Native community, but that isn't the reason for my hard no. Neither is her pandering for the RatFucker's supporters by saying that she thought the DNC had rigged the primary in 2016.
It was learning that she'd been a Republican all the way through to the mid-90s. When she was in her in mid-40s.
Just fucking no.
This is very different from teen Hilary Clinton being a republican in high school.
It's not that I don't think that people can't make mistakes, or change. I do.
This one, however, is difficult to ignore.
She changed, she said, because she saw through the GOP bullshit on business and their whole fiscal conservative economic lie.
This troubles me because la la la, what about the fact that the GOP has been standing for social backwardness and hatred for a while now? She won't say if she voted for Reagan... the man responsible for destroying a (small) sense of "all in this together as Americans", replacing it with "me me me, and my white friends", and elevating greed to a virtue.
The social damage in terms of racism, misogyny, and homophobia done by Republicans since Reagan's election, social damage that is still ongoing, is monumental. They've harmed the most vulnerable, and seemed to delight in doing it. They ignored the AIDS epidemic and allowed a community to be devastated. They pushed anti-abortion policies that hurt women, and with the global gag rule, they extended their hatred of women and the reach of the damage to women around the world.
The lack of compassion towards marginalized groups frightens me. This was not some youthful callousness, she was a supporter of that party and its cruelty into her mid-forties, long after she should have known better. Did she silence her compassion in favor of her pocketbook for all those decades, or is she faking her compassion now? As long as she thought Republicans were good for the economy, good for the fucking markets, she was willing to, what? just not see? the social damage, to take advantage of her privilege and look away?
This I cannot understand and I cannot forgive.
She does grate me the wrong way and I can't stand listening to her speak, but I do, mostly, like her ideas. I don't think many of them have a chance in hell of becoming reality, but sure. We can try, and hopefully we end up better than where we otherwise would be.
Unlike the Sanders campaign, who truly should not be talking about "unelectable" when he couldn't even win the primary, I don't think the whole DNA thing will hurt her. It was stupid and wrong, and she does have some apologizing to do to the Native community, but that isn't the reason for my hard no. Neither is her pandering for the RatFucker's supporters by saying that she thought the DNC had rigged the primary in 2016.
It was learning that she'd been a Republican all the way through to the mid-90s. When she was in her in mid-40s.
Just fucking no.
This is very different from teen Hilary Clinton being a republican in high school.
It's not that I don't think that people can't make mistakes, or change. I do.
This one, however, is difficult to ignore.
She changed, she said, because she saw through the GOP bullshit on business and their whole fiscal conservative economic lie.
This troubles me because la la la, what about the fact that the GOP has been standing for social backwardness and hatred for a while now? She won't say if she voted for Reagan... the man responsible for destroying a (small) sense of "all in this together as Americans", replacing it with "me me me, and my white friends", and elevating greed to a virtue.
The social damage in terms of racism, misogyny, and homophobia done by Republicans since Reagan's election, social damage that is still ongoing, is monumental. They've harmed the most vulnerable, and seemed to delight in doing it. They ignored the AIDS epidemic and allowed a community to be devastated. They pushed anti-abortion policies that hurt women, and with the global gag rule, they extended their hatred of women and the reach of the damage to women around the world.
The lack of compassion towards marginalized groups frightens me. This was not some youthful callousness, she was a supporter of that party and its cruelty into her mid-forties, long after she should have known better. Did she silence her compassion in favor of her pocketbook for all those decades, or is she faking her compassion now? As long as she thought Republicans were good for the economy, good for the fucking markets, she was willing to, what? just not see? the social damage, to take advantage of her privilege and look away?
This I cannot understand and I cannot forgive.
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