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user-inactivated  ·  3040 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Leftists Should Have No Problem Voting For Hillary Clinton

    I refuse to help perpetuate in any way the system that allows someone like Trump to have power over another person

They're all like Trump, Trump is just not very good at it. You want to fight the good fight, join an activist group of whatever flavor appeals to you. Elections aren't revolutionary, they're about not getting worse and maybe, if you're lucky, pulling the Overton window a little further in your direction, and Sanders has done us all a disservice by leading people to believe a presidential election could ever be revolutionary.





b_b  ·  3040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    ...Sanders has done us all a disservice by leading people to believe a presidential election could ever be revolutionary.

Obama already did that. Not sure where you live or what it was like there, but in 2008 I was living in the ghetto, and I never saw it happier ever. Bums were out on the street high five-ing, people were walking around smiling, and there was an electricity in the air that's hard to describe. It didn't last long, but I'll admit that I thought for a moment that the 08 election was going to be a new awakening. I didn't support Obama in the primary, but I was sure happy when he was elected.

user-inactivated  ·  3040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And there was a lot of burnout once it was clear Obama wasn't going to deliver.