Bernie or Bust is privilege? Nonsense
Utter bunk, and that's putting it mildly.
Bernie or Bust rejects the status quo. Maybe where one has the freedom to risk upsetting the apple cart, while the rest of us seem to have less at stake can seem selfish. Don't rock the boat! Security first, then progress. I can maybe see that. Maybe but... No. Here's where they're wrong:
The status quo is not as secure as you think it is. In fact, unless you are part of the very top in terms of wealth/power, the status quo is failing you. The longer it continues, the worse it gets.
The privileged want to keep the status quo. People with privilege want to keep things exactly the way they are, or roll it back even more. They are invested in inequality
So, no. It is the other way around, Bernie or Bust is the opposite of privilege. Somebody's got to take a stand. (Full disclosure: I have not taken any pledge or committed to withholding my vote. I simply defend B or B's right to vote as they see fit.)
Or, put another way, read a post of mine from a few weeks ago:
Connecting the message of economic populism to social justice concerns
From Venn to Circle: Economic Populism and Social Justice for POC
( http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511397357 )
Let me break it down for you:
The first priority of business is to make a profit.
The first priority of government is supposed to be to serve its people.
When big business “merges” with government, its priorities take over. People no longer matter, then democracy starts to become more perception than reality.
We know this. But, hang on…
PEOPLE ARE NOT COMMODITIES! Black people know this better than anyone, seeing that this is how most of us ended up here on the continent in the first place.
The wealthy class needs “others” to be a peasant class because that’s how we were taught. “I get mine, you get none” or the softer version, “I get more, you get less.”
But how have the people up top kept this trick going for so long?
Easy. They break our legs and then call us lame, and people believe them. They blame the poor for being poor, like they had nothing to do with it. Please. They use bigotry, in all its forms, to keep people down.
But now? Their wealth has expanded so much, there aren’t enough poor black folks to support it. Not enough poor white folks either, they need MORE. They need new “others,” so what did they do?
They broke up the unions.
Now blue collar middle class folks are part of the peasant class. They are getting a little taste of what poor blacks been feeling for generations and they don't like it. Nobody likes it.
See, structural racism secures this model that keeps people commodified, income inequality is a result of that model. Now that the pool of the people getting screwed has grown, we need to come together.
The working poor getting fucked and the poc that have always been getting fucked should be natural allies. They should have been allies a long time ago but now… we REALLY got to do this. Our government has been taken over by our “friends” in big business. Nobody is safe anymore, not even the semi-rich. They will be next if we don't put a stop to it. Everyone has a dog in this fight.
Bottom line:
The commodification of people – when business merges with government and profit comes before people – is a terrible model for everyone.
Long held patterns of exploitation of poc (from slavery to now) for profit is still exploitation.
Newer patterns of exploitation of middle class whites for profit is still exploitation.
It’s the exact same model.
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for the rich people, they're just being spoiled and privileged, and thinking only of their broke-assed selves!
Who will think of the billionaires? Jeez, get with the program 
You're welcome.
