DNC chairman aims for diversity with delegate nominations

[angrychair]

196. With all due respect

I’m not willing to compromise on human rights. Democrats already have to fight republicans for every square inch of ground on human rights, we should not be fighting or worrying about Democrats too. We obviously don’t have the willingness or inclination to fight for basic human rights on two fronts.

Its anti-choice not “pro-life”. We should not have to worry about a Democrat that coud or would vote with other anti-choice Democrats and republicans to limit or take choices (like birth control or other healthcare decisions) from a women and her care providers.

Why do we feel it necessary to nominate or endorse an anti-choice candidate? The “they’re the only one” argument is weak. We as a Party should be talking, recruiting and advocating, that is how we get better candidates.
The “it’s the only candidate that will get elected in the general because of the makeup of the district” is weak as well. The problem is not that they can’t get elected, it’s that we can’t or won’t make the case for it and/or are not willing to stand up for what we believe.
The worse of them all, the “it’s only on this one subject, otherwise they are liberal” sorry, the willingness or inclination to rip basic rights away from human beings means, by definition, they are not liberal Democrats. Basic human rights are nonnegotiable.

I’m dwelling on the women’s rights issues but I feel just as unequivocally about LGBTQ rights and the rights of PoC as well as education.

I don’t give a shit what Sanders opinions are, my politics are not tied to him or any other specific politician. I hate the term “identity politics”. These are not “identity politics” but human rights.

Let’s also be clear that wanting or inclination to take rights away from women or the LGBTQ or PoC is based on ignorance.
Either a belief in Bronze and Iron Age fairytales or an inability or unwillingness to understand basic scientific concepts (as an example: a zygote is not a baby). Which, in and of is not wrong, people can believe whatever they want but when you decide to turn your religious beliefs or scientific ignorance into law in order to force others to comply with them, that is unacceptable.