DNC chairman aims for diversity with delegate nominations

[Ken Burch]

219. That is the response I've seen every time anybody mentions the words.

Even mentioning the words "economic justice" is always taken as code for "Bernie in '20", and as code for "social justice doesn't matter-don't talk about racism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia and choice".

There's an insistent implication that we can be for economic justice, OR social justice, but for some reason we can never be truly for BOTH.

Whatever anybody thinks about any particular public figures in or near the party, what purpose is served by hanging on to those assumptions?

And by assuming that supporters(or past supporters) of any particular public figure on the progressive side of politics can't be assumed to be trustworthy THEMSELVES on that issue?

If folks are going to say "don't refight the primaries&quot which is a fair and proper and logical request, given that the primaries were settled over a year ago), they need to stop using the worst and most unnecessary talking points from those primaries. They need to accept that, wherever the candidates were, the supporters of both major candidates are UNITED in backing a passionately anti-oppression, anti-institutional bigotry position, and move past this "you're NOT on our side!" thing.

And the best way to make sure that candidates from 2016 who some find objectionable do NOT run again is to make sure that there are people in the 2020 race who represent the best of what each of those former candidates were about while avoiding what was objectionable about any former candidate-in this case, find a candidate who embraces social justice AND economic justice, and who admits that we don't need to CHOOSE between those two things.