2016 Postmortem

I assure you I am to the left of Sanders, Hillary, and you. I am a literal card carrying Communist. I was all for Bernie for most of the primary. How could someone running as a socialist lose me? Because you and your ilk do not think my vote matters. You think that people of color are just supposed to fall in line because Bernie is really good at shouting slogans and hitting all the progressive talking points. But how the fuck am I going to trust a guy who thinks people like me are the Confederacy? How the fuck am I going to trust a politician who tailored his message to affluent college kids, while treating people of color like an afterthought? How the fuck am I going to trust a movement who called us everything short of the "N" word whenever people of color challenged him in any way? If you had a damn fucking clue about how movements work, you would fucking KNOW movements are more than shouting the right slogans and drawing huge crowds (Occupy drew crowds too, how did that work out?)

I'm a leftist BECAUSE I am a black man in America, and no leftism worthy of the name will so utterly FAIL to speak to the needs and concerns of people of color in this country. Even Marx, a foreigner, identified the racial caste system as the linch(LYNCH)pin of the class struggle in America. But the white Jacobin/Intercept leftists gloss that over because they'd rather convince themselves that middle-class hipsters sipping Starbucks are the true revolutionary working class. Like, really, sit the fuck down. We rejected Bernie for a reason, and you're continuing to prove us right. You don't listen. You don't even attempt to talk to us, you just, like Bernie, say the exact same slogans and scripts over and over and over again, and then pat yourself on the back for accomplishing nothing but making POC think these "socialists" are just snake-oil salesmen, yet again. As if we haven't had clueless "leftists" coming down trying to sell "revolution" without a clue.

Honestly I'm well aware i'm talking to an ideological brick wall, but it's just so fucking maddening because people like you give leftism a bad name.