General Discussion

The point about white privilege:
More specifically, it has to do with white people who say “they don’t understand why PoC make an issue out of this” just because you are not experiencing or understand that it’s racism from your perspective doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

I would also go back and look at my point about the excuses we make in choosing a candidate.
My point is that Democrats, from grassroots up through state parties and the DNC, can and should do a better job is the selection process.
By the time we are voting in November, yes it’s to late. The points I’m making are about an continuous process to ensure the candidates we put on the ballot meet our standards, not my standards but the Party’s standards to support things like Women’s rights or the rights of LGBTQ to wed and adopt children and to be treated like any other married or divorced couple.
Lastly, the “it’s only one issue and one Democrat” has come back to haunt us and that complacency will hurt us going forward as we become more jaded and soft on core beliefs of human rights.
It’s only one in your district, one in someone else’s and another somewhere else, until we have become jaded and dismissive of these issues and a vote to limit a human right comes up in the House, and it only needs a couple of Democrats to vote to pass it and Dems happily voted those people into office.
No, I’m not saying vote for the republican, I’m saying we as Democrats should be doing everything we can to ensure we are never in a position to have to vote for two anti-choice candidates or anti-LGBTQ candidate. Why? Because this isn’t a fluff issue, it is basic human rights and either they matter or they don’t, there is no in between.