History of Feminism

A Washington Post article here, ThinkProgress article here, and those a rather limited perspectives, in my opinion. There's other things as well. His policies on police and racial issues are really pretty bad.

Sanders isn't addressing these issues either. He hasn't made them an integral focus of his campaign, equal to and inseparable from the issues of wealth and income inequality. He has not been willing to address the issues in a direct and honest manner. Frankly, there's a lot else that concerns me, and there's a number of reasons why I'm not supporting him.

I think that if you start considering more than just economic inequality, you move past capitalism. Sanders knows that, and I don't think he's willing to go that far.

However, Sander's record is markedly different from most Democrats. Clinton's is downright abysmal--she's a neo-liberal with extremely close ties to a number of major capitalist players. She is a privileged member of the economic elite, the epitome of Democratic Party establishment politics. Her policies would do far more to worsen these problems than the others. O'Malley is a progressive, but he supports establishment policies in the end, and I cannot see him as an active advocate for racial justice and a change in policing. He's one of the major problems with the Democratic Party on that issue, actually. He might be able to be forced through major struggle and the eventual uniting of the working class, like how the civil rights act was passed, but that's about as optimistic as I'd get (with the resistance these days, you need a lot more than that).

Sanders, despite his lack of attention to these issues in his campaign (and that is a major problem), has addressed those issues in policy far more than the other two. His support would not just be reliable, but active, if not extremely vocal. If you're going to vote for a Democrat (I don't care who you vote for), I don't understand why you would throw your support behind one of the others. The Black Lives Matter movement is alive and well still, and will not let him forget the problem of race. Nor will his supporters, who are diverse. Women's issues will be more of a challenge, as there is not a national movement for equality yet, like there is for racial issues. I think Clinton would address it more, but her policies would harm women. In many ways, it is going to become impossible for any of these candidates to avoid those questions.

If you're worried about actual policy, I don't know why you would choose anyone but Sanders. If you're convinced that it doesn't matter which candidate is elected (true to some extent, in my opinion, but also not a good thing), then I could see voting for Clinton--a woman as president would be a huge victory, contrary to the claims of some, much as Obama's victory was a milestone in US politics. It would be a very good thing to have her perspective as a woman, as well as having her focus (to the mild degree that she does) on women's issues.

But O'Malley makes no sense to me whatsoever.

(On edit: yes, I know the OP was about Sanders, and Sanders alone. I'm happy to talk about his shortcomings. Just addressing a number of things I saw in the thread. It's an internet forum, don't jump on me.)