Should Bernie use his "political revolution" to help get Obama's SCOTUS nominee through the Senate?

[Peace Patriot]

33. Thank you! I agree!

I was thinking the same thing. And I gotta say (I'm a woman, 70 years old, a feminist and a Democratic Party member and activist for 56 years, and Democratic voter since I reached voting age): Abortion is NOT the only issue, and is not, by any means, the most important one.

CORPORATE RULE is the most important issue, because, by this means, the vast majority of the women in this country are being robbed, stricken into poverty, DENIED the choice of having a family because they can't afford to raise children and can't afford to BE WITH their children, work 60 hours a week at shit-pay jobs, can't buy a house, can't afford to go to college, can't afford to get a divorce if they have abusive husbands, can't afford Obamacare because of insurance profiteers' ever increasing deductibles and co-pays and premiums, and, after working all their lives, can't look forward to a decent retirement on the Social Security they've paid into all their lives, and can't pay the 20% part of Medicare that isn't paid for. Also, they can't afford pregnancy itself, can't afford birth control and can't afford an abortion if they need one.

Yes, control of our own bodies is a vital issue, and a right that is in peril for sure. But Corporate Rule is even more devastating to our right to a decent life, and virtually all of this devastation applies to men as well.

So-o-o-o-o, I want to know that Obama's nominee will overturn 'Citizens United' and remove personhood from corporations, and will furthermore declare billionaires buying elections to be unconstitutional. I would also like to see a nominee who would rule that vote counting using 'TRADE SECRET' code--private programming code owned and controlled by a handful of rightwing-connected corporations--is also unconstitutional. To such a nominee, it would be obvious that women have the right to control our own bodies. But I also see a grave disconnect happening between these two matters, by which women's rights or gay rights or other 'interest group' rights are flurried before us by so-called liberals, who support corporate looting 'rights' in the back room.

This is true of politicians (among whom I include Hillary Clinton) and true of supremely bad court justices. The current court are mostly scumbags. Are we going to get a 'centrist scumbag' that we are supposed to rally round, and use OUR revolution to support, who pays lip service to women's rights, for instance, but is in bed with the Corporate Rulers?

President Obama has to prove a couple of things to me, with his nomination, before I would agree to support it. He can't just nominate anybody and expect us to help him get that person appointed, no matter what. I would EXPECT President Sanders to know that. He has said so about 'Citizens United.' I wouldn't expect Hillary Clinton to give a damn what I thought. She WILL appoint a Corporatist, for sure--under some guise like women's rights, and she won't need or ask for our help because, a) she doesn't believe in democracy--she's a Corporatist; and b) she will tailor the nominee to the prevailing power in Washington DC--mega-corporations and their lobbyists--and we may end up with a right only to have abortions, not to have children. Because we can't feed them!