I LOVE YOU TOO, STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, BUT YOU ARE NOT A PROGRESSIVE by Bertin Lefkovic
In general, rebuttals should not be nearly as personal as this one is going to be, but for the most part, the arguments that I am going to make apply to many more people than Steven Goldstein, who had the temerity to lecture his “fellow” progressives about how we and our candidate, Bernie Sanders, should fight Our Revolution in a recent InsiderNJ op-ed titled “To My Many Wonderful Friends Who Support Bernie Sanders” . But you wanted to talk “tachlis”, Steven, so let’s talk tachlis. You, Steven Goldstein, are not a progressive and neither are most, if not all, of the party leaders and elected officials who you call allies and friends. Most of them were never progressives and you are no longer a progressive. First and foremost, Steven, we are in the year 2020, not 1992 or 1996 or 2003. I bring up these years, specifically, because 1992 was the year that I was on the barricades doing clinic defense during the Democratic National Convention when it was being...