He was ready to dismantle social security as a grand bargain with Republicans , social security that little scrap of a welfare state remaining . No , the evidence points towards him going incrementally away from socialism . <| sep |> Tbh I never really doubted the sincerity of her politics . She was a victim of some of some pretty awful sexual violence and I ' m pretty sure that played a role shaping her politics . I ' ve found that in general feminists are sick and tired of talking about male victims and I don ' t blame them for this because it ' s so often used as a way to derail conversations about gendered violence . If I wanted to talk about what happened to me in a feminist context I wouldn ' t stress stuff like men can be victims too but rather how at a minimum this is a feminist issue because most of her victims happened to be women she was so aggressive and coercive to her girlfriend that her girlfriend ended up attempting suicide and she took out her rage and anger on a lot of her other female friends . Also taking about the diversity of abusers helps break the mythstereotype that you can tell if someone is abusive just by looking at them . And that is a narrative that supports feminism .