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November 2, 2015
And the Democratic establishment has cheered the drug war, voted for it and made it their own.
Imagine what twenty million more votes for the Democratic party would have accomplished politically, why would any political party want to throw away that sort of voting base?
All for what turns out to be a "big lie" based almost entirely on racism.
One of the reasons I prefer Bernie is that he, unlike the vast majority of Democratic office holders, is not a drug warrior, he wants to end the insanity of the drug war not for political gain but because it's the right thing to do.
Why have Democrats enthusiastically disenfranchised their most loyal voting bloc?
The statistics are damning...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027307522
According to US Bureau of Justice statistics, between 1980 and 2013, while blacks were 12% of the population, blacks constituted 30% of those arrested for drug law violations and nearly 40% of those incarcerated in all U.S. prisons. Thus some 20,000,000 African-American men have been sent to prison for non-violent “crimes” in the past forty years.
And the Democratic establishment has cheered the drug war, voted for it and made it their own.
Imagine what twenty million more votes for the Democratic party would have accomplished politically, why would any political party want to throw away that sort of voting base?
All for what turns out to be a "big lie" based almost entirely on racism.
One of the reasons I prefer Bernie is that he, unlike the vast majority of Democratic office holders, is not a drug warrior, he wants to end the insanity of the drug war not for political gain but because it's the right thing to do.
November 1, 2015
Religion group posts last 30 days 2714, Interfaith group posts last 30 days 11
What's the difference between the Religion group and the Interfaith group? Very little except no negative posts are allowed in the Interfaith group.
If you want GD-P to have as few posts as the Interfaith group just put in a rule that no negative posts are allowed.
Politics is about compromise between conflicting points of view, conflicting agendas, if conflict is not allowed then compromise will never be reached.
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