2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: While I support the overall BLM movement, the group's so-called "representatives" have lost me. [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)I could not agree more.
As another person of color please be prepared to be dismissed and ridiculed here for what you are saying.
The straw men abound. The partisan attacks will continue.
This has turned into an Atwater/Rove playbook case study for sure. Sanders has the strongest record of any Dem candidate on both social and economic justice. So they turn that strength into a weakness. Phony rhetoric my ass. The only phony rhetoric is HRC's and her surrogates.
But the deeper level of propaganda is actually the Third Way/DLC technique of co-opting another 'progressive' issue, rebranding it separate from any economic connections, and then focusing solely on it. Pay no attention to the fact that Clinton, another fucking neo-liberal, will espouse and practice economic policies that are highly destructive to persons of color. Pay no attention to the fact that Clinton, another fucking neo-liberal, has a history of racist campaigning but is now suddenly the minority savior and champion.
If this does not backfire on her and people of color do not wake up to the shit that is being peddled and used against them, well then fuck it, we deserve what we get. I won't shed a tear if she wins the primary, loses the general, and things get far worse under Jeb Bush. I won't shed a tear if she wins the primary, mangages the win the general, and things stay exactly the same under her presidency.