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jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
17. Act like Democrats. You mean the ones turning over school buses and teaching their kids to beat up
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 11:22 AM
Jun 2016

black kids in '71, (good, deep blue FDR democrats whose parents lives were saved by the New Deal) or the "kinder" Democrats putting tens of thousands of black folks in jail because it is a path to more in donations, not standing up to the fascists and racist in the 90s?

You want people lo act like Democrats? They are.

No violence? Take a look around - 50 million people on food stamps, 100 million working poor, black men with a 35% unemployment rate - which the Democrats could fix by spending money, but they would rather crow about their low deficit, while some kid goes hungry, or not offer government jobs that are about the only place someone can get a color-blind shot at the job. An insurance program which denies coverage to 35 million people so it can give better coverage to the ones who signed up, The veterans, thousands deep in a line waiting for care after they gave what was asked by an ungrateful nation.

Ask the black person who had their face ground into the pavement for the same behavior that a white driver was allowed to drive away from.

There is already daily violence, but a few people make enough to insulate themselves, pretend there isn't any.

What you want is for people to act like human beings, like they were somehow dependent on each other to make it. Because we are.

But they haven't had to in so long, I suspect the world will burn before it gets their attention.

Things Won't Change Significantly Until Citizens Demand Better Through Direct Action cantbeserious May 2016 #1
That's it in a nutshell MissDeeds May 2016 #4
fracking and war oldandhappy May 2016 #2
Oh I agree there are differences in the candidates and I will fight against the candidates rhett o rick May 2016 #5
yep. well said oldandhappy May 2016 #9
The system isn't broken; the system is fixed. CrispyQ May 2016 #3
I am looking for someone with a theory on how we can stop our rush to global disaster. rhett o rick May 2016 #6
On this issue, my optimism doesn't even reach a glass half empty outlook. CrispyQ May 2016 #7
Oh how I wish I could give you a good answer for that... tex-wyo-dem May 2016 #8
Look at how complicated the whole thing is getting Warpy May 2016 #10
As much as it burns, we have to follow the GOP playbook demwing May 2016 #11
I noticed the repubs starting to do this exact thing back in the 80s. pangaia Jun 2016 #14
Find a way to starve the beast aspirant May 2016 #12
Capitalism won't allow it. The beast is not caged and if we try to starve it, it rhett o rick May 2016 #13
"One we will continue to allow the beast to steal our standard of living " That's what the beast jtuck004 Jun 2016 #15
Help? Help me decide there is zero hope? Yes. When people calling themselves Democrats rhett o rick Jun 2016 #16
Act like Democrats. You mean the ones turning over school buses and teaching their kids to beat up jtuck004 Jun 2016 #17
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