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In reply to the discussion: How the extreme left gave us Nixon, Bush and now Trump [View all]BainsBane
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Go make overtures to the White Supremacists. I'm not stopping you. And certainly I understand their hatred for all things not white and male is "principled." It happens to be a principle I believe to be evil. You are free to admire and cultivate them all you like, but you don't for a second use the word "we" to lump me in with that crowd. I mean it. This is not the first time I have made that request.
Stein operated because of cash. She got plenty of it. It's fascinating that all people need to do to be defended on conning the poor and vulnerable is to declare themselves "leftist". The investment bankers really ought to start calling themselves leftist so they can get people who care more about labels than actions to defend them.
I really don't give a shit what fascists "feel." They chose to drive the country to the authoritarian right and continue to defend the unstable autocrat they installed. Trump is their doing, and they can continue to defend the cabinet of billionaires and racist policies ripping families apart because the party responsible for it isn't Democrat. They got exactly what they wanted with Trump. America is white, male, and rapier again. Thank god for "leftists" ensuring the country is finally moving in the right direction. And if Trump succeeds in stripping away voting rights of the subaltern, the "left" will be able to count control the Democratic Party again, just as they did in the days of Jim Crow when the party met their standards. Because time and time again that is precisely the period they point back to.
For those people the election turned on privilege, in which asserting their own privilege mattered more than the lives of the millions of Americans hurt by the election results. They were determined to punish the women and people of color they maligned, and continue to malign, as establishment. They insulted Black Lives Matter and the Mothers of the Movement for daring to concern themselves with the lives of black people, when the self- entitled narcissists insisted their concerns were all that mattered. Civil rights were a "distraction", they insisted. African Americans and women who asked candidates to address their concerns were "weak" or racist themselves--cause you know for "leftists" racism is defined by black people daring to speak about oppression. They attacked unions, worked to defund Planned Parenthood, insulted Civil Rights leaders and organizations. They nattered about " corporatism" without bothering to read Marx, analysis of the capitalist state, or lean anything about their own nation's history. The Tea Party had already engaged in that same discourse about corporations since 2009, but suddenly a certain faction decided to incorporate many of the Tea Party's positions, and we're supposed to believe claims they are leftist?
They did indeed believe the country was moving in the wrong direction. A black president who was poised to be succeeded by a woman--a lowly woman--was too much for them to bear. And people of color and women kept picking Democratic nominees due to the fact there are simply more of them who vote Democrat. That was unacceptable. How dare they not vote as the self-entitled demanded? One particularly foul rat fucker who no longer posts here insisted that corporations had sent women and people of color into the Democratic Party into divert it from its true mission of representing the "working class." (Funny how working class now excludes nearly everyone earning at or below the median income). So they did what the rest of the deplorables did, vote into power a white supremacist, fascist regime. But America is great-- white--again, and that's what really counts.
I won't be putting on a hood to liaise with the Trump supporters you've decided constitute some perverted version of leftism that the white male bourgeoisie cooked up to justify their own privilege. I have my own principles, and they will never accommodate fascism, White Supremacy, or deepening inequality in order to satisfy the self-entitled.