Posted on 08/03/2018 11:40:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Kamala Harris attacked critics of “identity politics”. Elizabeth Warren insisted that Democrats could be both the “party of the white working class and the party of Black Lives Matter” while calling the American criminal justice system “racist”. And Cory Booker said it was time “to get folk woke”.
At the Netroots Nation conference in New Orleans on Friday, leading Democratic presidential hopefuls embraced the concept of intersectionality, viewing any conflict between economic populism and racial and social justice as a false choice.
“I have a problem with that phrase, ‘identity politics,’” said Kamala Harris, the junior Democratic senator from California, during a keynote address at the gathering of more 3,000 liberal activists. “Let’s be clear – when people say that, it’s a pejorative. That phrase is used to divide and used to distract. Its purpose is to minimize and marginalize issues that impact all of us. It’s used to try and shut us up.”
Her remarks rebuked the argument – advanced by many on the left – that economic issues should be emphasized over those of race or gender.
Harris, the daughter of an Indian-American mother and Jamaican-American father, faulted liberals for failing to elevate people of color, especially black women, who she said have “helped build the Democratic party and have been the backbone of the Democratic party”....
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Free Traitors™ are burden to the party.
Until the Republicans drop their love affair with “free Trade” and derail the Cheap Labor Express they have little to offer middle America either....
She just said blacks don’t work!
But they also have to abolish the Justice system because it is racist front to back......then they can be the end all....for real.....it will be the Left that takes us down to the sewer we need to be in before Jesus comes back.....
In the days before the internet and alternatives to the major media, this would have worked. There was a time when you could tell one group one thing and another group something else. Those days are gone and it’s astonishing that the Democrats might believe otherwise. But, then, they believe a lot of things that were once true, or true for a certain perspective, but are no longer true. For instance, that the economy is a zero sum game. There was a time, when money was gold and gold was money, that if much of the money was tied up in the hands of rich people who were not spending it, then the common people wouldn’t have any money. (Yes, I know that rarely happened.) Times have changed and the economy of the middle ages has died. Now you can have people with incredible wealth and there is still plenty of money to go around. (There was a time as late as the 1930’s when cash was so rare that banks and towns were creating their own currency.)
‘Rats are the Party of the Non-Working Classes. (’Rat politicians and their p0wned Takers)
“I have a problem with that phrase, ‘identity politics,’” said Kamala Harris.”
And I have a problem with the concept of “intersectionality” viewing any conflict between economic populism and racial and social justice as a false choice.
When the Democrats hope to bamboozle the public they go to the University and its Sociology Department to bail them out.
The economy continues to grow come 2020 The Donald will match Nixon’s 1968 totals.
Unless you adopt Christian values and begin to behave like a person with those values instead of the values of Satan which you follow, you will NEVER be my party.
Hey heap stupid squaw, get over your obsession with race.
Democrats can be the party of angry black racists and lying fake Indians.
“I’m an Indian, too.”
Makes perfect sense if you are a party that hates America, hates white people and wants to PUNISH white people and make them PAY "reparations" in perpetuity.
Communism plain and simple; white people are the new Jews and Kulaks and must be singled out, targeted, punished and made to "pay" for the "crime" of being white.
POOF...and just like that they suddenly start caring about white working class Americans? Sorry...nice try however...we don’t need you and we definitely don’t want you!
Warren can unite two diametrically opposed factions in the Dem Party?
That would make her a greater ‘uniter’ than even St. Barack! HA!
Why would any white male for a Dem. That is like a cat voting for a Korean cook.
my=may
Any white person still voting democrat really needs their head examined...
no kidding!!! I often wonder why anybody who puts on a clean shirt and goes to work for a living votes DEM.
No.
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