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Let's, however, return to the question he posed: What do African-Americans have to lose by electing Trump? Let's count the ways.
Trump has championed a strict law-and-order agenda that rejects the suggestion there are legitimate complaints in the African-American community about policing. He is a lightning rod for racial animus and tension, falsely accusing cities with large African-American populations to be crime havens. With Trump, we'd lack a president who had any conception that there is a problem with policing in minority communities or any desire to bring communities and police together.
There is much, MUCH more...
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
The African-American community would lose ANY possibility of advancement of the agenda of economic progress. If it's bad now, under Trump they'd be relegated to refugee status. Jobs, education, and of course civil rights would vanish. The disaster would be incalculable. The numbers show that they know this
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"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them." Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month." Dostoevsky
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
In any event, the problem Will ALWAYS be the appearance of impropriety, regardless of the actual facts. The Republithugs abhor facts. Gossip and innuendo are their stock-in-trade.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them." Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month." Dostoevsky
Which is YOUR personal favorite disgusting, racist, homophobic, misogynistic Breitbart headline, the one that would make you want to get on the Trump Train, for real?
He's going to lose the white sheet vote too at this rate.
Full steam ahead in the Trumptanic. (note to mods this is describing the campaign and not the person)
Although there do appear to be some signs of an actual campaign developing. Trump has finally got into the air war in some of the swing states, but at a paltry fraction of clintons spending. A good few rallies have been cancelled in deep blue states where he had no chance anyway. The "new" immigration message might have worked if he had not already sh!t the bed on that. His outreach to minorities moderate republicans may also work to a minor degree but again, hes rolling in another pile of his own excrement there.
National polls are showing a mild tightening in the national race, but Trump is taking a hammering in the swing states.
Next few weeks will be interesting. I had expected more of a down ticket exodus already, but the RNC will try to extract as much cash as possible before jumping in the lifeboats.
The campaign narrative will probably refocus on not giving a Clinton a blank cheque as president a la the 96 race. I'm Bob Dole and I don't approve of this message.
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." (Philip K.Dick)
