Ask people what single line they remember about Barack Obama’s 2004 speech at the Democratic National Convention, and most will quote his words about unity, about there not being a black, white, Latino, or Asian America, but rather the United States of America.
The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party's issues were entirely fiscal yet the Democrats, including President Obama, attacked the Tea Party as racist. But, did the Tea Party apply a racial test for membership? No. Did the Tea Party promote racist policies like segregated schools? No. Did they run non-white candidates for office? Yes, they did, and some of them won. Then, why the racism smear? Because many, even most Democrats will believe a racism accusation without question, no evidence required.
In his latest memoir, "A Promised Land", former President Obama called the Tea Party "the descendants of Jim Crow", which makes Reifowitz's portrait of Obama as a healer of racial divisions rather doubtful.
The Democrats’ insistence that all opposition to Obama’s policies from the right were racially motivated. The most ridiculous was that since Obamacare was based on Romneycare the only reason Republicans opposed it was due to race. Never mind that Romney was a Republican governor of a very blue state working with a Democrat controlled legislature. Never mind that it’s entirely ideologically consistent for a Republican to support something at the state level but oppose it at the federal level.
The main differences between the TEA party and Occupy Wall Street were that the TEA party got permits and cleaned up after itself while Occupy Wall Street did neither. And Occupy Wall Street was saying they should have bailed out the little guy not the fat cats, while the TEA party said they shouldn’t have bailed out anyone.
Can a Liberal write anything without including Trump? My general rule of thumb, when one ideology writes about the opposing ideology, it is never fair, accurate nor worth reading. Try writing without Trump in your posts. After all, using Trump as your standard to compare your own party too, by your own definition, is using the lowest standard there is. If you aspire to be just better than Trump, as an Independent, I have no use for you.
By the way, what does today’s political environment have to do with the environments of the past? Trump was elected to change the whole system. Because the old systems from the past sucked. What was, good or bad, is not what is relevant to today. Mainly because what was, was lies and rhetoric to get elected. Nothing more.
Imagine the reaction if Melania Trump said the United States is "just downright mean." Or if Hillary Clinton had said that she had never been proud of her country until her husband ran for President. Why did Michelle Obama get a pass for these anti-American remarks? The racial double standard.
America was founded on the idea of the freedom to become, to the best of your ability, the best you could be, based on your personal decisions. Rush Limbaugh, the quintessential conservative, always drew the picture of the economic pie as a platform of growth and aiways rejected the zero sum game unequivocally. In his opinion, that was the Left's conception, that whites hoarded the pie, taking ever larger slices and diminishing the remains, leaving crumbs for everyone else. Limbaugh totally dismissed that premise as absurd.
The Left's refusal to honor the individual, its insistence oawesome abilityn labeling groups and then applying policy to them, destroyed the cohesive idea of a nation. It, in fact, denied that America is, or deserves to be, a nation, let alone a proud one. And then, the left blames the right for our divisions. Finally, the sane, sensible, real America is rising up and saying, no more. We are taking back our identities, our dignity, our pride and our awesome ability to project the unique American leadership again.
Reparations for slavery is an unpopular idea. Few Americans want to pay for the injustices other people committed 160 years ago. The AP-NORC poll reports that Americans oppose it by 2-1. Yet, here is a quote from the official Democratic platform of 2024: "To determine how best to right historical wrongs, Democrats support Congress executing a study of reparations and the continuing impacts of slavery." Wouldn't the Democrats do better politically by taking the popular side of issues instead of the unpopular one?
Imagine if Obama using a pseudonym posted his ideas of inclusiveness over on DK where you first posted this article in early July. I've no doubt Obama would be banned very quickly as they only allow a certain type of Democrat over there, therein lies the rub.
A decade ago we could have used this medicine to cure what was ailing us. Now we are losing the multi ethnic multi racial working class to Trump because he speaks in the language of jobs. It turns out that moderate Republicans, and moderate Democrats have a lot in common, and the last thing we worry about is the color of our skin. More people are independents, and those who join a party are joining with the other folks. Integration happened generations ago, and it worked, now we are more class based.
The Democratic Party needs to explain how they will boost wages tomorrow, not some year down the road by giving chip makers money or money to teachers at community colleges. Wages, immediately such that a person can rent an apartment. Claiming "we are going to try real hard for increasing the min wage" to some impossibly low number anyway won't cut it anymore.
Economists today discussing Trump and rate cuts at the NYT said Trump is liable to blow up the place, many of us say that could be a good thing.
Obama’s vision left people wanting. His policies aimed to make us equal.
We each started in a different place; birth order, cohesion of our family, values imparted to us, etc, Through life we are free to make choices; who to live with, life work or join the growing labor non-participants, where to live, to attend church, to save or spend, etc. Decisions have consequences.
My priority is that everyone in my family has the basics they need. That’s what family does. Why would anyone think we are or should be equal? We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Some are a lot taller than others.
The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party's issues were entirely fiscal yet the Democrats, including President Obama, attacked the Tea Party as racist. But, did the Tea Party apply a racial test for membership? No. Did the Tea Party promote racist policies like segregated schools? No. Did they run non-white candidates for office? Yes, they did, and some of them won. Then, why the racism smear? Because many, even most Democrats will believe a racism accusation without question, no evidence required.
In his latest memoir, "A Promised Land", former President Obama called the Tea Party "the descendants of Jim Crow", which makes Reifowitz's portrait of Obama as a healer of racial divisions rather doubtful.
The Democrats’ insistence that all opposition to Obama’s policies from the right were racially motivated. The most ridiculous was that since Obamacare was based on Romneycare the only reason Republicans opposed it was due to race. Never mind that Romney was a Republican governor of a very blue state working with a Democrat controlled legislature. Never mind that it’s entirely ideologically consistent for a Republican to support something at the state level but oppose it at the federal level.
The main differences between the TEA party and Occupy Wall Street were that the TEA party got permits and cleaned up after itself while Occupy Wall Street did neither. And Occupy Wall Street was saying they should have bailed out the little guy not the fat cats, while the TEA party said they shouldn’t have bailed out anyone.
What you see is Obama's vision. Democrats problem is they lost Bill Clinton's vision.
If Hillary had run for Bill’s third term instead of Barack’s she would have won easily.
Reaction to him was much more positive than her. Plus when she ran against Trump she made a bunch of mistakes. Bill warned her but she blew him off.
Can a Liberal write anything without including Trump? My general rule of thumb, when one ideology writes about the opposing ideology, it is never fair, accurate nor worth reading. Try writing without Trump in your posts. After all, using Trump as your standard to compare your own party too, by your own definition, is using the lowest standard there is. If you aspire to be just better than Trump, as an Independent, I have no use for you.
By the way, what does today’s political environment have to do with the environments of the past? Trump was elected to change the whole system. Because the old systems from the past sucked. What was, good or bad, is not what is relevant to today. Mainly because what was, was lies and rhetoric to get elected. Nothing more.
Imagine the reaction if Melania Trump said the United States is "just downright mean." Or if Hillary Clinton had said that she had never been proud of her country until her husband ran for President. Why did Michelle Obama get a pass for these anti-American remarks? The racial double standard.
America was founded on the idea of the freedom to become, to the best of your ability, the best you could be, based on your personal decisions. Rush Limbaugh, the quintessential conservative, always drew the picture of the economic pie as a platform of growth and aiways rejected the zero sum game unequivocally. In his opinion, that was the Left's conception, that whites hoarded the pie, taking ever larger slices and diminishing the remains, leaving crumbs for everyone else. Limbaugh totally dismissed that premise as absurd.
The Left's refusal to honor the individual, its insistence oawesome abilityn labeling groups and then applying policy to them, destroyed the cohesive idea of a nation. It, in fact, denied that America is, or deserves to be, a nation, let alone a proud one. And then, the left blames the right for our divisions. Finally, the sane, sensible, real America is rising up and saying, no more. We are taking back our identities, our dignity, our pride and our awesome ability to project the unique American leadership again.
Reparations for slavery is an unpopular idea. Few Americans want to pay for the injustices other people committed 160 years ago. The AP-NORC poll reports that Americans oppose it by 2-1. Yet, here is a quote from the official Democratic platform of 2024: "To determine how best to right historical wrongs, Democrats support Congress executing a study of reparations and the continuing impacts of slavery." Wouldn't the Democrats do better politically by taking the popular side of issues instead of the unpopular one?
Imagine if Obama using a pseudonym posted his ideas of inclusiveness over on DK where you first posted this article in early July. I've no doubt Obama would be banned very quickly as they only allow a certain type of Democrat over there, therein lies the rub.
A decade ago we could have used this medicine to cure what was ailing us. Now we are losing the multi ethnic multi racial working class to Trump because he speaks in the language of jobs. It turns out that moderate Republicans, and moderate Democrats have a lot in common, and the last thing we worry about is the color of our skin. More people are independents, and those who join a party are joining with the other folks. Integration happened generations ago, and it worked, now we are more class based.
The Democratic Party needs to explain how they will boost wages tomorrow, not some year down the road by giving chip makers money or money to teachers at community colleges. Wages, immediately such that a person can rent an apartment. Claiming "we are going to try real hard for increasing the min wage" to some impossibly low number anyway won't cut it anymore.
Economists today discussing Trump and rate cuts at the NYT said Trump is liable to blow up the place, many of us say that could be a good thing.
Obama’s vision left people wanting. His policies aimed to make us equal.
We each started in a different place; birth order, cohesion of our family, values imparted to us, etc, Through life we are free to make choices; who to live with, life work or join the growing labor non-participants, where to live, to attend church, to save or spend, etc. Decisions have consequences.
My priority is that everyone in my family has the basics they need. That’s what family does. Why would anyone think we are or should be equal? We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Some are a lot taller than others.