mos_def wrote:Black Jack wrote:FNQ wrote:
Progressive Dem here.
Sure you dont want to wait to see what he does before we already label him? The worst thing I can call him right now is pandering and inexperienced.
And until the Dem side eliminates superdelegates, I dont think they have much of a platform to stand on when it comes to the electoral college. Though gerrymandering is probably one of the least democratic things I've ever seen.
The answer is education. But when the government cuts and controls federal education.. things like Columbus Day happen.
Are you paying attention? He's picked racists and crazies for his key posts. It's not even a joke, we're headed into a buzzsaw full speed ahead.
People are in denial about what's about to happen, these guys aren't playing.
What racists (pleural) are you referring to? Exactly, what incidents are you referring to?
Trump just hired Nikki Haley, who is Hindi, as UN ambassador
Steve Bannon, the Breitbart editor. Under his direction, Breitbart went from a right-leaning news source (one that, by all accounts, despised nationalism and racism) and turned into an alt-right leaning news source that uses white nationalism as a legitimate counterpunch to political correctness. (editorial: PC is annoying but not nearly as harmful)
Jeff Sessions, a man who was deemed to racist to be a judge. Allegedly called a black attorney "boy" several times, suggested a white attorney representing a black man to be a race traitor, said that his only problem with the KKK was their drug use. He's the attorney general now. He claimed they were all in jest.. so there's reason to be concerned and there's still reason to dismiss it, and people lean one way or the other. I think stating either as fact is letting your bias do the talking. That said, picking someone to be attorney general with that kind of stain on his record isn't comforting.
Michael Flynn, a man who said - direct quote, so can't be misconstrued - that Islam was a "vicious cancer inside the body of 1.7 billion people" that needed to be "excised". Not racism, if we're being technical, but definitely intolerant and bigoted. Because if 1.7 billion people really wanted to take down America, as if that were the religion's goal.. they probably could. Keeping in mind that 3.3m Muslims live in America already, a mere 1% of the population.
So even as I say "wait and see" to what this regime brings us, to not acknowledge these people's pasts and point to one diverse appointment as a proof against white Christian nationalism, that doesn't fly to me.