Countdown to a Free America

[David Horn]

(04-24-2018, 08:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(04-24-2018, 01:45 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(04-21-2018, 05:08 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I have no concern that the SJW faction will cry foul over any of this. It's what they want too. They just want to make sure that their groups' interests are also protected from injustice, which is a very real concern, and which itself causes a lot of the economic inequality. We all need to see that it's all connected; then the "gap" is bridged without any doubt. Trickle-down, give-breaks-to-job-creaters nonsense-economics cannot exist without appealing to the fears and prejudice of those who don't want to pay for others' government welfare benefits. And the "others" that they mean, are the same people whom the SJWs speak up for.

There is distrust everywhere.  Did Bernie Sanders' message resonate outside the liberal white audience?  Not very much.

Maybe he wasn't quite the right voice. Do we really know if Sanders would have mobilized them as the nominee? Hillary had a lot of credibility, because of her background in helping them, despite many white liberals calling her neo-liberal and corporate. The white liberals exaggerated Hillary's defects, and the non-whites gave her a pass on them.

Hillary didn't have the candidate skills to win though. For the presidency, this is everything. I think because of Mitch Landrieu's courage in taking down the confederate statues, for which he won a profiles in courage award and got a book deal, as well as his skill in helping New Orleans' recovery, he may have the credibility to appeal to the non-white tribes. He has the needed candidate skills, has the recognition of his fellow mayors, and seems to have a progressive agenda overall. So, it depends whether the white Democrats and their elites will support a white progressive mayor for president, and whether he decides to go for it.

As long as trust is not achievable, progress will be held at bay.  Worse still, that trust can't be obtained through the political process.  It's a social asset and needs to be acquired there, in the culture at large.  The only possible political action that might move that along: remove the power of money from politics.  If you have a plan to accomplish that, I would love to hear it.  FDR tried to pack the SCOTUS under similar pressures, and it failed.  I doubt it would succeed today either.  That makes getting there a long slog.