The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(07-23-2020, 01:12 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(07-22-2020, 06:23 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(07-22-2020, 04:36 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(07-22-2020, 03:02 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(07-22-2020, 02:01 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Is Trump trying to destroy the federal court in Seattle or Antifa? How liberal or stupid do you have to be to use that ploy or go for that ploy? You better get your shit straight and figure out a way to be smart because you're going to have to explain you're support of it to America or at least your candidate is going to have try to anyway because America is paying for it. So, did you support the Irish Catholic, the Marxist Jew and Latino or one of the two ex prosecutors/ex city/county bureaucrats or the gay or the black dude or the uppity liberal white woman with the high cheek bones that's I'm sure still represent something of value to some of the democratic population or Democratic electorate today.

Throwing a firecracker or writing graffiti does not destroy a building. Trump and his followers like you have the favorite tactic of using a slogan to apply to a whole group. So, prove to me that "antifa" threw that firework. Can you do that? Trump has provoked whoever did those things to start knocking down the door. But they can't destroy the building. But Trump can destroy our republic by deploying unidentified troops to pick peaceful protesters and bystanders off the street and put them in jail.

Martin Luther King Jr. would have been there with the protesters. My brother is a former Oregon official and lives in Portland so maybe he'll have some info on what's going on. Meanwhile, it would be wise for us all to go to this site and see the entire context of Dr. King's iconic final speech in Memphis, and remember what he said so powerfully, "The greatness of America is the right to protest FOR right!"
https://theundefeated.com/features/lets-...stice-too/

Somehow Classic Xer has forgotten what the TRUE greatness of America is.

There is audio posted here of longer excerpts from the speech. I'm not sure how to post an mp3 here. But King went there to support striking workers, many but not all black, and led a march there on March 28, 1968. Some looters and militants went off by themselves and started breaking windows. King was persuaded to turn the march around, because he did not want to be seen leading a violent march. 

But he vowed to come back and prove he could lead a non-violent march there. But the national guard was there the next day, and an injunction was ordered to prevent King's next march. His assistant Andrew Young went to court and got the injunction overturned on April 3, and King went to a large hall to rally his followers to join his planned march. In his speech, he recounted how he and his followers had won in Birmingham Alabama in spite of having dogs and water hoses turned on them by the sheriff, singing "we will not be turned around" and remaining non-violent. "We know water," he said, but "we will look above it and see the freedom in the air." Pete Townshend later echoed this iconic sixties phrase in his momentous song "Let's See Action," one of my favorites.

Two shorter parts from these same two excerpts of this final speech are heard in this youtube video. Ironically, an ad for Trump who is now taking away our right to protest comes on before Dr. King.





And you can hear longer audio clips of these two excerpts at the site linked above.

Nothing is Everything/Let's See Action by Peter Townshend



lyrics and audio here:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/petetown...thing.html

Yep. That's about all they can do right now. So, where is the deadbeat Liberal governor and the Washington national guard? Dude, you basically lack the character of MLK and using him for your own benefit makes you look like shit. If you need to latch on to someone black, latch on to a racist black piece of shit wearing a fancy suit like Al Sharpton or Louise Farrakhan. Yes. They're just a couple of dumb blacks but that's no longer a  viable excuse these days.

The National Guard was not needed to stop a few youths from throwing a firework or painting graffiti. That's all they were doing until Trump's goons showed up.

There's no-one better to quote than MLK. Disregarding what he says makes you look like.....
because you have forgotten what the true greatness of America IS.

I know, it's all Trumps fault as usual. So, why doesn't the governor send in the national guard like he should and has the authority to do right now instead of pointing his finger and blaming Trump. Like I've mentioned before, I have a close friend who gave up on the Democratic party and there are about twenty million Democratic voters like him. You're not going to hear anything from them until November. Like I said, this is going to boil down to Liberal Culture vs American Culture.

But your idea of "American culture" is one that never changes or makes progress. American culture, in reality, IS liberal culture. But we'll see whether the true American culture wins in November, or the false one that you support. I'm hedging my bets.

The governor didn't send in the national guard because he didn't think a firework or some graffiti on federal property was enough reason to do so. Your false "American culture" is mainly concerned with symbols like the flag, statues or graffiti, not with real interests. The feds can guard their building, that's OK with me. But they should stay on federal property unless they know someone who committed a crime.