01-13-2022, 03:50 PM
To paraphrase something said in the Bible - at Revelation 2:9 - I know the blasphemy of those who say they are progressives, and are not.
Let's start with gun control: How soon we forget who the most vehement opponents of the 1968 Gun Control Act were - the Black Panthers; and look at who accounts for 95% of those incarcerated under the restrictive, confiscatory gun laws that are already on the books in the various states are - people of color, primarily blacks. MSNBC veteran Melissa Harris-Perry is one of the few progressives who are actually honest about this.
Second, let's turn our attention to immigration: Every time it has been cut off, either legislatively or through the sheer force of events, African-Americans have been the vastly inordinate beneficiaries: When World War I broke out in Europe in 1914, northern employers had no choice but to "import" black workers from the Jim Crow South - a trend that continued when Congress passed two anti-immigration laws in the 1920s, in 1921 (when unemployment was 11.9%) and 1924 (by 1926, unemployment went all the way down to 1.9%, the lowest annual jobless rate ever in peacetime, causing wages to skyrocket and enabling everyone to run out and buy themselves cars and radios and get their homes wired up with electricity and telephone service for the first time ever). When World War II broke out in Europe in 1939? Lather, rinse, and repeat - and this is the way things stayed until a diabolical coalition of the economic right and the multicultural left threw the borders back open again in 1965.
Third, when the USS Liberty was accidentally sunk by the Israelis in the Mediterranean in 1967, conservative Republicans screamed bloody murder while liberal Democrats (joined by "Rockefeller Republicans" like Jacob Javits) rushed to Israel's defense. But now? The left is totally on the side of the "Palestinians" and against the Jews, despite the fact that Muslim countries routinely throw LGBT people off the roofs of double-digit story buildings while the Israeli military has allowed LGBT personnel into its ranks with no strings attached for decades.
And finally, who signed the American-job-destroying NAFTA into law, when many Republicans opposed it?
Let's start with gun control: How soon we forget who the most vehement opponents of the 1968 Gun Control Act were - the Black Panthers; and look at who accounts for 95% of those incarcerated under the restrictive, confiscatory gun laws that are already on the books in the various states are - people of color, primarily blacks. MSNBC veteran Melissa Harris-Perry is one of the few progressives who are actually honest about this.
Second, let's turn our attention to immigration: Every time it has been cut off, either legislatively or through the sheer force of events, African-Americans have been the vastly inordinate beneficiaries: When World War I broke out in Europe in 1914, northern employers had no choice but to "import" black workers from the Jim Crow South - a trend that continued when Congress passed two anti-immigration laws in the 1920s, in 1921 (when unemployment was 11.9%) and 1924 (by 1926, unemployment went all the way down to 1.9%, the lowest annual jobless rate ever in peacetime, causing wages to skyrocket and enabling everyone to run out and buy themselves cars and radios and get their homes wired up with electricity and telephone service for the first time ever). When World War II broke out in Europe in 1939? Lather, rinse, and repeat - and this is the way things stayed until a diabolical coalition of the economic right and the multicultural left threw the borders back open again in 1965.
Third, when the USS Liberty was accidentally sunk by the Israelis in the Mediterranean in 1967, conservative Republicans screamed bloody murder while liberal Democrats (joined by "Rockefeller Republicans" like Jacob Javits) rushed to Israel's defense. But now? The left is totally on the side of the "Palestinians" and against the Jews, despite the fact that Muslim countries routinely throw LGBT people off the roofs of double-digit story buildings while the Israeli military has allowed LGBT personnel into its ranks with no strings attached for decades.
And finally, who signed the American-job-destroying NAFTA into law, when many Republicans opposed it?
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892