08-17-2017, 05:13 AM
(08-16-2017, 01:53 PM)David Horn Wrote:(08-16-2017, 08:14 AM)gabrielle Wrote: Black Lives Matter Is Not a Hate GroupEven if I agree in full, which I do with some reservations, they are still a net negative on the left. Is it any wonder that the Democrats can't win anything anywhere when their allies spend 99% of the time, and nearly that much of the political oxygen, advocating for narrow interests that are, by definition, exclusionary. At least Bernie Sanders understands that if none of the other politicos on the left do.
This is about a year old, but I don't believe there's been any major change in the direction of BLM since then.
When a group calls itself Black Lives Matter, the majority of Americans hear it as Only Black Lives Matter. That's not fair, but it is reality. The same applies to any of the other narrow interest groups with a limited agenda that focuses on a minority rather than the whole. You can't win with 100% support of 25% of the people. If you don't win, you can't do anything.
Democrats don't spend 99% of the time on those issues.
It's important that they spend the time on them that they do. Blacks and other marginalized groups are an important part of the Democratic Party. Without them they can't win.
With them, they can't win either? That doesn't speak well for "the majority of Americans" and what they choose to hear. If Americans are capable of good will and conscience, and support human rights, as Americans claim to do, they will realize that violations of rights for some is a violation of rights for all. If they don't, then we have already lost our country, and it deserves to become the poor banana republic that it has already been on the way to becoming for 40 years (as of 2020).
Yes, it's important that Democrats stress the issues that affect all of us, like the economic equality gap, climate change, etc. But violations of human rights is a fundamental challenge to what this country is supposed to be, and must be addressed by any political party interested in our country (speaking of excluding, that may exclude the Republican Party).