Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumPETE BUTTIGIEG WARNS WHITE SUPREMACY COULD END THE U.S. LIKE IT ALMOST DID IN THE CIVIL WAR
THIS is the issue that will end Trump or will end US.
"The entire American experiment is at stake in whether we can manage to deliver prosperity in a way that your race has no bearing on your income, your wealth, your employment opportunities, your experience with criminal justice [and] your ability to vote." - Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg warned on Saturday that white supremacy almost led to the downfall of the United States in the past and could potentially do so again in the future.
White supremacy "is the only issue that almost ended this country," Buttigieg said during a weekend campaign event in Iowa, ABC News reported. "We've had a lot of challenges in this country, but the one that actually almost ended this country in the Civil War was white supremacy,"
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"It could be the lurking issue that ends this country in the future, if we don't wrangle it down in our time," he cautioned.
https://www.newsweek.com/pete-buttigieg-white-supremacy-could-end-us-like-civil-war-1450377
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)I hope this subject comes up in the next debate.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)Thanks for the thread Duppers.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Duppers
(28,127 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
blue-wave
(4,363 posts)"The entire American experiment is at stake in whether we can manage to deliver prosperity in a way that your race has no bearing on your income, your wealth, your employment opportunities, your experience with criminal justice [and] your ability to vote." - Buttigieg
We must make America a much more fair place for everyone. Leave no one behind must become an enduring reality for all Americans. Our countries future and that of representative democracy is at stake.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Politicub
(12,165 posts)He cut through the fog and so succinctly described why Trumps behavior creates an existential crisis.
And I believe we are witnessing the moment when Buttigieg found his voice.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Runningdawg
(4,522 posts)Not so, with round #2, it will be on EVERYONE'S doorstep. And every drone in the air will be our enemy.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)Didn't the very stable genius Trump tell us about the taking of airports during the Revolutionary War so they must have had an air force during the Civil War after all Trump is never wrong just ask any of his brain dead supporters. LOL
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)as well as to try to see enemy movements behind low hills and woods.
Didn't need airports for those, though.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)A south for oil and greasy grimy stuff
a midwest for food
a North east for the financial
whatever else that the MOB decides.
The US made the Soviet Union bust apart, they want to help the US do the same.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
paleotn
(17,956 posts)Sometimes I get tired and frustrated and I wonder if that's not a bad idea. Let ~40% of the populace go off and be a banana republic, while the rest of us are free to move more towards western Europe and Canada. Then I think, no, my country is worth fighting for.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Are stuck living among those 40%.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
paleotn
(17,956 posts)The country, all of it, is worth fighting for.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)but that was when the issue was most prominent. It was also a major issue in Colonial times, conquering Native Nations, post-Civil War, the Great Depression, World War II, Civil Rights.
Ending slavery was a moral crusade, but the war was fought over an economic system of white supremacy and privilege.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)of supporting a social system that allowed, even encouraged, slavery.
Strange how it was the white populace of privilege that reaped all the benefits from the economy based on slavery.
When allowed, people of wealth have always "owned", in one way or another, some of the poorest in every society.
Every time Pete speaks, I grow prouder of him.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)This is stating the obvious. We all know this!
We have been saying this on DU for years.
What else ya got?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Ponietz
(3,004 posts)Congress and the Democratic incumbent should hang Lee, Davis, Bedford Forrest, and others, in effigy. No more quarter for traitorsit got to this by playing nice them. Time for justice.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
It's such an uphill battle in the South - Look at the hump supporters.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Marengo
(3,477 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Ponietz
(3,004 posts)I meant that figuratively. ✊🏽
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden