DemocraticSocialist8
DemocraticSocialist8's JournalHas the Democratic Party Accepted Mass Incarceration as a Norm?
This is a topic for grown-ups who can have their beliefs challenged and defend them. Not for people who only want confirmation bias. This is just a reflection of my opinion.
I'm a black voter. Early 30's. I came of age during Black Lives Matter rallies and the realization that America has a prison-complex that is the largest in the world full of disproportionately non-violent POC offenders. Non-violent offenders who are only there because of the disastrous 'tough-on-crime' era that apparently lots of people are still clinging to despite the overwhelming evidence of the millions of lives that era has destroyed and how riddled with racism the rhetoric was back then.
As you can tell from my name, I'm not a Biden supporter...for many reasons really. But his role in the creation of mass incarceration is a MAJOR no deal for me. Hillary Clinton was attacked for echoing tough-on-crime rhetoric during that era, but she doesn't nearly have the blood on her hands that Biden has. For me, I don't care that he was Obama's VP. That doesn't erase the system he helped create and the lives that are STILL being destroyed by it. To make matters worse, Biden is still defending the 94 crime bill in recent years! There's circumstantial evidence to support the idea that he hasn't really learned anything at all since then (or doesn't have the leadership to admit he made terrible decisions backs then).
I'm at a loss then for why Biden has so much support from within the Party? I'd really like to know what is going through voters heads and why so many have decided to give him a pass on this? It's led me to the idea that perhaps many within the Democratic Party have just accepted mass incarceration and their role in it because unfortunately...this isn't something we can just pass off on the GOP. Democrats were knee-deep in the tough-on-crime era.
I hear people saying they think Biden is the only one who can defeat Trump? Based on what? What data is supporting this idea? Are we still in 2019 trying to run elections to win over a demographic that has become increasingly extreme who show no signs of crossing over to vote for Democrats? How is appealing to Trump voters considered the winning strategy instead of expanding the electorate? I guess if you want to believe in the idea that "well they're not all bad"...then that makes some sense.
I'm just trying to have a discussion here about this instead of on Twitter where I already know a lot of anti-Biden voters are. DU seems more in line with where the majority in the party are and I don't see this discussion happening enough.
Too Many Dare Not Call It War - But the GOP Is Waging War on America
The bills in GA and AL are backward and appalling.
The far-right extremists are attacking women.
They're attacking immigrants and Border Patrol is colluding with fascist, non-government militias...then denying it even though they've been caught multiple times feeding extremist militias intelligence.
They're attacking voting rights.
They're inciting violence against two female, immigrant women in Congress.
The police are still attacking Black people like it's a sport.
Too many dare not call it warfare because that's supposed to be a word used only for foreign American empire engagements abroad. But no, the right-wing is DEFINITELY waging war on America right now and everything a liberal democracy is supposed to represent. I personally think many have embraced extremism because they know their ideas are not popular and they can't win in an equal democratic setting. I think there is a large enough group of people in this country who do not believe in democracy that it's now become a problem.
The media knows this, and because they appeal to power and make a lot of money off of the chaos...they're not keeping it real with the state of American politics. Well, I do see some who are, but as a group the media is not doing enough.
Much of the crimes of ICE and simply not being covered.
White supremacist terrorism is at an all-time high.
This country is in terrible shape right now.
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