Cui Bono if Joy Ann Reid is taken down?

[PatrickforO]

63. You know, we should talk about that, though.

Not really you and I, but 'us' as a group of Democrats.

If we really want to get somewhere, we have to stay together.

Now, I'm a white guy in his late fifties, so take what I say with that particular grain of salt. But, here's the thing. From my perspective, the old civil rights movement was working. When it stopped working was when the black activists split off.

The women's movement broke off on its own, as you say, and became the weaker for it.

The antiwar protests over Vietnam petered out and everyone sort of went their own way.

The LGBTQ people protested, were ridiculed, beaten bloody and murdered for no reason but who they are.

Then many in my (our?) generation sold out and focused on personal enrichment rather than making our society a better place for all.

Now, we've become little better than a nation of sociopaths, it seems, and we Democrats are often accused of 'identity politics.'

Having been poor and having been disabled, I can readily understand and feel the anger of the poor and the disabled.

Having never been black, or female, I cannot so readily understand and feel that anger.

But it seems to me if we all stick together and quit splitting off, we might just get some ECONOMIC and some SOCIAL justice. I'm still smarting, you know, from Bernie's defeat because of the 'he's a racist' meme that went around - to me clearly a right wing (Russian?) smear designed specifically to divide us so that we could be conquered.

So, our candidate Clinton won by nearly 3 million votes, but was defeated because the Republicans cheated yet again. This is the third time they've cheated in a presidential election since 2000. They are ripping apart everything good this nation ever had going for it, and systematically raping our treasury and the earth itself.

But now...hey, how about that Joy Reid??? Gosh, blah, blah, blah.

You see how gullible we are as a group. We're debating the Joy Reid blog from a decade ago WHEN OUR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND MORAL FABRIC IS BEING RIPPED APART RIGHT IN FRONT OF US.

Not to lecture you per se, and please do excuse the rant. But I'll tell you (and whoever else reads this) that we must stick together and stop falling for right wing smear jobs and the old divide-and-conquer strategy that has been used by the monied classes over, and over, and over, and over against us until we might as well...what?...acquiesce and accept the primacy of the billionaire parasites, the MIC and big corporations?

NEVER.