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In reply to the discussion: What are you going to do this week to support expanded background checks? [View all]BainsBane
(54,090 posts)Democrats see government as necessary and capable of achieving public good. That's what distinguishes us from Republicans and Libertarians. I had assumed I was speaking to a fellow Democrat and didn't have to defend a core principal of Democratic ideology.
Slavery, segregation, and voter disenfranchisement are bad. So is allowing people to die from lack of medical care, or from gun violence because the state isn't interested in keeping weapons out of the hands of felons. States Rights are an excuse to keep certain groups of people segregated, poor, and in misery. I assumed all Democrats agreed on that. So I guess I don't know who I am talking to. The key denominator in all of those is a war on people of color. Gun violence disproportionately targets African Americans. So there is very much a common thread.