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In reply to the discussion: Democrat's Apathy For Unions Is Suicide [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)first focus on social issues and those you are talking about is very high.
Once party leadership got loud and proud (from the rear, mind you) they did too and went from finger pointing and talking ponies to ardent allies to the exclusion of about all else accompanied by insinuation and direct assertion that focus on economic, security, and foreign policy matters is if not actually racist then at least white and comfortable oriented some how pretending away that the people most likely impacted by said white and comfortable issues are neither be it from all but inescapable poverty to disproportionate incarnation and extraction at the hands of our just us system to fighting and dying half a world away in wars for profit to being subject to civil liberties violations to holding together busted to hell homes to who's children's only hope is good public schools and certainly who has the least entries in the ever shrinking opportunity lottery.
Now the handwringers, dream deferers, and pony taunters have now flipped the script and using their seemingly newly discovered focus points as little more than a whip to flog party loyalty which is being used as a tool to defang opposition to the corporate/neocon/surveillance state agenda by framing such insanity as the price for gay rights, choice and to a lesser extent minority voting rights.
Obviously, a false and ultimately self defeating "choice" but a strongly pretended at one in some quarters anyway, if for no other reason to minimize all other concerns that might slow the roll of the global corporate domination or the funneling of wealth to the rich.