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In reply to the discussion: Exchange between Bill Clinton and New Mexico Resident Illustrates Deceptive Framing of Key Issues [View all]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)18. And you would be incorrect in your thought ...
my "pit(ting) social justice against economic justice" began long before I had even given a thought to Sanders. That is easily researched.
That was a false dichotomy in which you were asking people to choose who has to die, PoC or poor people, when in fact, the two are intertwined and can easily be fought for at the same time, which makes the most sense anyway.
That's a bullshit frame ... as those "fighting the 1%/"Oligarchs" are neither poor, nor in danger of dying. You want to pretend that it's about those poor, poor impoverished people ... but, it's really about your own purse.
Here's a thought experiment (that requires a measure of self-honesty): Would your fight be the same if the 1%/Oligarchy, "put a dollar in the poor's pocket" fight set the bar, $1.00 below what you currently earn?
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Exchange between Bill Clinton and New Mexico Resident Illustrates Deceptive Framing of Key Issues [View all]
Baobab
May 2016
OP
Democratic Party did so much better with the policies of FDR, holding majorities in Congress for
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#2
Why do you insist on promoting the same myth ... over, and over, again ...
1StrongBlackMan
May 2016
#4
While what you say is true, it doesn't negate the fact that ALL people are doing worse after
cui bono
Jun 2016
#8
I assume PoC benefitted in the end from Social Security and Medicare and numerous other programs
highprincipleswork
Jun 2016
#9
No one is saying ending or diluting these programs; but, if you haven't heard of ...
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
#14
There is talk about PoC being the most rational of all this year, and I hate to say it, but
highprincipleswork
Jun 2016
#15
I never saw it until you constantly used it to smear Bernie. But let's drop that.
cui bono
Jun 2016
#20
Yes ... Let's move to you making up stuff I didn't say, nor, have ever thought ...
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
#22
You didn't address anything I said and now you are pretty much calling me a liar.
cui bono
Jun 2016
#23
I'm not an economic primacy advocate. I advocate for everything as I have just said in my posts
cui bono
Jun 2016
#31
We cannot have another NewDeal today, all of the things done are against international private law.
Baobab
Jun 2016
#25
First of all, look at the chart and you will see that what I am promoting in this post is no myth -
highprincipleswork
Jun 2016
#10
Q: What happened? What did you ask? And were you satisfied with President Clinton’s responses, Josh?
oberliner
Jun 2016
#33
Again though, there's no reason to start that way. It shouldn't matter unless one wants to prejudge
cui bono
Jun 2016
#38
Under Clinton at least within the Federal government, Affirmative Action and Equal Employment
Jitter65
Jun 2016
#11
Which means what exactly? Is it that he found Bill's answers validate everything you've read here
AtomicKitten
Jun 2016
#30