I have nothing (Well-little) against Steyer and Bloomberg

[jcmaine72]

19. His civil rights record is certainly head and shoulders above the man you're tirelessly defending.

That's for shit sure.

Let me ask you this: If Bloomberg was still a Republican, would you be here right now defending his egregious track record? The reason I ask is that you've been a member here almost since this site's inception and you seem like a pretty sharp cat. I actually conducted a search using DU's search engine under the keywords "Michael Bloomberg", and guess what I found prior to just a year or so ago in the search results?....post after post from DU'ers stating their absolute disgust with this man and his policies as NYC mayor. I couldn't find a single post in which DU'ers summarily dismissed the countless documented civil rights violations that occurred under his mayoralty as a mere "mistake" or some forgivable error in judgement made by an otherwise admirable man. Why is that?

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the only thing that has really changed about Bloomberg from what he was 10-15 years ago is the parenthetical letter (D) adjacent to his name. Is that really enough to overlook the blatantly racist policies that he enacted and vigorously defended for 12 years as NYC's mayor? Would we overlook something like this in Trump's past?

I wonder....