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Originally posted by sgtclub
Let me know when you find a party whose policies you can agree with 100%. I haven't been able to find one that comes even close, so you prioritize and vote accordingly.
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Nice try, but I'm not voting for Nader no matter what you say. I will, however, accept responsibility for what Clinton did, even the stuff that I didn't agree with but was foreseeable. I won't take ownership of my local Dem rep, who voted for war --- I voted to bounce him in the primary. And I tend to vote in the Dem primaries for leftist challengers to Boxer and Feinstein, when there are some.
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I'm willing to set aside AA. I'm talking about the old fashion type of racism.
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The race argument is still hopelessly muddled, because unlike homophobia the two parties espouse pretty similar views on race: "Racism bad. In other news, we are not racists." Unless you're talking about the "Blacks are shiftless and lazy" type of racism, we're in for a long night, because I'm still more concerned about what the person
does with their view on the role of race in a person's life. Shit, I could say that anyone who uses the phrase "black community" is a racist, in one sense of the word. Example: I think Bill Cosby is a fucking hero for speaking truth, but that would brand me a racist in some circles because he had the temerity to address black folk as a group and to make one black person morally responsible for helping another black person, to a greater degree than society as a whole owes black folk. I don't think that's racist, but I guar-on-tee I can find close friends who'd think it is --- mebbe even some of them GOP.
Let me put it this way. I'm confident that 70% of people who have used the term "towel head" in a non-ironic fashion (you're welcome, Hank) voted for Bush in 2000, and 90% of the people who've said "sand nigger" even once in their lives will vote for Bush in 2004. Prove me wrong, kids. Prove me wrong!
