The Democratic Socialist Platform Echoes the Madness of the Khmer Rouge

Sounds like you live in cloud-coo-coo-land.

 

1. Identity politics certainly CAN BE racism, depending on how it's handled. If the political actions are based on prejudice beforehand, then it definitely IS racism. But if it simply reflects the reality that different Americans regard themselves members of a particular ethnic, religious, language, or ideological group because they feel comfortable there, and politicians court those groups for political support, then it ISN'T racism. If prejudice becomes the foundation for political action, then it would be racist.
2. Yes, I agree. However, if that university has had a long-term policy of denying admission to potential students based on racial prejudice, and politicians pass laws forcing that university to allow more dark-skinned students admitted to counter former years of racist policies, then it's not racist, just justice.

 

White Americans have divided all Americans by color & gender & often ethnic, religious, and other arbitrary ways of dividing us into groups & sub-groups. The current divisions are long standing & created by whites to subdue or suppress non-whites throughout history. Democrats didn't come up with the idea. We don't even like the idea. But it's reality in America, and we (Democrats) are trying to find ways to make all those groups, created by white to divide & keep unequal, become more equal now. I am a Democrat, and I'm neither anti-white or anti-anyone. I want all Americans to feel equal in value to any other, and have equal access to life's benefits & freedoms--regardless of which group or groups they regard themselves as part of.

 

Chavez destroyed Venezuela.

What's the per capita income in Cuba? $300 per year? I make more than that in a few hours.

China? Good God, what a polluted hell hole. No human rights protections.

 

That would simply encourage & empower the radical businessmen to rip you & me off even more, because no one would be overseeing their robber baron tactics.

 

Yeah, because that’s how businesses keep their customers and make money—cheating and stealing, not by providing goods and services of value.

 

I do not remember that I have heard anything about race or gender from any republican.
Democrats repeat that nonsense every day. It is about time to stop, and unite people against system of corporate slavery.
I think the system is designed that way, once more people wants to join Democrats, their elite always come up with some kind of idiocy, like black life matter, pederast rights etc.

 

Isn’t it the character of the soul, not color of the skin. And shouldn’t each individual use their talents to rise as high as their ambition takes them, not their race? And don’t those who are very good at life have the right to reach as high as they can rise, even if it means they tower above others? And isn’t it true that it is the inequality that is good, and equality that is immoral?

Yaron Brook: Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

 

I've yet to see a death certificate that says "Died from capitalism."

 

Not all, but CERTAINLY SOME. How else would you explain the Great Recession of 2008?

 

If Republicans aren't color sensitive or gender sensitive, how do you account for the almost totally all white composition of their convention delegates in 2016? How do you account for only one black man in Trump's Cabinet? I can't think of any major leadership or managerial position Trump has filled with darker skinned appointees of any background or minority group. Can you? Republicans took up the white supremacist cause in 1968, to counter the impact of the Civil Rights Movement in the South led by Democrats. It worked well for them in the ballot boxes, so Republicans accepted seggregation & racism as part of their political program and never looked back, in spite of the moral & ethical questions that raises.

I agree it would be better to live in a color blind society here in America. But that's not our history or our reality. Democrats are trying to acknowledge each racial or gender group & respond to them as equals. Republicans still support whites primarily with a little token attention toward everyone else as needed to gain votes. I'm not being harsh here--just honest.

 

I agree with your entire post except the last statement. I'm not endorsing artificial equality for all. I'm endorsing a more fair distribution of our national wealth so it benefits the majority of Americans instead of the fortunate few who are mostly born into wealth. America was the nation of dreamers & dreams. The dreams are gone--stolen by the wealthy few who limit opportunity because they don't want competitors. So, competition no longer works for us--only for the rich, who can survive the financial drain long enough to eliminate their competitors. We need to encourage cooperative programs that both address an issue and allow us to work on answers together for the benefit of all. Continuing to simply support the age old, time worn policies that enrich the rich, while ignoring the impacts such policies have on everyone else, is immoral & dangerous. We need change.

 

Come on man.
Whole point of Civil Rights i.e. Affirmative Actions is to segregate people and put black people behind white.
I do not understand how people do not see that trick, whites will be always better off then black on average, since white women get the most privileges. Black people have gotten welfare, so they are very happy. They are happy, but they will never be equal, since they are treated as handicaps.

 

That is utopia, it is even worse then Communism.
Due to impossibility of implementation.

 

Compared to before the revolution? And what's the cost of living in Cuba (touristy areas aside) compared to what you have to pay? A Cuban gets free education to the university level, free health care, free food (to a point) and laws restricting (but not banning) foreign land ownership keeps re estate prices down as rich capitalists looking for a retirement home or vacation investment can't buy up all the good land and jack up rents. That $300 (actually about $6,500) doesn't have to buy much of anything and what it does tends to be cheaper. Any Cuban with a job will have the basics covered without any real financial burden on themselves.

 

So Cuban's are living the dream huh?

 

The typical Cuban is better off than they were under capitalism. And they live longer than pretty much anyone else outside Asia.

 

You think so?

and then afterwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba

So, in order to improve the welfare of the people, Cuba had to resort to capitalistic reforms.

 

Ah, liberty is unrealistic

 

Socialism suffocates; Capitalism breathes.

 

The Cuban people are treated like pets. They’re given “free” this and that, but they’re still just caged animals without any human rights.

 

AOC, herself, doesn't have a plan. But she is a very effective puppet for her shadow PAC she represents, and clearly, they wish they were Pol Pot and had his authoritarian seat from which to thin the heard from.

The green new deal is structured on the need to induce genocide because the future world they envision has an actual population target. It only happens at the point of government guns, and the apocalyptic left all seem hell bent to push us there.

 

Hmmm. Amusing.

 

Why don't you come up with a plan?
So far only the Republican party has genocide plan, they want to take away health care, take away earned social security and let everyone die prematurely.

 

Here’s an idea, a constitutional republic with free trade, free thought, and free men. Think that might work? Wait. That was America when men of The Enlightenment created her. My God. How far we have fallen.