2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: BlackLivesMatter was given million$ by Soros after Ferguson. soros=Hillary Benefactor. [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)money having to change hands
but what's common is a rhetoric you can hear on DU and Twitter and Tumblr--that who/what you are isn't just important, but the primary determinant of your politics, economics, etc.; race and gender aren't constantly-negotiated dimensions to life but a permanent label--or brand, perhaps
therefore Clinton can be "the minority candidate" because she's female while setting up regimes and starting wars that kill plenty of women and POC and gays, and how she can specifically be "the Black candidate" despite the welfare reform and parties with redliners and war and neoliberalism and CCA and the "all lives matter"
that's why they can say "Sanders has a race problem" without pointing to any of his policies or his opponents' (and of course if you demur that's just magically proving their point you lefty white supremacist!)
now there's definitely a "Portlandia" effect with some liberals, damning the South for segregationism but carefully avoiding anyone who fails the paper-bag test: but these are "champagne Dems" rather than the social democrats since socdems always read--in fact the Portlandia types are likeliest to blindly vote Clinton because she's a Dem and the Dems are the party that's supposed to not be the party of war and gay-bashing; it's in fact Soros himself that best represents this Bono-loving bluewashed billionaire's club, trying to crush Venezuela in the name of human rights and open societies, and his typically-clean foundations are paid with a billion he made from crashing the ruble and another bil from tanking the pound
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