Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:10 AM
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Author | Time | Post |
 Interesting Opinion Piece ... Actually, a series of OP ... (Original post) |
1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | OP |
| irisblue | Jun 2016 | #1 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #3 | |
| JustAnotherGen | Jun 2016 | #2 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #4 | |
| JustAnotherGen | Jun 2016 | #17 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #18 | |
| Name removed | Jun 2016 | #5 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #8 | |
| brer cat | Jun 2016 | #6 | |
| giftedgirl77 | Jun 2016 | #7 | |
| BlueCaliDem | Jun 2016 | #9 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #10 | |
| BlueMTexpat | Jun 2016 | #11 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #14 | |
| BlueMTexpat | Jun 2016 | #15 | |
| FairWinds | Jun 2016 | #12 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #16 | |
| FairWinds | Jun 2016 | #19 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #21 | |
| Person 2713 | Jun 2016 | #13 | |
| mcar | Jun 2016 | #20 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #22 | |
| mcar | Jun 2016 | #27 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #32 | |
| mcar | Jun 2016 | #47 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #48 | |
| mcar | Jun 2016 | #49 | |
| Blanks | Jun 2016 | #33 | |
| uponit7771 | Jul 2016 | #64 | |
| sheshe2 | Jun 2016 | #23 | |
| freshwest | Jun 2016 | #24 | |
| JustAnotherGen | Jun 2016 | #25 | |
| 99th_Monkey | Jun 2016 | #26 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #34 | |
| 99th_Monkey | Jun 2016 | #37 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #43 | |
| 99th_Monkey | Jun 2016 | #45 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #46 | |
| 99th_Monkey | Jun 2016 | #50 | |
| DonCoquixote | Jul 2016 | #58 | |
| 99th_Monkey | Jul 2016 | #67 | |
| seabeyond | Jul 2016 | #66 | |
| Post removed | Jun 2016 | #28 | |
| Orrex | Jun 2016 | #29 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #36 | |
| JustAnotherGen | Jun 2016 | #41 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #44 | |
| fbc | Jun 2016 | #55 | |
| JustAnotherGen | Jun 2016 | #56 | |
| sheshe2 | Jul 2016 | #57 | |
| Digital Puppy | Jul 2016 | #59 | |
| LanternWaste | Jul 2016 | #60 | |
| psychmommy | Jun 2016 | #30 | |
| JustAnotherGen | Jun 2016 | #40 | |
| psychmommy | Jul 2016 | #68 | |
| JustAnotherGen | Jul 2016 | #69 | |
| psychmommy | Jul 2016 | #71 | |
| JustAnotherGen | Jul 2016 | #72 | |
| psychmommy | Jul 2016 | #73 | |
| JustAnotherGen | Jul 2016 | #74 | |
| psychmommy | Jul 2016 | #75 | |
| Orrex | Jun 2016 | #31 | |
| Blue_Adept | Jun 2016 | #35 | |
| nolabear | Jun 2016 | #38 | |
| ismnotwasm | Jun 2016 | #39 | |
| DonCoquixote | Jun 2016 | #42 | |
| lovemydog | Jun 2016 | #51 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Jun 2016 | #53 | |
| lovemydog | Jun 2016 | #54 | |
| The Polack MSgt | Jun 2016 | #52 | |
| Liberal_Stalwart71 | Jul 2016 | #61 | |
| Jamaal510 | Jul 2016 | #62 | |
| uponit7771 | Jul 2016 | #63 | |
| forjusticethunders | Jul 2016 | #65 | |
| heaven05 | Jul 2016 | #70 |
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:13 AM
irisblue (31,052 posts)
1. Progressive Unicorn Brigade
 bookmarking this to read tonight
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Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:18 AM
JustAnotherGen (30,586 posts)
2. That was an excellent read
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #4)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 12:11 PM
JustAnotherGen (30,586 posts)
17. The first blog posting
Response to Name removed (Reply #5)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:43 AM
8. Thank you for proving the OP's point, Mr./Ms. whiteman that must make something perfectly clear ...
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Last edited Thu Jun 30, 2016, 12:21 PM - Edit history (1) to this Black man, while posting in the African-American Group.
Zero self-awareness. ETA: Oh Yeah ... Welcome back!  Or, rather ... Bah Bye! |
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:40 AM
brer cat (21,625 posts)
6. Excellent! K&R
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:45 AM
9. Milt Shook is AWESOME!! Thanks for the links, 1SBM. Everything I read in his three OPs
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remind me of what some posters on this site have been posting.
I've been pretty much called just about everything Shook's been called, and it's always baffled me when that name-calling - totally without basis in truth - was directed at me from fellow Liberals. It had gotten so bad that I had to leave DU for a year or two just to not be crucified for supporting President Obama and understanding why he had to make choices that wasn't as far-left as many here would like. Yes, as Deaniac (former DUer) had said looooong long ago, he's a pragmatic progressive, but so am I. It's why I'm a Democrat, not a Greenie or a Socialist, but a Democrat. It's why the Democratic Party is the only Party strong enough and big enough to defeat the well-funded Republican Party. It just tells me we're more popular, more powerful, more organized, and willing to move forward pragmatically than burn the bridges to get our way than the more leftist Parties. It's why we've survived so long. Thanks again for the excellent find and for sharing it with us! Bookmarked for future reference. Oh, and edited to add: 
Just cuz it's so dang CUTE. |
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:57 AM
11. These are outstanding rants, 1SBM!
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It's as if the writer has been living in my mind! Only he expresses himself much better. Thanks so much for posting the initial link and, thanks to you, I have bookmarked this blog and have become a Milt Shook fan.
 I'll be reading it from now on. 
From this rant at the same blog: http://pleasecutthecrap.com/while-far-lefties-were-sleeping/ Many of the people who need our help the most – you know, the poor people PUBs and pro lefties claim to be advocating for, still don’t have access to healthcare, and it’s not because we don’t have a single-payer system, it’s because a number of Republican-led states have refused to provide Medicaid to the poor in their state. Everyone in poverty in every state in the union would have access to free or really cheap healthcare if Republicans were not in charge.
And that is the key. For all of their hemming and hawing and your pretending to care about those who have nothing, they have apparently been sleeping and not noticed that, while they have been dreaming about frog-marching Bush and Cheney to The Hague and parading “banksters” to prison in orange jumpsuits during their slumber, the poor in this country have been royally screwed by a major political party that is not the Democrats and is most certainly not Hillary Clinton. Wake up and get a clue, far lefties; Democrats are not the enemy. Not even close. If you really want to make the United States more progressive, start by embracing Democrats and getting rid of the current GOP. That’s the first step in any such plan. And this one: http://pleasecutthecrap.com/tilting-at-the-third-way-windmill/ I am an idealist, just like them. The only difference is, I have both feet planted in the real world, where making demands results in absolutely nothing getting done. The real difference between the morons on the far left, with all of their screaming and demands, and me is that I can appreciate the concept of nuance.
Why have these idiots not realized that nothing they demand ever actually gets done? And why would it get done? The key to a democratic system is getting the most people to vote for your side, but who the hell wants to support a group of people who are always screaming at others, for Chrissakes? I mean, when two crazy people are shouting at each other on the sidewalk, are you more likely to cross the street to get away from them or do you listen more closely, to see who’s making the better point? Again, I live in the real world; like most people, I cross the street. Darn you, 1SBM! I may end up reading EVERY post in this blog!  |
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 12:04 PM
13. bookmarked site . ThAnk you for the link
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 12:30 PM
mcar (41,065 posts)
20. This is so good!
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #22)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:42 PM
mcar (41,065 posts)
27. I find it so hard to fathom how grown ups can think like that
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #48)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 03:17 PM
mcar (41,065 posts)
49. That's just sad
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #22)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:50 PM
33. There certainly is a lot of Obama bashing around here...
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #22)
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 09:57 PM
uponit7771 (88,964 posts)
64. +1, even thinking someone who has no followers and no delegates and no down ballot money can
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 12:47 PM
sheshe2 (79,398 posts)
23. Milt Shook
Response to freshwest (Reply #24)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:20 PM
JustAnotherGen (30,586 posts)
25. oooh
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Freshwest!
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Response to 99th_Monkey (Reply #26)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:55 PM
34. Hell ... I proudly "outted" myself more than a year ago ...
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If being (DU) "progressive" means ... advocating income equality AND championing sacrificing the poor and working classes (i.e., "Let's go over the fiscal cliff!"
 ; and/or, advocating income equality AND championing sacrificing PoC, women, and the LGBT community (i.e., "Income Equality IS the most important issue of our time"; and/or, advocating a set of policy goals that begins with "IF" (and that "IF" involves a series of unlikely occurrences) AND criticize Democratic policies (established in the current political environment), as inadequate; but, in their imperfection, do benefit the majority of the poor and working classes (i.e., the ACA, Executive Orders, etc.); and/or, spending the vast majority of your posts (especially during election season), criticizing Democrats, Democratic candidates, and "other" Democrats for supporting Democrats and/or Democratic candidates, as has been presented by DU "progressives"; then, ...
you are quite correct ... I am in no way a DU "progressive"! Thank the universe! http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1277&pid=5911 Notice how closely my grievance(s) matches that/those of the OP. I said it before him, and agree with him now. |
Response to Post removed (Reply #28)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:48 PM
29. This white progressive says hell yes they are.
Response to Post removed (Reply #28)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 02:22 PM
JustAnotherGen (30,586 posts)
41. Group Host - Please Clarify This Statement
Response to fbc (Reply #55)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 06:18 PM
JustAnotherGen (30,586 posts)
56. That's not how DU works
Response to fbc (Reply #55)
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 12:06 AM
sheshe2 (79,398 posts)
57. If and when Skinner changes that...
Response to psychmommy (Reply #30)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 02:20 PM
JustAnotherGen (30,586 posts)
40. Other issues were more important to other people
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but he did speak to my issues and to me, they are the most important thing.
See - from where I sit - my issues are the most important thing . . . in selecting a candidate. I would never have the arrogance to tell you - psych YOURS should be mine. Just please -out of respect - don't shove down my throat that your issues are more important than mine in selecting a candidate. 
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Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #40)
Tue Jul 5, 2016, 04:11 PM
68. I vote in relation to my issues.
Response to psychmommy (Reply #68)
Tue Jul 5, 2016, 04:20 PM
JustAnotherGen (30,586 posts)
69. You've experienced America differently from me
Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #69)
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 01:41 PM
71. our issues will never be represented if we
Response to psychmommy (Reply #71)
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 02:08 PM
JustAnotherGen (30,586 posts)
72. I'm involved in an FDR discussion in GD
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My interest - I make enough each year that I stop paying at the end of Q2 into SSDI.
My stake - will my targeted monthly payments be there when I'm older? Will Fed Gov allow me to keep the current targeted monthly return - if they stop the stupid practice of stopping the collection at $118,500? Will Fed Gov then make a targeted effort to make up the unfair and unequal wages our senior (of all races) women made? I need DETAILS. See out there - someone is asking in ALL CAPS for explicit reasons as to why we wouldn't trust the dominant culture to vote these concepts into reality with an equal application to all. I need specific ways that previously ignored individuals will get their just rewards in this country. I'm trying to wrap my head around - a bunch of people who fucked America up (that's all I've read, heard seen from the far left and far right in this country for about three years) - Asking me to trust them to not fuck up again.
That's like asking me to hire a bank robber to be a bank teller. Only a fool would believe. So what are my interests - Black. Affluent. Work in Corporate America. Married to a foreigner so now have dual citizenship (need the ability to move freely among countries). What are you asking me to vote for? What are my interests? |
Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #72)
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 02:22 PM
73. I am not asking you to vote for anything.
Response to psychmommy (Reply #73)
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 02:25 PM
JustAnotherGen (30,586 posts)
74. You just made assumptions
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:48 PM
31. I'm going to recommend this post 15 times.
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 02:04 PM
35. Thanks for posting this and links to the others
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 02:11 PM
nolabear (41,097 posts)
38. I SO want to have the courage of this conviction. I'm trying to speak up more but...damn.
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 02:14 PM
ismnotwasm (41,128 posts)
39. Omg--I love this guy
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And they never stopped beating up on Obama and the Democrats. Those of us who followed his campaign closely knew we were getting a progressive centrist (No, PUBs, that is not an oxymoron!), but they apparently envisioned him showing up on inauguration day wearing a dashiki and giving a “black power” salute. I used to laugh at the right wingers who derided liberals for treating Obama as if he was a messiah, until I realized they were right, if you think the professional left actually reflects progressive thought. I mean, President Obama, in concert with the Democratic Party, got us out of the deepest recession in the post-War era more quickly than anyone believed possible, and they did so with absolutely zero help from the Republican Party. For all of the professional left talk about Democrats being “anti-worker,” they managed to rescue unionized auto workers from losing their jobs at a time when the economy was still tanking.
And the rest is right on |
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 05:07 PM
51. Great article. Thanks to you
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 05:13 PM
The Polack MSgt (12,216 posts)
52. Wow, as I said in a comment on his blog
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 09:53 PM
uponit7771 (88,964 posts)
63. The part about a black man sticking it to the establishment rings loud and true
