There are people who agree with us on how awful HRC that see how a Trump presidency will spike racist/hate crimes as they've done post-Brexit in the UK. Voting against that guaranteed outcome is certainly a moral act.

But they're completely wrong.

It's Clinton's presidency that will spike racist/hate crimes. So much so that it frightens me.

These sorts of murders and abuse will increase under Trump; they will increase much more under Clinton. Much more.

What's the one thing that drives a violent racist? What is most likely to make them turn to violence?

They think they are hard done by. They are angry because they think they have been cheated out of something that is their birthright.

So, in a brilliant move, Black leadership has made Hillary Clinton their standard-bearer, and the new, unlikely face of the fight against racism. An incredibly unpopular figure, believed widely to be an untrustworthy, corrupt liar, who is now also widely believed to have committed election fraud, cheating her way into the nomination.

What happens when Trump's supporters believe--as they almost certainly will--that she cheated her way into the Presidency? Denying their candidate the win they think he deserves (and for all I know, might deserve--so far, there's no evidence Trump has cheated.) What happens when their fantasies of being cheated out of something they deserve actually come true? Or even appear to? And who's going to be the counterbalance for them when they react in violence? At least, when hate crimes spiked under Obama, Obama began as a generally popular and trusted figure. People despise Hillary. And the media has been saying, over and over again, that Black and Latino people, but especially Black people, are responsible for her making it this far. How is that going to play to the racists, when it's no longer "Crazy Bernie" who is being cheated out of his rights, but their own leader?

And then Black people, or at least their leadership, will turn to Hillary for help. And she'll make a few insincere speeches and tell them to kick rocks. Or alternatively, use the wave of violence as an excuse to ratchet up the police state some more, making a few extremely visible busts for the TV, and leaving the overall situation as it is. There's no way she's going to pull an Eisenhower or a Kennedy and actually attempt to make the racist murder stop. Where's the profit in that?

The "White Privilege" Meme is starting to get on my nerves
Especially since I'm living on a thousand dollars a month of Social Security Disability. Privileged, spoiled pasty-faced ingrates like myself are squarely in Trump's crosshairs. Still voting for Stein.

Why, I resemble that remark (exactly)!

Most applications of any "privilege" meme are race-baiting aimed at white people, pure and simple. Many examples are to be had at TOP, especially from the keyboards of the local proprietor, Denise Oliver Velez, and Brooklyn Bad Boy. Although people of color, their use of our "favorite" meme is doing the KKK's evil deeds for them, making friends and allies into enemies.

It is a meme that clean needs to die, yesterday, with respect to any ordinary 99%ers. (YMMV if one happens to carry a badge and a gun, for obvious reasons.)

used by overprivileged white people to erase their privielges, most of which they enjoy at the expense of others. White privilege allows them to elevate poor white people to share the guilt that rests with the privileged. That is why you will find that very few struggling white people embrace the notion, while the comfortable class (especially their overweened young) use it as a bludgeon. it's a way to deflect attention from their struggle-free existences in mostly all white communities and schools and social groups, trading off of connections to get jobs and using money to get into the best schools (through the college admissions cottage industry that exists for them).

One can acknowledge that minorities may suffer injustices because of their skin color without having to embrace the leveling of socio-economic privilege under the banner of "white privilege." The perfect example of the problem with white privilege its prominent purveyor, Tim Wise. When challenged why a white man is educating people about white privilege and the minority experience, he replied, without the slightest bit of self-awareness: well, they will listen to me because I'm white. Yes, white privilege for he, but not for thee.

I saw who he was when he disappeared from the Net Neutrality fight- when it came down to the wire- but was extra disgusted when he happy-slapped the podium at the Dem Convention, while Sarah Silverman was belittling the 'Bernie or Busters.' I thought, it's one thing for a comedian to say whatever shit they say, but it's entirely another for a U.S. Senator to pound the podium and laugh, while she's saying it. Completely inappropriate.
But then, I thought the entire Dem Convention was completely inappropriate. (See the names of the people who sponsored it)

Disagreement isn't the same thing as an attack

DKos "cleared the wrong voters out" via organized, site-endorsed bullying and outright, old-fashioned censorship (Support any candidate but ours and we'll ban you.)

I dare say.

or 2020, and will run for President in 2024 or 2028.

And so the Circle of Life will go on.

which turned out to be true, just not in the way we imagined, since he was playing against the 99%. The ACA, offering Social Security in budget negotiations, the Catfood Commission, TPP, etc.

The other argument that always went along with being the chess master was the contradictory and simultaneous argument that "he's only President! Congress creates the laws!" and then some situation came up where the White House sent "proposed legislation" to Congress, exposing even that con. Gee, you mean he could have done that all along with the ACA - sent some basic legislative guidelines with his fingerprints on them? Who knew?

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