The longer I read the "news", the less I am informed and the more I am confused and finally end up with a big headache and getting really physically sick.

I am a low information non-voter (because I hadn't the courage yet to become an US citizen). I feel so sick these days and so discouraged, because I will never understand the most basic things, like for example, who is a racist and who is a leftist and who is right-winger and who a libertarian either left-wing or right-wing nutcase, or who is just a mess of all the categories I mentioned.

There is no way to overlook the claim in various comments here during the last days, but also during the last months, that certain people on the gos have indicated that certain people here at the C99p are racists. There have been several indications that a lot of people here felt insulted and wounded by those accusations. Like old scars that start hurting, when you touch them with the same weapons that caused the scars in the first place.

This is really painful to watch and destructive to all of us. I would like to get factual answers. So, I ask for old sources and links that prove either sides' claims. Racial tensions eat up on peoples' souls on all sides' of the aisles. This has to stop and needs to be overcome.

What triggered me to write this out in such "in your face" kind of manner?

Well, it was this diary I read first today on the gos: Trump supporter's lies about the KKK are standard GOP talking points.

It's not the diary itself, but what was quoted in there. It's the exchange Van Jones had with a certain Mr. Jeffrey Lord. I couldn't believe what I read and listened to and I can't get over the fact that Van Jones didn't scolded Jeffrey Lord much stronger than his answer to Jeffrey Lord's claim deserved, the claim that the KKK is a leftist terrorist organization. Van Jones said "absurd". That's not enough of a counterpunch to Lord's claims. Here is the interview Van Jones had with Jeffrey Lord:
[video:https://youtu.be/mUIs5K2Snpk]

JONES: The Klan is a terrorist organization that has killed --

LORD: A leftist terrorist organization.

[snip] JONES: What difference does it make if you call them leftists? They kill people. They don't play games with that.

LORD: You're right. You don't hide and say that's not part of the base of the Democratic Party. That has been -- they were the military arm, the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, according to historians. For God sakes, read your history.

[snip] JONES: The Klan kill people by race….

LORD: And they did it -- they did it to further the progressive agenda. Hello?

JONES: That is, first of all, so absurd.

LORD: It is not absurd.

JONES: The Democratic Party of the south of the old days was a racist party. And you are correct, sir. They were a violent party. You were correct, sir.

LORD: How do you think we got Woodrow Wilson elected?

(CROSSTALK)

JONES: Hold on a second. That's not the Democratic Party of today. So, what are you talking about that for? You play these games --

LORD: It is the Democratic Party of today. The Democratic Party of today divides by race.

That a guy could say something like this on CNN is so unbelievable. I wonder if that was broadcasted on CNN international. I wonder even more who of the CNN international viewers in Europe really would understand what this is all about. It's even hard for me to stay focused and read that diary to the end. What this Mr. Jeffrey Lord guy said equates in my mind to someone in Germany saying the Nazis were left-wing socialists mass murderers. Because apparently if there is the word "socialist" in a name like in the German Nazi Party, the "The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)', which evolved out of the German Workers Party, it must be left-wing. From here:

Origins in the German Worker's Party:
In 1919, Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart formed the German Worker's Party (GPW) in Munich. The German Army was worried that it was a left-wing revolutionary group and sent Adolf Hitler, one of its education officers, to spy on the organization. Hitler discovered that the party's political ideas were similar to his own - he approved of Drexler's German nationalism and anti-Semitism but was unimpressed with the way the party was organized.
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The Party Gets a New Name:
In April, 1920, Hitler advocated that the party should change its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Hitler had always been hostile to socialist ideas, especially those that involved racial or sexual equality. However, socialism was a popular political philosophy in Germany after the First World War. This was reflected in the growth in the German Social Democrat Party (SDP), the largest political party in Germany.

Hitler, therefore redefined socialism by placing the word 'National' before it. He claimed he was only in favour of equality for those who had "German blood." Jews and other "aliens" would lose their rights of citizenship, and immigration of non-Germans should be brought to an end.

So this German history with regards to the word socialism and it being used by leftist and by right-wing parties, seems to be the basis of today's messing around with left-wing and right-wing "socialist" ideologies and playing "fuck my brain" with it from some right-wing (ie clearly racist) ideologues in the US. Can that be true?
From Reifowitz diary, it seems to be really the case:

What’s really important here isn’t that a Trump supporter is making these kinds of statements, but rather that they represent what Republicans across the board have been doing for years, namely connecting contemporary progressivism with past racism espoused by old-time Democrats. We have elected officials like Republican State Senator Stephen Martin of Virginia claiming: "The fact is that both the KKK and Planned Parenthood are creations of the Democratic Party."

Additionally, we have the National Black Republican Association emphasizing the Klan and its Democratic Party ties, as well as conservative talk show hosts like Wisconsin’s Dan O’Donnell doing the same. The point is, Jeffrey Lord was far from the first to do so. Oh, and is anyone surprised that Rush Limbaugh defended Lord, both on Trump and on his claims about the KKK and Democrats?

See, how it's not only a "Black Republican Association" but a "National" one, like Hitler put the word "National" in front of the German Workers Party and the word "Socialist" into it.

I remember how upset I was when I saw the first tweet of a shit-head right-winger, who claimed the Socialists in Germany were were Nazis. Well I didn't know that the Nazis killed their own kind in the concentration and labor camps then. You know that kind of stuff gets my blood boiling.

Reifowitz ended his diary with the sentence:

...we must push back against the constant lies issued by Republicans en masse—and this goes beyond Jeffrey Lord or even Trump—about the KKK, racism, and progressives. They lie about the past in order to stop our country from moving in a more progressive direction going forward.

Now, don't tell me that some Democrats lie about "KKK, racism and progressives". My feeling is that nobody is talking like it, but some harbor such suspicions.

Wow. So much for that.

Now to my next issue, reading over at the gos. Bruh1 had a diary up: Questions posed to Black voters from a Black voter. He specifically asked for responses from black voters only. And it is interesting that known black kossacks didn't comment on his diary.

Here are his questions:

1. I recently ran into a Black voter who thinks Sanders is a conservative. She wasn't the first to say this to me. Do you think I should not tell the voter that Sanders is not a conservative? Why do you think they believe he is a conservative?
2. Are you okay with the term low information voter if it's a applied to White Reagan Democrats? What about Muslims who vote Trump? What about Latinos?
3. Are you okay with the book "What's the Matter with Kansas"? If so, why?
4. Do you question the decisions of Black Republicans to vote Republican?
5. Recently , it has been asserted that the IL Democratic Party sent flyers that would mislead black voters into believing Clinton is the only choice on the ballot. Ignoring the neutrality issue, are you okay with these flyers ? If so , why ? If not, why?
6, I've met older Black church going voters who have a problem with Sanders being Jewish and non religious . Do you have a problem with this ? If so , why ? If not, why ?
7. Do you believe that class issues are unconnected to race issues? If so ,why? If not why ?
8. how do you intend to put pressure on Clinton if she becomes President to enact pro -Black policies ?
9. Do you think black politicians have failed or succeeded at helping Black communities ? If so, why ? If not, why?

As I am white, I won't respond. But may be I forward that to my black son. You may answer here, if you want to.

Ok, I am having a yuuuge headache. So, I am letting that go.