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Truth,
I see I shouldn't expect much introspection from you.
I'm simply interested in seeing whether anyone here is willing to examine what their own side may have contributed to the problems we're discussing.

#79 | Posted by BillJohnson a

Again, not my job and again, I do not believe that left wing policies or liberal philosophy holds a candle to the utter devastation wrought by regressives and conservatives

If you can provide a coherent argument, feel free, that ain't my job

I will allow the Dems have failed utterly at combating fox news propaganda for the past 35 years which has caused much of the destruction in faith in institutions.

I blame Obama for not seating a justice in the face of McConnell's theft

I blame dems for not being dovish enough for the past 30 years

I blame the dems for not having a backbone and confronting Piggy for the past 10 years, esp. Garland utterly failing his duty

I blame dems for not finding a story that protects trans people and throws them under the bus

I blame dems for too often siding with regressive conservative policies

But if you haven't noticed the problem dems have is that they are not strong enough, have become too complacent, have failed to keep up with the conservative movement. I don't blame that failure on the essential beliefs of the left, I blame it on cowardice and lack of imagination

I've said it before I'll say it again, the best parts of America are the result of liberal values, from the Declaration of Independence, to freeing the slaves, to universal suffrage to defeating fascism, to civil rights to the social safety net.

Every time they have been confronted by and overcome the conservatives

Analysis of Obama's deportations........

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

Immigrant advocates and serious researchers have known for years that the deportation dragnet cast by the Obama administration is capturing thousands and thousands of people who pose no serious threat to public safety. This week, the New York Times and the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University each independently confirmed this conclusion. They did so through comprehensive analyses of data obtained from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests (not included were deportation numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection). Both investigations thoroughly undermine the administration's claim that it is going after "criminals, ---------ers, people who are hurting the community, not after students, not after folks who are here just because they're trying to figure out how to feed their families."

The principal finding of the Times investigation is a damning indictment of an administration that has claimed repeatedly to be targeting the worst of the worst violent, foreign-born criminals. In reality, according to the Times analysis, "two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases involve people who had committed minor infractions, including traffic violations, or had no criminal record at all." In contrast, only "twenty percent"or about 394,000"of the cases involved people convicted of serious crimes, including drug-related offenses, the records show."

And as you pointed out.......there were protests. Why would there be protests if Obama only deported folks with criminal records?

More: All politics are identity politics. Republicans have long mocked this notion, treating the very concept of "identity politics" as a left-wing fixation. In reality, the GOP's success is entirely due to the cheapest form of identity politics: For decades, but especially now, they have worked to distract voters from the party's ruinous policies with appeals to their identity as white, provincial and, most importantly, Christian. This campaign has been enormously successful. White evangelicals have been the backbone of the GOP for decades not because they love tax cuts for the rich and environmental degradation, but because they have been told, repeatedly, that Democrats are demonic and there is no such thing as a liberal Christian.

This is why there's a growing panic in the Republican ranks over the campaign of James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, and it's not just fear that he could beat Ken Paxton, the state's Republican attorney general. Win or lose, Talarico " a seminary student-turned-politician " embodies an existential threat to the right's long-standing myth that to be Christian must necessarily mean voting Republican.

"As a young evangelical we were taught repeatedly and clearly: It is not possible to be a Christian and a Democrat," Brad Onishi, a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley and co-host of the "Straight White American Jesus" podcast, told me. "But candidates like Talarico are changing that. His theological acumen and keen ability to use the language of the New Testament to disarm bad-faith religious attacks is showing a new way forward."

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