Hüsker Dü
DA
Dixiecrats became Republicans (see: the Southern Strategy/Nixon/post Goldwater). The party of racist becomes the civil rights party and the party of Lincoln becomes the white nationalist/KKK/anti semitic party.
2020...
- Thread starter tenacious
- Start date
It's absolutely hilarious to watch you regurgitate
" White Washed " Democratic Union Election Trash.....
You really should have finished school and gone on
to college....
The Democrats where/are/will always be the Party of
" White Nationalists/KKK/ANTIFA/BLM " and many
other assorted terrorist organizations....
Since you LOVE to twist History....please explain how
JFK got elected and what LBJ said to get elected....
That's a " Democratic " nugget of History you won't
want to repeat on this forum, but I KNOW you will look it up.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Trying to convince yourself?
LOL. Trump said he’d get rid of it but he wants it to go up up up. Hard choices are difficult...you have to be a true leader to make them.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Doesn’t sound anything like leading from behind now does it.
Up up up goes the deficit. He doesn’t want to make the hard choices so he just cuts taxes and keeps spending. So he lied about reducing the deficit?
Sheriff Joe
DA
I don’t like spending like you do so you have no standing in this argument. If it was Clinton you wouldn’t even be talking about it.
He loves spending. As did W. It’s a GOP thing...
Hüsker Dü
DA
Its an opposite day thing, save means spend and least means most.
Sheriff Joe
DA
JULY 29, 2019
Pete Buttigieg: Wrong about Religion, Homosexuality, and Abortion
By Don Boys
Politicians have a constitutional right to be stupid, but Pete Buttigieg is taking advantage of that right. Pete is wrong about religion, abortion, and homosexuality. I don't want someone with three major failures in the White House.
In a recent conversation with USA Today, Buttigieg characterized conservative Christians as "saying so much about what Christ said so little about, and so little about what he said so much about." Pete was using the absence of evidence argument — i.e., since Christ didn't prohibit perversion, then criticism of LGBTQ crowd is wrong. However, that is fallacious, since Christ didn't speak about cannibalism, but I assume, though not sure, that Pete would not defend it. Pete is parroting the same silly, shallow argument that Christ's words are more important than other Scripture, but that undercuts scriptural authority. If a statement is in the Bible, it is to be properly interpreted by the context.
If it is biblical, it doesn't matter whether Christ said it or not. Moses and the Apostle Paul surely made it clear that perversion is an abnormality, an aberration, and an abomination.
Pete is said to be a "devoted" Episcopalian. I'm not sure if that means he goes to church three times a week, tithes, and says grace at every meal. Professor Gary Dorrien of Union Theological Seminary said, "In our time, the Episcopal Church is a generally progressive denomination that ordains gay and lesbian bishops, makes room for liberation theology." The denomination wandered far into left field many years ago, as almost all groups do.
Their pews are empty, as are their offering plates, sure signs of coming death.
The flagship church in the Episcopalian denomination is the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. One of their leaders invited a hundred Muslims to use the cathedral for Friday prayers, and the staff covered all crosses and anything that might offend the Islamists. Officials have marched in "gay" pride parades. The National Cathedral still in good standing with the denomination and is even the most famous in that group.
One pro-Pete commentator opined, "The Episcopal Church of America accepts gay parishioners, priests, and bishops in churches that recite the Nicene Creed every Sunday and have as authentic a claim to 'orthodoxy' as any other church and more than many."
No, that dog won't hunt.
Everyone with a modicum of knowledge about history knows that all the mainline denominations give lip service to the Bible but departed from it generations ago. Moreover, Episcopalians of today are far from what they were in George Washington's day. No denominational official is willing to admit, "As a group, we have departed from our roots and are occupying buildings built by people who were narrow-minded fanatics."
Moreover, after choosing the lifestyle of homosexuals, Pete has taken on all the baggage that most homosexuals possess. A person may experience homosexual desires, but that does not mean he was created homosexual. Furthermore, because a person reacts to that desire does not make him a homosexual. It only means he is a stupid sinner, like all of us. Even the thought of unmarried sex is wrong, whether abnormal or normal. Practicing homosexuals are people who were born heterosexual and are rebelling against the God-ordained plan for their lives.
If a person obsesses over normal or abnormal sexual thoughts, it is wrong and dangerous and indicates a corrupt mind and heart. God says, "For out of it [the heart] are the issues of life." We often do what we think about.
People change all the time, so counselors should not tell people they cannot change their sexual desires. Of course they can.
Pete Buttigieg: Wrong about Religion, Homosexuality, and Abortion
By Don Boys
Politicians have a constitutional right to be stupid, but Pete Buttigieg is taking advantage of that right. Pete is wrong about religion, abortion, and homosexuality. I don't want someone with three major failures in the White House.
In a recent conversation with USA Today, Buttigieg characterized conservative Christians as "saying so much about what Christ said so little about, and so little about what he said so much about." Pete was using the absence of evidence argument — i.e., since Christ didn't prohibit perversion, then criticism of LGBTQ crowd is wrong. However, that is fallacious, since Christ didn't speak about cannibalism, but I assume, though not sure, that Pete would not defend it. Pete is parroting the same silly, shallow argument that Christ's words are more important than other Scripture, but that undercuts scriptural authority. If a statement is in the Bible, it is to be properly interpreted by the context.
If it is biblical, it doesn't matter whether Christ said it or not. Moses and the Apostle Paul surely made it clear that perversion is an abnormality, an aberration, and an abomination.
Pete is said to be a "devoted" Episcopalian. I'm not sure if that means he goes to church three times a week, tithes, and says grace at every meal. Professor Gary Dorrien of Union Theological Seminary said, "In our time, the Episcopal Church is a generally progressive denomination that ordains gay and lesbian bishops, makes room for liberation theology." The denomination wandered far into left field many years ago, as almost all groups do.
Their pews are empty, as are their offering plates, sure signs of coming death.
The flagship church in the Episcopalian denomination is the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. One of their leaders invited a hundred Muslims to use the cathedral for Friday prayers, and the staff covered all crosses and anything that might offend the Islamists. Officials have marched in "gay" pride parades. The National Cathedral still in good standing with the denomination and is even the most famous in that group.
One pro-Pete commentator opined, "The Episcopal Church of America accepts gay parishioners, priests, and bishops in churches that recite the Nicene Creed every Sunday and have as authentic a claim to 'orthodoxy' as any other church and more than many."
No, that dog won't hunt.
Everyone with a modicum of knowledge about history knows that all the mainline denominations give lip service to the Bible but departed from it generations ago. Moreover, Episcopalians of today are far from what they were in George Washington's day. No denominational official is willing to admit, "As a group, we have departed from our roots and are occupying buildings built by people who were narrow-minded fanatics."
Moreover, after choosing the lifestyle of homosexuals, Pete has taken on all the baggage that most homosexuals possess. A person may experience homosexual desires, but that does not mean he was created homosexual. Furthermore, because a person reacts to that desire does not make him a homosexual. It only means he is a stupid sinner, like all of us. Even the thought of unmarried sex is wrong, whether abnormal or normal. Practicing homosexuals are people who were born heterosexual and are rebelling against the God-ordained plan for their lives.
If a person obsesses over normal or abnormal sexual thoughts, it is wrong and dangerous and indicates a corrupt mind and heart. God says, "For out of it [the heart] are the issues of life." We often do what we think about.
People change all the time, so counselors should not tell people they cannot change their sexual desires. Of course they can.
Sheriff Joe
DA
JULY 29, 2019
Rashida Tlaib: Israel ‘exists’ to the ‘detriment’ of Palestinians
By Thomas Lifson
As the Democrats prepare for the second round of presidential debates in her own congressional district, Rep. Rashida Tlaib takes the opportunity of the spotlight to imply that Israel should not exist, echoing the “drive the Jews into the sea” rhetoric of previous Arab wars on Israel.
Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper in downtown Detroit, Tlaib reiterated her support for the BDS movement and laughably claimed that she would support resolutions supporting boycotts of human rights abusers like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, except that there aren’t congressional resolutions doing so. This is absurd, since she could introduce such resolutions.
Rashida Tlaib: Israel ‘exists’ to the ‘detriment’ of Palestinians
By Thomas Lifson
As the Democrats prepare for the second round of presidential debates in her own congressional district, Rep. Rashida Tlaib takes the opportunity of the spotlight to imply that Israel should not exist, echoing the “drive the Jews into the sea” rhetoric of previous Arab wars on Israel.
Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper in downtown Detroit, Tlaib reiterated her support for the BDS movement and laughably claimed that she would support resolutions supporting boycotts of human rights abusers like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, except that there aren’t congressional resolutions doing so. This is absurd, since she could introduce such resolutions.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Attribution:
Winning in 2020 requires humanity, introspection, truth, acceptance, and confronting Trump's racism
Jul 28, 2019 5:15pm PDT by Egberto Willies, Community
Humans are not inherently evil. Have you ever noticed that accentuating the positive in someone many times lead that person to attempt to continue on that path? Personally, I can tell you that living up to the expectations of others is what made me a better person.
The converse is also true. I remember going to a movie that depicted a story where the new principal of Eastside High School, Joe Louis Clark, tore down all the "cages" in his high school. He said if you treat the kids like animals, that is the behavior one should expect from them. It left an indelible impression on me.
Externalities have a strong influence on all humans. Minds can be manipulated for good, evil, and just outright control. These externalities, well-honed by a few, control the minds and actions of most people today. The only way we are going to get out of it is if we give our minds a chance to go through alternate paths and not believe that because we learned about things as they are, that is how they should be, and will be going forward. We'd do better opening our minds to other possibilities, especially when reality seems so tenuous.
In that light, let me first lay out a polled fact. North of 60% of Americans (not just Democrats) support most of the policies articulated by The Squad (Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib). Sen. Elizabeth Warren gave an inspiring speech on this reality at Netroots Nation that everyone should listen to with an open mind.
Joe Biden currently has a lead in the Democratic and general presidential races. That is likely because of a false, psychologically manufactured narrative that implies he is the only one who can beat Trump. The thing is, most Democrats want someone else. The most recent DFA poll of progressives should be a wake-up call.
It is a fact that the establishment of both major political parties is funded by the same rich people, in the aggregate. Policies less amenable to the poor and middle class would continue with Biden or Trump in power. Biden comes without Trump's theft and socio-ethical issues, but it is clear that Trump would do as articulated by Democratic operative Donny Deutsch.
When the former "owner of BET and black billionaire" accuses the Democratic Party of moving too far to the left, it should confirm that what we have is a class issue and all tools, including all the -isms, will be used to maintain class supremacy. And guess what: If white supremacy is the necessary tool, it is clear Kanye West and BET billionaire Robert Johnson have no problem with it.
Now, many Democrats are allowing both Republicans and the Democratic establishment to hate on The Squad. They fear that these four heroes (and yes, these young compatriots are my heroes), who are doing much of what is overdue, may cause us to lose the election. One must ask: Why would that be the case if, when polled specifically on policy positions, most Americans agree with them?
Americans are being hoodwinked. Once again we are asked to temper our wants as the plutocracy puts the fear in many to surrender. Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party and senior fellow at Prism, said it best at Netroots Nation 2019.
"The intervention we need to make is around this question of electability," Mitchell said. "Or what it takes to actually beat an ascendant white Christian identity movement that Trump rode to the White House."
Mitchell went on to point out that many, attempt to describe centrism as nonideological. He made it clear that that is not the case. In fact, the centrist ideology is corporate ideology. He said that when the Establishment talks about unity what they really mean is the surrender of our Progressive values.
The WFP National Director further made it clear that Progressives can only win if they provide Americans with the forward-moving policies they want. That is what will have them discussing the election in their social institutions which will ultimately ferry them to the polls.
Tim Wise hits the nail on the head in a recent Twitter thread.
1/ If the Dems blow this election it will not be because they were "too far left on policy" or because they "weren't left enough." It will have little to do with policy at all. They are making a mistake caused by traditional consultant theory that does not apply here…
2/ And by listening to influential pundits in liberal media who also don't get the unique nature of Trumpism, relative to normal political movements & campaigns…this election is NOT going to be won by talking about all your "great plans" for health care, jobs, education, etc. …
26/ If anything, I would say crafting an argument that this is an existential crisis for the nation--and making it about Trump's bigotry and who we want to be as a country, would be far more effective in inspiring them to make up their minds…
27/ And what I know for a FACT is that this message--that Trumpism is a threat to everything we care about and love about this country--is what will inspire the Dem base to vote…and THAT is what this election is about…
28/ I'm not saying the Dems don't need policy ideas, but focusing on wonky, look-how-much-I've-thought about-this stuff is not going to move the needle in 2020…
29/ What the left never understands is: we need to stop approaching elections like the goddamned debate team, and start approaching it like the right does, like the cheerleading squad…
30/ The right knows psychology and we know public policy and sociology…great. The latter does not win elections…
31/ People who say the Dems should ignore Trump's race baiting because its some genius political strategy calculated to distract us, are idiots. He is no genius. And if you downplay it you NORMALIZE him. If you make this about policy, you NORMALIZE him. He is a racist…
32/ He is a white nationalist. He is an authoritarian. He and his cult are a threat to the future of the nation and world because of their hatreds. His movement betrays the country's promise. THAT is the message that will drive turnout. Not debates over marginal tax rates…
34/ Not to say the House shouldn't impeach over that stuff. They should. But the 2020 candidates must craft a message that is not about that. Trumpism is the threat to America, more than Putin. And Putin didn't birth Trumpism. Conservative White America did…
Wise puts less emphasis on policy, as he goes for the carnal. While that worked in Louisiana, a national scale with a more diverse populace both ethnically and socioeconomically may require a different balance to ensure everyone sees a reason to fight.
If Democrats campaign and educate from a position of strength instead of fear, we win. The missing link is a large percentage of middle-class and poor white people. Enlightened white people, who understand that Donald Trump and both political establishments are using fear of the other and white supremacy, should assuage the fears of their white friends and relatives instead of trying to moderate The Squad and their fairly large following. After all, white people as well as "the others" are hurt by the bad policies.
The Squad’s constituents have been screwed by all administrations as their favored policies are constantly disregarded, or they are asked to wait one more time. A second Trump term will hurt them much less than it will hurt everyone else. After all, they are used to being asked to wait incessantly for something that never seems to come, simply to appease a mythical voter. As they continue to see an upside that never comes, they simply abandon electoral politics. Welcome, Trump.
Winning in 2020 will require us to, once and for all, honor everyone’s humanity. It will require introspection, as we learn how to look through the eyes of others to understand their realities and experiences. Accepting these truths will provide us the spine and camaraderie necessary to collectively and unabashedly confront Trump's racism, xenophobia, sexism, and misogyny.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Attribution:
How to connect race and class to win against divide-and-conquer narratives
Jul 28, 2019 4:00pm PDT by David Akadjian, Community
One of the best workshops I went to this year at Netroots Nation was called “The Race Class Narrative: Putting It to Work.” Put together by SEIU and conducted by Josh Keller (SEIU Minnesota State Council), Tinselyn Simms (SEIU), and Christopher Lampkin (SEIU 1199NW), the seminar helped me answer a question I’ve had for a while:
How do we connect race and class?
This is a very timely subject because Donald Trump connects these two narratives in a very powerful and scary way. He tells people that you can only “win” when some other race loses. He demonizes black people, new immigrants, migrants, Muslims, and others and tells white people that the only way they will win is if these other people lose.
I keep hearing a narrative out there that says the solution to this is that we have to moderate in order to win. Here’s an example:
An example of the moderation narrative from the 2020 campaign.
Does anyone think if Joe Biden wins the primary, Republicans are not going to run against Ilhan Omar? We’re seeing the 2020 campaign right now and we know the narrative. It doesn’t matter who we put out there, there will be some racist narrative of us vs. them. See also: Benghazi, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, birtherism, “white genocide,” and “Obama is a secret Muslim.”
Once we understand that nothing the Democratic Party does is going to change this, the question then is: How do we fight it?
One of the best answers I’ve seen is that we have to have a different and more powerful vision of America. This involves linking race and class narratives to unite people instead of divide them.
The data that tells us this is a winning strategy
Before talking about how to do it, I’m going to talk a little bit about why. It’s important to know that the reason for doing this is not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s also a winning strategy.
The strategy I’m writing about was tested in a nationally representative survey, plus four state-level deeper dives (in California, Indiana, Ohio, and Minnnesota) with subsequent follow-up online ad testing, independent surveys, and canvassing experiments. The original national survey results I’m highlighting below were drawn from a sample of 1,500 adults in spring 2018, plus over-samples of 100 African Americans, 100 Latinos, 100 millennials, 100 drop-off voters, and 100 unlikely voters.
Of this group:
- 23% were considered our base: Strongly concerned about bias against people of color, they support a progressive agenda on racial and economic justice and approve of our narratives.
- 59% were persuadables: They toggle between views shared by our base and by the opposition. For illustration, 72% of persuadables asked say that “focusing on and talking about race is necessary to move forward toward greater equality.” But 65% asked this question also believe “talking about race doesn’t fix anything and may even make things worse.”
- 18% opposition: They think wealth is a product of individual effort, hold African Americans and Latinos responsible for their own conditions, and disapprove of our policy agenda across issues.
What they found was that adding race improves the efficacy of economic populism, reducing the support for opposition. Hearing these assertions moved people toward wanting to “join together across racial differences.”
Adding race to specific phrases showed a 3% gain in effectiveness with base votersand an 8% gain in effectiveness with persuadables. In addition, when asked about wanting to “join together across racial differences,” the race-class phrasing moved 12% of base voters toward excited (79% saying they were initially excited) and 21% of persuadable voters toward excited (with 55% saying they were already excited).
Part of the reason for this is that people hold two different views about the world: They can have both progressive and regressive views on race, the economy, and government.
Contrary to what many people think, people don’t need to be convinced on many of our issues. They believe many of the things we believe. We just need to participate in the conversation, instead of staying silent and allowing their negative frames to be triggered without opposition.
What does an example look like?
Here’s an example that contains all of the elements of a full race-class narrative.
Winning Narrative Description of Elements
No matter where we come from or what our color, most of us work hard for our families. A shared value statement that invokes race and includes everyone.
But today, certain politicians and their greedy lobbyists hurt everyone by handing kickbacks to the rich, de-funding our schools, and threatening our seniors with cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Then they turn around and point the finger for our hard times at poor families, black people, and new immigrants.
Names racial scapegoating as a weapon that economically harms all of us.
We need to join together with people from all walks of life to fight for our future.
Emphasizes unity and collective action to solve problem.
By joining together, we can elect new leaders who work for all of us, not just the wealthy few.
Connects working together to government for all.
You can do this in conversations
When you’re talking with people, especially persuadables, a race/class narrative like the one above can help garner support, especially if they maybe “kind of” think it’s important but feel other things might be more important.
What links the two together is that the right is using race narratives to divide us against each other. They’re using divisive strategies.
By talking about this openly, it can allow people to see race in a different way, and to see AM radio and Fox News pundits in a different light.
I’ll often ask questions like:
- Why are there so many pundits in the media who scapegoat people?
- Why doesn’t Donald Trump run on his policies, like cutting taxes for the rich and turning the country’s regulatory agencies over to corporate special interests? Why does he hold racist campaign rallies that demonize black people, Latinos, and Muslims?
- Why doesn’t he focus on health care or education, or things that everyone needs?
When you open conversations up in this way, it gives you the opportunity to then say that we should all come together—white, black, brown—to work on a better life for everyone.
Encourage people and talk about how we did this in the past to win things like the 40-hour work week, weekends, and civil rights.
Here are some tips from the SEIU research for your story:
- Begin with a shared value before moving on to naming the problem:
- The shared value says “I’m a friend”
- Positive framing is retained better by audiences than negative framing
- The shared value says “I’m a friend”
- Call out divide-and-conquer tactics(scapegoating) and connect them to how it economically hurts us all.
- Explicitly name race when articulating an agenda to make life better for working people.
- Name the villain(s) by the tactics they employ, not just who they are:
- If you name villains by what they do (for example, corporate special interests that buy government), you don’t overgeneralize
- If you name villains by what they do (for example, corporate special interests that buy government), you don’t overgeneralize
- Connect the value of working together to achieving an effective government that works for everyone.
- Offer a specific and unifying call to action. Name the payoff from it.
Nice.....you display twisted deviant ignorance on another thread,
then come on this thread and further support it with comments about
" Debt " that you have no actual/provable knowledge or rational of....
Exhibit A.
Will be all of your previous comments/responses on how you " Manipulate "
your indebtedness through creative refinancing by over encumbering your
" supposed " properties....
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Attribution:
How to connect race and class to win against divide-and-conquer narratives
Jul 28, 2019 4:00pm PDT by David Akadjian, Community
One of the best workshops I went to this year at Netroots Nation was called “The Race Class Narrative: Putting It to Work.” Put together by SEIU and conducted by Josh Keller (SEIU Minnesota State Council), Tinselyn Simms (SEIU), and Christopher Lampkin (SEIU 1199NW), the seminar helped me answer a question I’ve had for a while:
How do we connect race and class?
This is a very timely subject because Donald Trump connects these two narratives in a very powerful and scary way. He tells people that you can only “win” when some other race loses. He demonizes black people, new immigrants, migrants, Muslims, and others and tells white people that the only way they will win is if these other people lose.
I keep hearing a narrative out there that says the solution to this is that we have to moderate in order to win. Here’s an example:
An example of the moderation narrative from the 2020 campaign.
Does anyone think if Joe Biden wins the primary, Republicans are not going to run against Ilhan Omar? We’re seeing the 2020 campaign right now and we know the narrative. It doesn’t matter who we put out there, there will be some racist narrative of us vs. them. See also: Benghazi, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, birtherism, “white genocide,” and “Obama is a secret Muslim.”
Once we understand that nothing the Democratic Party does is going to change this, the question then is: How do we fight it?
One of the best answers I’ve seen is that we have to have a different and more powerful vision of America. This involves linking race and class narratives to unite people instead of divide them.
The data that tells us this is a winning strategy
Before talking about how to do it, I’m going to talk a little bit about why. It’s important to know that the reason for doing this is not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s also a winning strategy.
The strategy I’m writing about was tested in a nationally representative survey, plus four state-level deeper dives (in California, Indiana, Ohio, and Minnnesota) with subsequent follow-up online ad testing, independent surveys, and canvassing experiments. The original national survey results I’m highlighting below were drawn from a sample of 1,500 adults in spring 2018, plus over-samples of 100 African Americans, 100 Latinos, 100 millennials, 100 drop-off voters, and 100 unlikely voters.
Of this group:
What they found was that adding race improves the efficacy of economic populism, reducing the support for opposition. Hearing these assertions moved people toward wanting to “join together across racial differences.”
Adding race to specific phrases showed a 3% gain in effectiveness with base votersand an 8% gain in effectiveness with persuadables. In addition, when asked about wanting to “join together across racial differences,” the race-class phrasing moved 12% of base voters toward excited (79% saying they were initially excited) and 21% of persuadable voters toward excited (with 55% saying they were already excited).
Part of the reason for this is that people hold two different views about the world: They can have both progressive and regressive views on race, the economy, and government.
Contrary to what many people think, people don’t need to be convinced on many of our issues. They believe many of the things we believe. We just need to participate in the conversation, instead of staying silent and allowing their negative frames to be triggered without opposition.
What does an example look like?
Here’s an example that contains all of the elements of a full race-class narrative.
Winning Narrative Description of Elements
No matter where we come from or what our color, most of us work hard for our families. A shared value statement that invokes race and includes everyone.
But today, certain politicians and their greedy lobbyists hurt everyone by handing kickbacks to the rich, de-funding our schools, and threatening our seniors with cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Then they turn around and point the finger for our hard times at poor families, black people, and new immigrants.
Names racial scapegoating as a weapon that economically harms all of us.
We need to join together with people from all walks of life to fight for our future.
Emphasizes unity and collective action to solve problem.
By joining together, we can elect new leaders who work for all of us, not just the wealthy few.
Connects working together to government for all.
You can do this in conversations
When you’re talking with people, especially persuadables, a race/class narrative like the one above can help garner support, especially if they maybe “kind of” think it’s important but feel other things might be more important.
What links the two together is that the right is using race narratives to divide us against each other. They’re using divisive strategies.
By talking about this openly, it can allow people to see race in a different way, and to see AM radio and Fox News pundits in a different light.
I’ll often ask questions like:
When you open conversations up in this way, it gives you the opportunity to then say that we should all come together—white, black, brown—to work on a better life for everyone.
Encourage people and talk about how we did this in the past to win things like the 40-hour work week, weekends, and civil rights.
Here are some tips from the SEIU research for your story:
In NO way do I want it to appear as if my response is adversarial
to his work.
..................................................................................
* " A Friend " :
Does NOT do what the above SEIU article suggests to do
to a Fellow Human Being..!
That is a Filthy Disgusting way to treat Humans...
Attribution:
How to connect race and class to win against divide-and-conquer narratives
Jul 28, 2019 4:00pm PDT by David Akadjian, Community
One of the best workshops I went to this year at Netroots Nation was called “The Race Class Narrative: Putting It to Work.” Put together by SEIU and conducted by Josh Keller (SEIU Minnesota State Council), Tinselyn Simms (SEIU), and Christopher Lampkin (SEIU 1199NW), the seminar helped me answer a question I’ve had for a while:
How do we connect race and class?
This is a very timely subject because Donald Trump connects these two narratives in a very powerful and scary way. He tells people that you can only “win” when some other race loses. He demonizes black people, new immigrants, migrants, Muslims, and others and tells white people that the only way they will win is if these other people lose.
I keep hearing a narrative out there that says the solution to this is that we have to moderate in order to win. Here’s an example:
An example of the moderation narrative from the 2020 campaign.
Does anyone think if Joe Biden wins the primary, Republicans are not going to run against Ilhan Omar? We’re seeing the 2020 campaign right now and we know the narrative. It doesn’t matter who we put out there, there will be some racist narrative of us vs. them. See also: Benghazi, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, birtherism, “white genocide,” and “Obama is a secret Muslim.”
Once we understand that nothing the Democratic Party does is going to change this, the question then is: How do we fight it?
One of the best answers I’ve seen is that we have to have a different and more powerful vision of America. This involves linking race and class narratives to unite people instead of divide them.
The data that tells us this is a winning strategy
Before talking about how to do it, I’m going to talk a little bit about why. It’s important to know that the reason for doing this is not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s also a winning strategy.
The strategy I’m writing about was tested in a nationally representative survey, plus four state-level deeper dives (in California, Indiana, Ohio, and Minnnesota) with subsequent follow-up online ad testing, independent surveys, and canvassing experiments. The original national survey results I’m highlighting below were drawn from a sample of 1,500 adults in spring 2018, plus over-samples of 100 African Americans, 100 Latinos, 100 millennials, 100 drop-off voters, and 100 unlikely voters.
Of this group:
- 23% were considered our base: Strongly concerned about bias against people of color, they support a progressive agenda on racial and economic justice and approve of our narratives.
- 59% were persuadables: They toggle between views shared by our base and by the opposition. For illustration, 72% of persuadables asked say that “focusing on and talking about race is necessary to move forward toward greater equality.” But 65% asked this question also believe “talking about race doesn’t fix anything and may even make things worse.”
- 18% opposition: They think wealth is a product of individual effort, hold African Americans and Latinos responsible for their own conditions, and disapprove of our policy agenda across issues.
What they found was that adding race improves the efficacy of economic populism, reducing the support for opposition. Hearing these assertions moved people toward wanting to “join together across racial differences.”
Adding race to specific phrases showed a 3% gain in effectiveness with base votersand an 8% gain in effectiveness with persuadables. In addition, when asked about wanting to “join together across racial differences,” the race-class phrasing moved 12% of base voters toward excited (79% saying they were initially excited) and 21% of persuadable voters toward excited (with 55% saying they were already excited).
Part of the reason for this is that people hold two different views about the world: They can have both progressive and regressive views on race, the economy, and government.
Contrary to what many people think, people don’t need to be convinced on many of our issues. They believe many of the things we believe. We just need to participate in the conversation, instead of staying silent and allowing their negative frames to be triggered without opposition.
What does an example look like?
Here’s an example that contains all of the elements of a full race-class narrative.
Winning Narrative Description of Elements
No matter where we come from or what our color, most of us work hard for our families. A shared value statement that invokes race and includes everyone.
But today, certain politicians and their greedy lobbyists hurt everyone by handing kickbacks to the rich, de-funding our schools, and threatening our seniors with cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Then they turn around and point the finger for our hard times at poor families, black people, and new immigrants.
Names racial scapegoating as a weapon that economically harms all of us.
We need to join together with people from all walks of life to fight for our future.
Emphasizes unity and collective action to solve problem.
By joining together, we can elect new leaders who work for all of us, not just the wealthy few.
Connects working together to government for all.
You can do this in conversations
When you’re talking with people, especially persuadables, a race/class narrative like the one above can help garner support, especially if they maybe “kind of” think it’s important but feel other things might be more important.
What links the two together is that the right is using race narratives to divide us against each other. They’re using divisive strategies.
By talking about this openly, it can allow people to see race in a different way, and to see AM radio and Fox News pundits in a different light.
I’ll often ask questions like:
- Why are there so many pundits in the media who scapegoat people?
- Why doesn’t Donald Trump run on his policies, like cutting taxes for the rich and turning the country’s regulatory agencies over to corporate special interests? Why does he hold racist campaign rallies that demonize black people, Latinos, and Muslims?
- Why doesn’t he focus on health care or education, or things that everyone needs?
When you open conversations up in this way, it gives you the opportunity to then say that we should all come together—white, black, brown—to work on a better life for everyone.
Encourage people and talk about how we did this in the past to win things like the 40-hour work week, weekends, and civil rights.
Here are some tips from the SEIU research for your story:
- Begin with a shared value before moving on to naming the problem:
- The shared value says “I’m a friend” *
- Positive framing is retained better by audiences than negative framing
- The shared value says “I’m a friend” *
- Call out divide-and-conquer tactics(scapegoating) and connect them to how it economically hurts us all.
- Explicitly name race when articulating an agenda to make life better for working people.
- Name the villain(s) by the tactics they employ, not just who they are:
- If you name villains by what they do (for example, corporate special interests that buy government), you don’t overgeneralize
- Connect the value of working together to achieving an effective government that works for everyone.
- Offer a specific and unifying call to action. Name the payoff from it
In NO way do I want it to appear as if my response is adversarial
to his work.
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* " A Friend " :
Does NOT do what the above SEIU article suggests to do
to a Fellow Human Being..!
That is a Filthy Disgusting way to treat Humans...
National Debt Since Trump Took Office
At first, it seemed Trump was lowering the debt. It fell $102 billion in the first six months after Trump took office. On January 20th, the day Trump was inaugurated, the debt was $19.9 trillion. On July 30, it was $19.8 trillion. But it was not because of anything he did. Instead, it was because of the federal debt ceiling.
On September 8, 2017, Trump signed a bill increasing the debt ceiling. Later that day, the debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time in U.S. history. On February 9, 2018, Trump signed a bill suspending the debt ceiling until March 1, 2019. It was $22 trillion. In just two years,Trump has overseen the fastest dollar increase in the debt of any president.
Trump's Fiscal Year 2020 budget projects the debt would increase $5 trillion during his first term. That's as much as Obama added while fighting a recession. Trump has not fulfilled his campaign promise to cut the debt. Instead, he's done the opposite.
At first, it seemed Trump was lowering the debt. It fell $102 billion in the first six months after Trump took office. On January 20th, the day Trump was inaugurated, the debt was $19.9 trillion. On July 30, it was $19.8 trillion. But it was not because of anything he did. Instead, it was because of the federal debt ceiling.
On September 8, 2017, Trump signed a bill increasing the debt ceiling. Later that day, the debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time in U.S. history. On February 9, 2018, Trump signed a bill suspending the debt ceiling until March 1, 2019. It was $22 trillion. In just two years,Trump has overseen the fastest dollar increase in the debt of any president.
Trump's Fiscal Year 2020 budget projects the debt would increase $5 trillion during his first term. That's as much as Obama added while fighting a recession. Trump has not fulfilled his campaign promise to cut the debt. Instead, he's done the opposite.
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Did the opposite like always, but they don't cover that in the rightwing media.