Posted on 09/16/2018 9:13:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said late Saturday that the "Make America Great Again mindset" is flawed and "rooted in fear."
“This sort of thinking, this 'Make America Great' mindset is not only flawed, it’s rooted in fear. And it favors an imagined past over a realistic future," Holder said while speaking at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner.
Holder also questioned what time period people who want to "make America great again" would rewind to if given the chance, referring to President Trump's campaign slogan.
ADVERTISEMENT “Certainly it was not when people were enslaved,” he said. “Certainly it was not when segregation was the law of the land. Certainly it was not when women were disenfranchised. Certainly it was not when the LGBT community was routinely stigmatized.”
Holder has said he is considering running for the presidency in 2020. He served as attorney general from 2009-2015 under President Obama and currently runs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, an organization he created that encourages pro-Democratic redrawings of congressional districts.
Holder on Saturday also encouraged people to vote in the November midterm elections
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It would be great to hear what women voting has allegedly improved.
Ghostwritten by Obama? It’s the same tone as the “bitter clingers” speech, and there’s a whole cornfield of strawmen, which was one of Obama’s rhetorical hallmarks.
I feel that I am an American. Therefore, any attempt to make America Great Again would likely benefit me, so I support such things.
Eric and his friends obviously do not consider themselves to be Americans. They are something different. Citizens of the world, perhaps? In any case, any effort to Make America Great Again obviously feels like a threat to Eric and his friends.
The “realistic future” the left envisions is poverty and oppression. Obama said it was the normal and we had to just accept it.
Holder’s campaign slogan for President in 2020 will be ‘Make America Mediocre’.
b o’s puppet echoing his master.
And at least two out of three of those problems were resolved by Republicans, you moron.
How Dramatically Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999
75 Pages Posted: 15 Apr 1999
John R. Lott
Crime Prevention Research Center
Date Written: September 1998
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=160530
I prefer MAGA to the Far Left’s let’s all subside into the cesspool of our worst excesses.
Absolutely not. The economic engine of the United States has been well documented, whose declined was precipitated by government regulations. What is imagined is that the message contains racist intents, and only because it serves the purposes of those detracting with that accusation.
As regulations are removed from companies we see the economic powerhouse of days gone by returning and benefiting all people involved without concern for their personal identity. That's a reality, and the future only promises greater economic heights.
Women want money from men and if they can’t get it directly they’ll take it funneled through government.
Eric speaks to those who are less than equal but bitch and moan and whine to bring their betters down
“Certainly it was not when the LGBT community was routinely stigmatized.”
Yes, America was certainly a greater nation when those enslaved in vile passions were ashamed of this, and these activities were shunned by society rather than paraded, celebrated, and forced upon people.
America was greater before the sexual revolution—back when families of all ethnic makeups stayed together and prayed together.
America was greater when millions were not killing their babies in the name of “choice”.
America was greater when we did our part to defeat Hitler... before Operation Paperclip and the ratlines embedded NAZI war criminals and their disciples within our political, judicial, educational, entertainment, law enforcement, military, and corporate systems.
America was never morally worse than it was under Obama. And America might become great again, but she has not repented as a nation and will never be great again unless she does.
“speaking at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner.”
I guess his accomplishment that qualified him to speak here was allowing hundreds of untraceable guns to flow into Mexico causing many deaths including a US Border Agent.
He doesn't see how most Americans are wise to his act and aren't buying it anymore.
If it were to so come to pass, Holder and Obama and Hillary would still be ranting "LGBT racism handmaids" ad nauseum right up to their being thrown against the wall.
1990 works
And who was a fault for that, Mr. Holder? Oh yeah, the Democrats. And who put a stop to that? Oh yeah...the rise of the Republican Party.
Certainly it was not when the LGBT community was routinely stigmatized.”
Define "stigmatized"? You mean not being able to force people to participate who don't want to? More like those who disagree are being stigmatized and if you recognize the reality of biology, that is now called "hate."
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