Posted on 07/09/2016 2:29:56 PM PDT by dennisw
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that in the discussions after the shooting of police officers in Dallas, and the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, “it doesn’t help that we have an American political debate with basically one all-white party.”
Brooks began by saying, “The question, to me, is, are we going to speak out in a way that is actual dialogue and conversation, or are we going to drift into tribal thinking? There’s been a lot of rancid overgeneralizations in our society, that all African men behind the wheel are dangerous, that all Muslims are somehow involved in terrorism, that all cops are somehow at war with communities. And if we can speak in a way that’s not tribalistic, that’s not making these generalizations, then we may make something out of the current moment. But I’m not always hopeful after a bad week like this one.”
He later added, “[W]hen people are in a period of bad mood, then they want to hunker down and protect. And that’s the exact opposite from what we need now. And let’s be frank, it doesn’t help that we have an American political debate with basically one all-white party. And that just means we fall along very polarized lines, when we fall into the normal default position of politics, that we fall along racially polarized lines. And we have to acknowledge that’s an inherently dangerous situation, given everything else that’s happening.”
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We disagree, I say don’t let his treasonous a$$ leave the USA prior to his trial and hanging. I would just love to hear the rant when HIS a$$ is on the line to back up all the horse manure he has been slinging for the last X number of years. How will it sound, like a whimper, like a lion’s roar, silence, what?
It also doesn’t help that the corrupt Washington cartel exists for the purpose of controlling 10th Amendment-protected state powers, and state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, both of which the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds have been stealing from the states for decades and continues to do so.
...and the dumba$$ States continue to buy into the deal.
If low-information state lawmakers were to wise up put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, effectively eliminating an unconstitutional middleman, then the individual states would have much more revenues to spend on their respective citizens.
I would add a lot of this might lie in the laps of low information state Governors who would likely veto any attempt by state legislatures to rid themselves of the Federal blackmail.
Funny how the “all-white” party managed to find more non-white candidates this year than the “diverse” party.
Tribes like BLM, La Rasa, Mecca, CBC, GLADD, CAIR, and every other democrat victimhood hate group? David?
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