President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

The left has the higher moral ground on this issue. I'm not arguing that. Middle of the road Joe Sixpack, however, doesn't really care all that much about it. I know I didn't. Sorry. The bathroom issue was huge in the news and it impacted about 1/2 of one percent of the country. It's not a battle cry to get people to the polls. See Election, 2016.

 

There are 2 theories of economic government: regulate so the wealthy get richer and it will drive the economy or the democratic way of regulating so the middle gets richer thereby driving the economy.

The left needs to be democratic and color,race, gender and self identifyingly blind. Play that message.
Everyone who hears sees Black Lives Matter and isnt BLack interprets that to mean no others lives matter. It’s not the intent of the speaker to convey that, but if that what the audience hears, change the slogan, not the underlying message

 

The "left" - whatever that means in the 2018 United States - has always courted lower income Americans, whatever their color.

A low income white family in this country has a great deal more in common with an African-American family in the same economic straits than it does with a white upper-middle class family.

That point has been made again and again and again. Since about 1880.

Not sure why that message gets garbled.

 

The term "political correctness" is a pejorative. When it's used, it's used as a pejorative, and people respond to it as a pejorative. It's really that simple.

As others have said, it would be illuminating to know about the behaviors people include in "political correctness," a linguistic analysis of the differences between civility, political correctness and "wokeness," and how people respond to different behaviors when given those different labels for them.

 

I think this was one of the most profound skits that SNL has ever done.

Identity politics fucking suck.

 

You're thinking of Willams-Sonoma. The double boiler is to die for.

 

When you say something that pisses me off, you’re being offensive.

When I say something that pisses you off, you’re being politically correct.

Either way, it’s always about you.

I wish that everyone would stop being so self-centered.

 

On a more fundamental level, do we really not have any skepticism of a claim that 80 percent of Americans agree on any particular political issue?

 

That reminds me of the Malcolm X story where a white female college student tracked him down, said she wanted to help, and was told by Malcolm that there was nothing she could do.

When I saw the Spike Lee film, a lot of the audience laughed in the scene when Malcolm blew her off, but in his autobiography, he said he regretted telling her that and that he wished he could find her and accept her offer of help.

 

Trump hates boring. Trump is boring.

 

I agree that Joe Sixpack doesn't care about, or in my experience frankly doesn't understand, the issue. But it was the right that drove it into the national conversation specifically as a wedge issue to motivate social conservatives in that very same 2016 election you're pointing to.

They had lost gay marriage - and knew that they wouldn't be able to revive it - as a stalking horse, so they decided to turn their energy toward protecting our little girls from scary transfolk just wanting to answer nature's call in the appropriate toilet.

 

Due respect to the relevant parties, but there's nothing on that sign telling white folks they aren't welcome to help.