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usonian

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15. You pointed out something I left out (and will edit in)
Fri May 8, 2026, 12:50 PM
May 8
The best, the ONLY cure to WhiteChristianNationalism, race baiting, mysogyny, etc. is WINNING
https://democraticunderground.com/100216524810
March 2022

If you're tired of hearing it from me, this is from the epilogue of "Stamped From the Beginning", by Ibram X Kendi.
This is of course, about racism, but racism is the engine of the Repugnant party.
Emphasis mine:

Protesting against racist power and succeeding can never be mistaken for seizing power. Any effective solution to eradicating American racism must involve Americans committed to antiracist policies seizing and maintaining power over institutions, neighborhoods, counties, states, nations—the world. It makes no sense to sit back and put the future in the hands of people committed to racist policies, or people who regularly sail with the wind of self-interest, toward racism today, toward antiracism tomorrow. An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power, and then antiracist policies become the law of the land, and then antiracist ideas become the common sense of the people, and then the antiracist common sense of the people holds those antiracist leaders and policies accountable.

And that day is sure to come. No power lasts forever. There will come a time when Americans will realize that the only thing wrong with Black people is that they think something is wrong with Black people. There will come a time when racist ideas will no longer obstruct us from seeing the complete and utter abnormality of racial disparities. There will come a time when we will love humanity, when we will gain the courage to fight for an equitable society for our beloved humanity, knowing , intelligently, that when we fight for humanity, we are fighting for ourselves. There will come a time. Maybe, just maybe, that time is now.

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They damn sure need better messaging and strategy. They don't use power well. CousinIT May 8 #1
We need a basic simple message to run on: Ars Longa May 8 #36
I have posted about the disappearance of the party between elections while the GOP hate mill keeps on spewing nonstop. usonian May 8 #2
+1 leftstreet May 8 #6
Wow Keepthesoulalive May 8 #12
You pointed out something I left out (and will edit in) usonian May 8 #15
We've waited 300 years Keepthesoulalive May 8 #26
And rewrite history as well. usonian May 8 #28
I understand what you are saying Keepthesoulalive May 8 #30
It was a digression. usonian May 8 #33
I am aware of corporate and government complicity in the holocaust Keepthesoulalive May 8 #35
Project 2029 yankee87 May 8 #3
I am fiercely on board with that. gab13by13 May 8 #9
Nothing happens without court expansion Fiendish Thingy May 8 #19
They need a second think tank bucolic_frolic May 8 #4
I don't want any talk of understanding, compassion, reconciliation. dalton99a May 8 #5
That's not a platform TheProle May 8 #18
I think it has to be both... kentuck May 8 #22
Yep that's what I was saying. TheProle May 8 #29
IMV we need a bona fide platform Prairie_Seagull May 8 #7
See my reply #2 usonian May 8 #10
When I started my post there was only Prairie_Seagull May 8 #13
One has to type quickly here. usonian May 8 #14
Bruce was/is one of my heros Prairie_Seagull May 8 #20
Share, if it offends people! usonian May 8 #21
It needs input from unwashed Democrats gab13by13 May 8 #8
Ugh. Can we not say "unwashed?" n/t leftstreet May 8 #11
My use of the word unwashed is a literary word gab13by13 May 8 #16
NO! Fiendish Thingy May 8 #17
project management rampartd May 8 #23
Progressive Policy Institute? Center for American Progress? Third Way? Roosevelt Institute? Brookings? WhiskeyGrinder May 8 #24
Headed by Obamas!!!! ALBliberal May 8 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author awesomerwb1 May 8 #27
Set aside current management of the DNC... ultralite001 May 8 #31
It would be WAY easier if we could get 67 votes in the Senate jmowreader May 8 #32
No. We just need to stop attacking each other to protect individual causes - haele May 8 #34
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