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For a different opinion, see: http://blackagendareport.com/black_millennials_reject_duopoly T -----Original Message----- >From: Clay Claiborne via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> >Sent: Sep 6, 2016 1:59 AM >To: Thomas F Barton <thomasfbar...@earthlink.net> >Subject: Re: [Marxism] seeking Henry Kissinger's endorsement > >******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** >#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. >#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. >***************************************************************** > >This is what I'm seriously trying to understand. Just as an example A.R.F. >you give this summation: > > the Republicans are in a similar place as us, but for >> different reasons: they, too, do not see "their" candidate on the ballot. I >> think it was obvious that most of the traditional Republican Party types >> were backing Rubio and Cruz. Now they're being expected to endorse the guy >> who insulted them and their families, who accused the last GOP President of >> failing to stop 9/11 (while hanging out with people who think he was in on >> it), who mocked one of the last GOP nominees for being captured and >> tortured by communist guerrillas in Vietnam, and who spent much of his time >> in the orbit of the Clintons. On the other hand, they have Clinton, who >> they and their party machine have spent decades painting as a Communist (if >> only!). >> >> So I would not put too much stock into who the Republicans end up >> endorsing, whether Clinton, Trump, Johnson or nobody. They are in panic >> mode as their party collapses. > > >And the national question doesn't enter the discussion at all. Its like the >above is just about how white people see the election. Differences around >McCain get mentioned, differences around the national question ignored. I >mean why is the GOP collapsing? Doesn't the national question loom large on >that question? How about the Brexit vote? the AfD victory? I see a growing >white nationalist influence in all of this, but generally speaking, people >on this list don't. People of color don't spend 2 paragraphs on this >election without touch on the questions of white nationalist, Trump's >hateful message and dangerous threats. I'm trying to understand why it is >so different here. I know you are all tired of hearing from me about it but >I'm just trying to understand the disconnect. > >Regards, > >Clay > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
