Just great..BLM Marxist Group & now ISIS are flush with Millions of $

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As your perspective, that's fair, as long as you are not

Sep 20, 2020, 2:00 PM [ in reply to Re: To be fair, it sort of is.*** ]

slightly worried about how much money anyone has or how they got it, from any moral or political perspective.

I am going to propose a reason why you should be worried, at least a little.

The oldest political adage is: "They will still vote for you if they don't like you, but they will never vote for you if they think you don't like them."

The Republican party violated this when they allowed themselves to become aligned, at least in perception, with official evangelicalism. The Moral Majority, et al, painted society as us-vs-them, and put a huge part of the swing vote in the 'them' category. Republicans, thinking MM was their base, allowed themselves to be seen almost in synonymous terms. That alone is not a deal breaker, except that many Americans saw that as, "They think we, personally, are a problem. They don't like us." The party paid a huge price for it, and is only now starting to recover.

The Democratic party is, imo, making the exact same mistake. The average rank-and-file Democrat might not support the stated aims of things like the BLM organization, but the Democratic party is being perceived as aligned with that part of the far left. Sitting representatives and senators have said so. Funders of Democrat candidates are believed to be funding BLM and other leftist causes. The message of the left is not perceived as "we have XYZ ideas", but "we don't like you." Again, some sitting congressmen/women have said so, and burning buildings on a broad and systemic basis certain says it.

Do most Democrat votes feel that way? Probably not. Does the far left part of the party feel that way? Yes. Is the Democratic Party being associated with the far left? Yes. The political adage may therefore be the determining factor in November. A Democratic voter should therefore be concerned with who is supplying the money to Antifa and BLM, and how much. If the sources of money to them and to Dem candidates is perceived as being the same, that alone could be death in November. If not that alone, certainly that plus the other factors that tie the two together.

In a personal example, a poster in this thread read my nearly innocuous response to you, and decided to make a personal comment about what he thinks I am, not what he knows me to be. That happens everywhere and on both sides, but we now know what that poster thinks of me, accurately or not. Political discussion is now all about, "I don't like you", going straight from a neutral comment to that response.

If I considered myself a Democrat, I would be concerned about where BLM and Antifa are getting their money, and where else those sources give money, and who might find out. If November is important, that has to be also. Ignore it, and it can bite. Ask Republicans.

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Re: Just great..BLM Marxist Group & now ISIS are flush with Millions of $

To be fair, it sort of is.***

Re: To be fair, it sort of is.***

“Fear and Loathing in Boomerville”?***

As your perspective, that's fair, as long as you are not

Oh, no Mr. Bill!***

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