"They all appeal to paranoid white voters who want to put black and brown people in their place."

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By Ruth Conniff


(The Progressive) “There is still time left to turn things around,” Scott Walker told a screaming crowd in Waukesha as he announced his candidacy for President of the United States.

“To do this we need new, fresh leadership . . . that can actually get things done, like we have here in Wisconsin.”

Wisconsinites, about 60 percent of whom tell pollsters they would not vote for Walker for President, might wonder what their governor is talking about.

Our state lags the nation and is at the very bottom of the Midwest in job creation. Walker’s scandal-plagued job-creation agency has been a disaster—giving away subsidies to companies that took the money and then offshored jobs. And Walker has failed to deliver even 50 percent of the 250,000 new jobs he promised to create when he first ran for governor.

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What do voter ID, drug tests for food stamps recipients, warnings about Islamic terrorists coming for your children, Castle Doctrine, and concealed carry have in common? They all appeal to paranoid white voters who want to put black and brown people in their place.

The Obama presidency has exposed a bitter strain of race hatred in American politics, and Republicans, including Walker, are dancing with the devil when they play to their racist base. ...............(more)

- See more at: http://progressive.org/news/2015/07/188220/scott-walker%E2%80%99s-racist-announcement#sthash.00oBfCCt.dpuf

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1. Well said. Bernie will make mincemeat out of that shithead.

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2. I worked with a guy that bragged about flying a confederate flag on Martin Luther King

day. Used a few explatives and racial slur as applied to black people. His last name was Sheets, believe it or not. I think of him when I hear the heratige not racism crap. This guy was a white dude from Idaho that probably had no clue if he had a relative in that war or not.