It's simply amazing how many people know better than black people...

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19. Nailed it. Again. But when you try to tell these people that, the howls of "THird WaY!1 THRid Way!1"

fill this place up.

As far as mainstream Democratic thought goes, this forum is about as mainstream as it gets. I have always found it fascinating that the black posters on DU are called every name in the book and made to feel as though we are somehow different from the mainstream Dem party when in fact, the beliefs of the folks in this forum simply could not be more consistent with mainstream Democratic thought.

So I always keep that in mind when I see people advocating for "revolution" where admittedly millions will suffer and die but that's what needs to happen so that things can "get better," dismiss the ideals of poc, women and gays as "distractions secondary to the important goals" (which, as you said mostly involve them) and openly long for the Good Old Days miserably ignorant that those days were so good for white/straight/male people because they were a living hell for everybody else, it's pretty apparent that in addition to being ignorant as hell, their privilege makes them just about the last people in the world I'd ever want to ally with.