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And with what authority can presidents order federal agents to secretly arrest US citizens......? My point still stands. The president is not in charge of federal officers working the streets, Trump had nothing to do with that, they were just doing cop shit, they are still doing cop shit.
No shit. That doesn't mean I have to pretend the old man is a decent person or president. If you want progressive changes you have to be willing to share your discontent. If the old man thinks everyone is happy with his ethnic cleansing, why would he stop?
Lol, I'm willing to bet I've been voting for longer than you've been an adult. And like I said, it doesn't really matter who I vote for in my locality, my state literally doesn't have a Democrat in anything higher than the city office.
Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know that the people of color could not criticize the president without being a race betrayer.......
Lol, I'm not black either. Pretty typical of white liberals to only think in a dichotomy of just black and white, and primarily only around election season.....
You do understand that you've done nothing but prove my point right? I didn't say I wouldn't vote for the guy, I just said we should be able to criticize him without people like you implying it is racist to do so.
A single study that only details how people feel about loaded political definitions is hardly an argument. Democrats overwhelmingly approve of increasing taxes on the wealthy, of reacting to our rapid climate change, to not involving ourselves with a genocide, and to policies like Medicare for all.
Americans are just overwhelmingly undereducated when it comes to political theory and language.
Lol, what have you been doing all over this thread? All I did was criticize the man and you essentially called me a race betrayer, and simultaneously doubted my ethnicity...
Lol, you really took that study as a literal reflection of American demographics...... Did you ever think that maybe people don't like labeling themselves?
Also, I've been involved in organizing in local politics for nearly two decades now. Mostly just working with NGO once the democratic party died in the state, but that happened fairly recently.
Again, my entire point was that progressives should be able lay legitimate criticism towards the president without being lectured too about party loyalty. And that it is not an accomplishment to only be considered a decent president when compared to quite possibly the worst president in the history of the country.
You response was to become a petulant little child, who was so self righteous they thought they could whitesplain racial politics to a person on color. Bravo.