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Originally Posted by crucifissio
there is a great documentary on netflix called the 13th...
in the beginning it was not really an agenda to enslave blacks again but just to capitalize on republican racism and win the elections...but after decades of throwing them under the bus, after decades of using them as the boogeyman, there are more blacks in prison today without freedom than there were slaves during the civil war...
most of these blacks in jail did not even get a trial...95% of them take a plea deal because the USA is so free that if everybody got fair trial the whole system would collapse...some states even had contracts with private for profit prisons to keep the numbers constant...they were literally under contract to fill prisons...
in a rare moment of honesty, even war criminal bill clinton admitted that he used the "get tough on crime" to win elections and that he went too far and said he was wrong with the drug war...and yes I am aware clinton is a democrat, this does not make the republicans smell any better...
2020 will be "throw under the bus" time again...the racist vote will be a key factor in winning...
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Agreed !
But....
They have a new boogieman to add to the mix...
Mexicans and other immigrants. Should add to the hate and vote.
But I doubt it helps.
Trump won on simply the fact that voters stayed home on the left.
Not going to happen again. The last mid-term is a clue.
They need to find more issues to divide and demonize.
I fear Trump is itching for war in Iran. help his Saudi and Israel friends.
The Senate has been trying to cut that cord.