For eight years here on DU, I've conducted the Late Lee Atwater Award for RW Evil...
Recent events have got me thinking about it.
I'm considering giving it up. I've never gotten a big response from the thing and I've felt that it's really not worth it anymore... If you're not familiar with it, it's something that I do every Halloween.
I know that wingers will never stop being evil, will never stop inspiring the destruction of this country and the people who live within it, to include, through white supremacist hatefulness, encouraging the murder of more black people, as we have seen. I just don't think that an "award" named after one of the worst people ever, a son of South Carolinian Confederacy who used racial hated for political gain, is worth it anymore.
Atwater is rotting is his grave right now. I only wish that racism in this country would rot in its grave right along with him.
If you all want another award this year, especially in light of the expanding Republikkan Klown Kar, I'll do it. Please post and let me know your wishes.
Otherwise... You probably won't miss it if it doesn't come around again.
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Today is the anniversary of the day the people in Murrieta, CA 'greeted' the buses carrying mother and children from the border being brought to a processing station for food and water and blankets and paperwork. The RW people in Murrieta chanted and hated and chased the buses out of town, back to the border. People who live along the border responded with love and resources. And today they want to remember this! Some local Dem clubs are organizing a peaceful response. But I mean this is a little thing viewed on a national scale, and it happens everywhere. If you can, catch a rerun or look up the Daily Show from last night. Jon was excellent. Hope this was not too much of a response! 
