Reply #54: legitimate question. no legit answer [View All]

Your party is more than willing to be an advocate to the Palestinians, to black people, and to most any other oppressed people in the world, but you run from us. Why?

I will tell you why. It is because it is easier and more comfortable to ask someone else to give something up than it is to give it up yourselves. Restoring land claims would mean plenty of democratic voters might lose land, homes, businesses.

You've answered your own question perfectly correctly. We the people don't exist anymore and our government is currently dismantling our rights as landowners, homeowners, workers, consumers, patients, and citizens at an increasingly brisk pace, dem and republican alike. I don't place the blame entirely on the corrupt regime we have now, not anymore. We the people didn't lift a finger to do the right thing for your people while there was still time and we've selectively blinded ourselves to other injustices carried out in our names and just as indiscriminately advocated for certain people and causes as long as it didn't really cost us anything. We're all in the same boat now and we are doomed.

After the last presidential election there was talk here of the perceived benefit of dumping women's and gay rights to win more elections. The tent, and whom it covers, is getting smaller by the day.

Welcome.