Funnily, even though you started the thread, Contrapuntal, I don’t feel you personally lured me for what’s turned into a minor Pitting and as you put it, slap-fighting. But, hey… I feel the way I feel.
How about if other people let it go, I’ll stop defending my idea? Until I’m given some specifics why this idea is logistically or psychologically untenable, I’ll stick to my theories, thanks.
I have little basis for blaming YOU for collusion, which I don’t. But I can still have it both ways. I was Pitted in a Pit thread that wasn’t meant to attack me personally by fools who thought they could take a swipe at me in a pile-on.
I don’t believe that, I never said that, and thinking my statements amount to that is crass mischaracterization.
I swear to God, this is what I do get sick of: people not acknowledging what I’ve consistently said before and putting their own spin on things and putting these words in my mouth. You have done this, Contra.
George Bush doesn’t hate my people: in fact, he loves him some rich black conservatives. But he is demonstrably indifferent to poor black Democrats and nonvoters. My suspicion is those people are a specific demographic that simply do not activate his Presidential radar. He does NOT do things to help them in their best interest. Point of fact: he is rescinding a pay act that would enable workers in the area to be paid a prevailing wage of $9 an hour. Which means with all the billions federal aid being pumped in the region, poor workers would be paid the least for their labor that gets much of the actual re-building done. This is just so typical of the kind of crap this man pulls it’s a wonder I’m not frothing at the mouth more. So it is not about race exclusively: it’s class and politics and race combined.
It’s not that he would deliberately pass up an opportunity to help them, it’s that he’s so long written off this specific demographic as being politically useful to him that it would never occur to him that in Chinese (so I’m told), the word for “crisis” is the same as “opportunity.” He’s just not that savvy. Further, he’s surrounded himself with people who would never tell him otherwise: how else the fuck did a horse judge with a no crisis management experience get put in charge of FEMA?
On preview, holmes gets me.