Robert Byrd was the one who filibustered the civil rights act of 1964 dude and he died in 2010, not that long ago.
My beef is with the incredible amount of cognitive dissonance it must take to not see Trump's racist words and policies, when they are right in front of your face.
Please enlighten me and show me Trumps racist words and policies
You admit to having at least two encounters with racist police, but you still think most of the black victims of police brutality deserve it. That really takes a unique combination of callousness and cowardice.
Hold your horses, I said slightly discriminated against. Maybe if you read the rest of what I wrote then you would understand that Im not saying racist cops dont exist, just not to the extent that BLM would have you to believe. Sure theres racist people in every profession, Im not happy with it but im not going to cry systematic oppression just because of one isolated incident. Also understand that there are more ways to discriminate against someone other than race, you seem to be rather discriminatory against republicans, and those who voted for trump.
"That's just the way it is, bro" is not an acceptable answer to the urgent problems
but it is an acceptable answer to why the ellectoral college works the way it does and why we chose a democratic republic rather than a direct democracy
Things like climate change, clean air/water, civil rights, consumer protection, and economic inequality are life and death issues for millions of Americans.
Completely irrelevant to this argument tho.
I find it ironic that u keep stereotyping me, feeding me generalizations and memes while telling me that the people who share my beliefs are racist bigots. Please dude you're nuts. On top of that You dont even know how to sub classify the different kinds of republicans & democrats. You called Trump & Alex Jones Neocons for crying outloud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
In short "Neocons" are basically prowar conservatives while "Neolib" may technically mean something else but when used in 2018 America it tends to mean prowar liberals that collude with the neocons such as Bill, Obama, Hillary, all of which continued Bush Sr's wars with each president expanding on the last . (yes i know HIllary was not a president, but shes already shown us what she would have expanded on Barrack Dronestrike Obama war policies if she won)Trump is literally the first one to actually slow things down
2010 was 8 years ago. 8 years ago is a long time in my book, and I'm 40 years old. 1964 was a really long time ago. Hillary Clinton was only 17 years old, and you and weren't even born yet. Your claim that "Hillary openly supported him before he recanted his past" is a total lie. Robert Byrd has a lifetime NAACP score of 82%. You will have a very difficult time finding any Republican with a score that high.
You want examples of Trump's racism? Seriously? You can't just Google this shit? You don't have any friends or family explaining this shit to you? How about the birther movement? Did anybody ever explain to you that Trump accused President Obama of not being a real American, even though he had no evidence to prove such a claim? Has anyone explained his racist and discriminatory immigration policies to you? Has anyone brought it to your attention that he paid out a multi-million dollar settlement when he was caught discriminating against black tenants? How about the time he called African and South American countries "shithole countries", and then asked why we can't get more people to immigrate from Norway? How about the time he referred to white supremacists and Nazis marching in Charlottesville as "very fine people". These are just a few instances I can think of off the top of my head. I would keep going, if I thought it would do any good.
If there are racists in the police force, that's systemic oppression. It isn't one isolated incident. It is a widespread pattern of behavior. Look at the figures on incarceration and use of force on minorities. Look at how our drug laws, which are racist in origin, are enforced selectively against minorities. Open your eyes.
Neo means new. Con is short for conservative. A long time ago, conservatives actually cared about conserving things. That is no longer the case, so I choose to call all modern prominent Republicans neocons, because that is what they are. They are con artists, and the only thing they are conserving is white supremacy and corporate power.
I'm a veteran. I have seen Democrats negotiate peace, and I have seen Republicans make utterly disastrous foreign policy blunders. When it comes to foreign policy, I'm more of a Dennis Kucinich/Ron Paul type of guy. I will admit, I'm not totally happy with Obama's foreign policy decisions, but they are far preferable to the lunatic cowboy act we get from Republicans. I don't read intelligence briefings from the Pentagon, so I'm not going to pretend like I know what I'm talking about there. (Trump has access, but according to inside sources, he doesn't read them either.) What I do know, is that we see fewer casualties of war worldwide under Democrats. Under Democratic administrations, we see more competent diplomacy, and less wars based on lies.
The casualties are coming in faster than ever. Not only from battlefields overseas, but also from concerts, classrooms, and protests. For the love of God, open your fucking eyes. Your brothers and sisters are dying.