I am Democrat. Period. Part of the Democratic Party. Loyal voter. Vote in every election.
I am the base.
Tired of those who aren’t the base insulting those who are.
At what point do we ask ourselves are these folks fighting "against the establishment" just interlopers trying to overturn the will of the Black base of the Democratic Party? There's something very weird about jamming your agenda down the throat of folks that don't want it.
— Rugged Amethyst #CaliBred #TexasBred (@groove_sdc) July 20, 2021
And they seem rather impatient. No real hunger for the work or grind. They want it all RIGHT NOW. And if you don't give them what they feel entitled to then the here comes the name calling
Neoliberal
Centrist
Establishment Dem
Corporate Dem
Corrupt
Sh*tlib
And on and on …— Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) July 20, 2021
So at first I was willing to give these folks the benefit of the doubt. They're just young and impressionable. Full of vigor and fire. But no. There is something more insidious going on. They believe their agenda takes precedence over our opinion in our own damn party. It's wild.
— Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) July 20, 2021
In the matchups between Hillary-Bernie, Warren-Kamala, Shontel Brown and Nina Turner the ideological difference is not vast. But the way some progressives talk about Black folks and the candidates we choose is filled with self-righteous condemnation and it's weird.
— Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) July 20, 2021
So all this talk about running "for the people" is a lie. They're running for THEIR people. And those folks are a roundtable of folks with problematic views about Black people. They would much rather fight against us than fight with us.
— Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) July 20, 2021
So what does that mean? In practice? What that means is the displacement of Black people and Black power in the party. That means dismantling Black organizations within the party and replacing them with handpicked surrogates who are tethered to them and not us.
— Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) July 20, 2021
So who is the replace for President Obama, who is the standard bearer for the Democratic Party? Bernie of course. So you see a strategic pattern of invoking his name and inventing ways where he's had influence while downplaying Obama's achievements or reinventing them as failures
— Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) July 20, 2021
Another example is mass incarceration and police accountability. Bernie has more interest in solidarity with the white working class than these topics. Obama passed a bill to decrease racial disparities in sentencing. Guess who they call a failure for not ending police shootings?
— Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) July 20, 2021
They've gone after Rep. Jim Clyburn. They've gone after Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. They've become the boogeyman in the Shontel Brown-Nina Turner race even though people in the CBC are pulling for both. The rhetoric towards them is and has unbelievably harsh. But that's the plan.
— Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) July 20, 2021
So if you replace Black folks in the Democratic Party and you replace the largest Black legislative body in the country (Congressional Black Caucus) what do you have? A vastly different party. And that's really the point.
— Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) July 20, 2021
One more time for those high up in the bleachers.
Bernie is not the enemy.
But, there are two enemies of the Democratic Party and their names are Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.
Either one or maybe both of those ass-clowns could derail the entire Biden agenda and we get nothing. No infrastructure, no reconciliation bill, no voting rights legislation, no police reform, nothing.
And Sinema, self-annointed Queen of the Senate actually thinks it’s up to her. And Joe Manchin is competing with her for who rules the Senate.
Stop hating on Bernie et al and focus on the real problem.
Sinema and Manchin are running down the clock for McConnell who fully believes the GOP wins the House and Senate in 2022. He might be right. In that case, it’s over. Nothing gets done.
I guess we’ll see what happens to this “bipartisan” infrastructure bill. If it fails, I’m afraid Sinema and Manchin will f^ck up the reconciliation bill. Sinema has already said she doesn’t approve of the 3.5 trillion and she fully believes it’s her decision.
So, my advice, give Bernie a rest. He’s fighting an uphill battle to get ANYTHING done in the Senate with the Democratic infighting.
Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) tweeted at 2:09 PM on Wed, Jul 28, 2021:
Tomorrow, Biden is expected to announce that federal employees and contractors will have to show proof of vaccination OR proof of negative tests. This is the SAME policy in place at @FoxNews. Don’t let @TuckerCarlson tell you he’s against this. He participates in it.
(https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1420461440951939072?s=02)
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Thank you thank you thank you. I’m so sick of white Dems who don’t grasp what an existential threat “The Left” poses to the party and the country and how resentment of Black people and the power and influence they wield in the party fuels it. We need a full accounting of the role Sanders, Devine and Weaver played with Manafort in 2016.
Thank you thank you thank you. JustUs Dems and the so called “Left” are actively engaged with the forces “The Right” and the media who want to destroy the one major institution holding the line against fascism. More rank and file Dems need to grasp all of the forces aligned against the party and how hatred of the power and influence Blacks wield fuels that. We also need to understand the the ties between Bernie, Devine, Weaver and Manafort in 2016. I’m so angry at and impatient with white Dems who refuse to see Bernie and his astroturfed spawn like “The Squad” for the existential threat they are.