Why Democrats are losing the Latino vote. Our economic system allows parasites to thrive.
USC Professor Manuel Pastor has the answer to hold the Latino vote. Sen. Warnock is the conscience of our democracy. The GOP defined Trump.
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Manuel Pastor, USC Professor of Sociology discusses the Latino vote.
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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) reminds us that slavery & voting rights denial were all bipartisan.
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It is hard to believe that Democrats are losing Latino support. Dr. Manuel Pastor, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California threw up the warning flag in 2020. He is back again. With our democracy at risk, we must get his message out beyond academia. The themes in the posts this week are apropos.
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Manuel Pastor, USC Professor of Sociology discusses the Latino vote
Donald Trump did better with Latinos than expected. USC Professor Dr. Manuel Pastor predicted that. Today he explains what happened and what Democrats must do if they are to keep the Latino electorate.
Dr. Manuel Pastor is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He currently directs the Equity Research Institute at USC. Pastor holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is the inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change at USC.
Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental, and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities. His latest book, State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Means for America’s Future, came out in 2018 and was lauded in a New York Times review as “concise, clear and convincing.” 2021 sees the publication of two new books, South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. (co-authored with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo) and Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter (co-authored with Chris Benner).
Pastor’s previous book, Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America’s Metro Areas, co-authored with Chris Benner (UC Press 2015), argues how inequality stunts economic growth and how bringing together equity and growth requires concerted local action. Combining data, case studies, and narratives on multi-sector collaborations in 11 metro regions, the book offers a powerful prescription not just for metros but for our national challenges of slow job growth, rising economic inequality, and sharp political polarization. He also co-edited the book, Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration with John Mollenkopf (Cornell University Press 2016), which offers a comparative study and detailed analyses of immigrant incorporation efforts across seven different U.S. metro regions.
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Report: Elon Musk is a parasite who built his company on government money he wants to deny everyone else.
Fareed Zakaria did a piece on Elon Musk that clarifies that the billionaire is a proud parasite that wants to deny them the opportunities he got.
Time's Person Of The Year is Elon Musk. Are you kidding? The mainstream media has lost any sense of morality and objectivity. The article is a puff piece. The author does not put much weight as did Fareed Zakaria in this post's video clip illustrating that Elon Musk has been a parasite dependent on the government for all of his ventures. And then, one sees the following paragraph in the article.
When the topic of government comes up in TIME’s interview, Musk briefly amuses himself by humming rapper Warren G’s ’90s hip-hop hit “Regulate.” “They’re basically saying they want control of the assets,” he says. “This does not result in, actually, the good of the people. You want those who are managing capital to be good stewards of capital. And I think the government is inherently not a good steward of capital.”
He is but a continuation of Reagan's fraud. Reagan said the government is not the solution but the problem. Our oligarchs, fascists, unfettered capitalists, and corporatists require that we lose faith in government. They expect us to run to them for a failed government.
The sad thing is that anytime the government fails, it is their doing as they purchase politicians with bribes and fool the population with paid misinformation.
The belief that plutocrats who enrich themselves with government dollars, our dollars, labor, and intellect is fool-hearted. Their enlarged profits are our unpaid labor and wealth theft. We must never cede power from we-the-people to the plutocrats of the world.
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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) reminds us that slavery & voting rights denial were all bipartisan.
In one of the best floor speeches in some time, Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock implored Democrats to act on voter rights.
Senator Raphael Warnock went to the Senate floor and gave a message that likely made a difference. After all, the President and Majority leader have now thrown voter rights at the top of the queue.
The Senator reminded Democrats that Republicans had shown no desire to govern. He said it was up to Democrats to govern. But there was a part of his speech that had my skin crawling as it distilled America's reality.
Some of my Democratic colleagues are saying, but what about bipartisanship? Isn't that important? Warnock said. "I say, of course, it is. But here's the thing. We must remember slavery was bipartisan. Jim Crow segregation was bipartisan. The refusal of women's suffrage was bipartisan. The denial of the basic dignity of members of the LGBTQ community has long been bipartisan. The Three-Fifths Compromise was the creation of a putative national unity at the expense of black people's basic humanity."
Warnock then breaks it down with the critical question.
"So when colleagues in this chamber talk to me about bipartisanship which I believe in, I just have to ask at whose expense?" Warnock asked. "Who is being asked to foot the bill for this bipartisanship? And is liberty itself the cost? I submit that that's a price too high and a bridge too far to my Democratic colleagues. I say while it is deeply unfortunate, it is more than apparent that it has been left to us to handle alone the task of safeguarding our democracy. The judgment of history is upon us."
The country is listening, urging, and waiting.
YEP! GOP Operative: Trump revealed Republican Party as comfortable being an autocratic movement.
Stuart Stevens makes it clear that the lying autocratic nature of the Republican Party has little to do with Trump.
The Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens could not be clearer as he makes a very important point. Congressman Jim Clyburn in an earlier clip pointed out that the Republican Party, the party of his parents was now a cult. He said that the party turned itself over to Trump. Clyburn hopes that sensible people will reformulate the party.
Stevens has a take that is more apropos.
"I have one disagreement with the Congressman there," Stuart Stevens said. "I don't think that Donald Trump changed the party. I think Donald Trump revealed the party. These people are what they want to be. The Republican Party is very comfortable being an autocratic movement now. And that's hard for a lot of us who worked in the party to come to grips with. But I don't know any other conclusion to come to in any kind of honest intellectual sense. They are about the business of changing what we've always known as American Democracy. There was a plot to end the peaceful transition of power and Mitch McConnell surely knew about this PowerPoint. He did nothing. "
The PowerPoint that Stevens spoke about is the draft of the plan Trump and his minions put together for the January 6th coup. As more information is revealed, it is clear we were in fact on the brink of an overthrow. It is imperative that all of these people go to prison for treason. They were all terrorists and fascists.
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