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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (461267)	12/16/2020 1:12:12 PM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 541579

Teach, your children well or The scouting tradition Society is clearly complicit in the attitudes that some young people develop (ie. Greta) From the wikipedia entry, Angela would have been fifteen at the time... <<She attributes much of her political involvement to her involvement with the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. She also participated in the Girl Scouts 1959 national roundup in Colorado. As a Girl Scout, she marched and picketed to protest racial segregation in Birmingham.[14]>> And the areas of activism in her life show a concern for all those who have been marginalized. Her career is quite colourful, a true citizen of the world. She is not Martin Luther King but her voice is just as important, the class wars have already started. As the illionaires get iller those not ill will become much more numerous. So I guess for most people the choice is which side they are on in the event of a class war. The middle class is a "swing state" from an economic standpoint. My family got here by working long ago. A lot more arrived in the state in the last nine months and they mostly arrived unwillingly. So which side people feel they are on is certainly going to matter in a conflict. I would imagine MacKenzie Scott thinks well of Angela Davis. Philanthropy and social justice make great companions. Angela Davis Interview on Frontline

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (461267)	12/16/2020 1:28:39 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541579

I think you have a misunderstanding about the left. I think what you see on the left that worries you like Angela Davis, or The Squad, are facets of the left, but not THE main left, but minority facets. The left is about liberalism (embracing intelligent change) and humanity and the perception of attendant problems and solutions thereof. That is what binds liberal whites with conservative minorities. Both groups see the same problems and the same solutions, but from different perspectives. . The white liberals, like me, see the problems of minorities and inhumanity, and want to do something to make things better. Minorities have been the victims of the same inhumanity, and so they know the problems, so we liberals and conservative minorities are bound together by a common cause. And the minorities, like the congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have never been closer to we liberals as we jointly are redefining the party to the left, and the women and kids are joining as well, because they are smart. Specifically what binds us, is a common opinion on the social needs and solutions like a $15 minimum wage, universal health care and free college and a stronger social safety net. The far left which seems to worry you is noisy, but has never ruled the party. There is a good reason why most scientists call themselves liberals.