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Interesting article from 2016, on Cornell West, the DNC, Sanders, etc.

West:https://jacobinmag.com/2016/11/everybody-hates-cornel-west

Everybody Hates Cornel West

“…When Clinton’s black surrogates shamelessly accused Sanders of racial aloofness, West fought back using the same rhetoric of a “black public intellectual” that had helped build his career. But now, he was attempting to forge that same language into a weapon of social-democratic demystification, wielding it against the Clintonite fog of cultural studies jargon, meritocratic appeals, and subtle free-market apologetics.

It was always doomed. To no one’s surprise, West’s exhaustive intervention failed. No matter how much he vied with his former comrades for the “black public consciousness,” Clinton swept the South by even larger margins than anyone had expected. The same brokerage politics of racial authenticity that had, decades ago, delivered black votes to the Clinton machine weren’t about to win them away for a seventy-four-year-old senator few had heard of. The Wests of the world can deliver only righteousness and fiery passions. Congressmen Jim Clyburn and John Lewis can deliver jobs, networks, and targeted legislation.

As much as West tries to summon what he calls “the black prophetic tradition” in order to make it work for the democratic-socialist agenda he sincerely believes in, the battle over that discourse has long since been lost. The Democratic Party has only grown more skilled at “interpreting the drums,” even as it continues to abandon or rewrite historical commitments to trade unions and social insurance programs — commitments that disproportionately benefited black Americans.

We live in an era in which Clinton — who proudly supported mass incarceration and the obliteration of welfare — declares that a social-democratic program of financial reform and single-payer health insurance “won’t end racism.” A recent WikiLeaks publication of internal Clinton campaign emails reveals another line they were testing out against Sanders: “Wall Street is not gunning down young African Americans or denying immigrants a path to citizenship.”

It’s a sentiment that would’ve bewildered civil rights veterans like A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr, John P. Davis, Bayard Rustin, and Lester Granger, all of whom were committed to social-democratic politics as a crucial means of putting racism on a path towards ultimate extinction. The tragedy of West isn’t that he’s “full of bitterness,” as his liberal detractors claim. It’s that the politics of West’s “black prophetic tradition,” try as he might to wield them for socialist ends, will today find their strongest, clearest articulation in the same old quest of “interpreting the drums” for a mostly white ruling class….”

In case u are wondering what Fox is saying these days:

Re: anti-#BDS laws, from atty on case:

"At the moment these laws seem so facially unconstitutionally, it seems extraordinary that this case can even be a matter of debate. And yet it is." Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fundhttps://t.co/KtSdMUrwTS

— Maggi Carter (@maggicarter) November 17, 2020

As mentioned, I’m not on twitter. But was wondering if this is trending at all. Have seen articles about it in the WaPo and other newspapers, but they’re usually behind a firewall, so I won’t use their links here. This is worth putting in the twitter thread, if you guys have anything on it:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/georgia-secretary-of-state-brad-raffensperger-lindsey-graham-signature-mismatch-ballots.html

Republican secretary of state in Georgia says Graham and other Republicans are pressuring him to throw out legal votes, and he and his wife have gotten death threats because Trump lost the state.

Billy_T wrote:

As mentioned, I’m not on twitter. But was wondering if this is trending at all. Have seen articles about it in the WaPo and other newspapers, but they’re usually behind a firewall, so I won’t use their links here. This is worth putting in the twitter thread, if you guys have anything on it:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/georgia-secretary-of-state-brad-raffensperger-lindsey-graham-signature-mismatch-ballots.html

Republican secretary of state in Georgia says Graham and other Republicans are pressuring him to throw out legal votes, and he and his wife have gotten death threats because Trump lost the state.

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Attention: Sources tell us that the AFL-CIO is not supporting Bernie Sanders for Secretary of Labor. They have another candidate in mind. Bernie was on picket lines before many of these labor rights were born. Another cold shoulder to Bernie from establishment Democrats. -R

— Ralph Nader (@RalphNader) November 17, 2020

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— WookieeFanboi (@WookieFanboi) November 18, 2020

"The word 'fascism' has appeared frequently in denunciations of Donald Trump; many have accused him of a führer-like contempt for the American system. But it is time to ask whether the system itself is not thereby too conveniently excused."https://t.co/7SarHJ29nj

— Harper's Magazine (@Harpers) November 19, 2020

When are these people going to learn that they are better off not trying to call out AOC?

She is the Michael Jordan of political twitter.

Welcome to the resistance, Snapple. pic.twitter.com/TXwOuqoWvI

— Maris Kreizman (@mariskreizman) November 19, 2020

Yall have probly seen this:

Trump’s “Elite Strike Force” legal team is being laughed out of court… https://t.co/nID7vrJS2S

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 21, 2020

BREAKING: Trump's legal team referenced THE WRONG STATE in their suit. They confused Michigan and Minnesota, but the places they alleged cast more votes than residents are all in the part of Minnesota that voted red. Trump's lawyers just accidentally accused him of cheating.

— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) November 20, 2020

Zooey wrote:

Yes! Lake Superior is beautiful! Glad to have more of it for ourselves.

This is the "OJ in the Bronco" stage of @realDonaldTrump's presidency.

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) November 21, 2020