This is the shiny new meme of the right wing, and I was just waiting to see how long it took you to climb on top of it and start humping it as hard as you could. By my count, you're running at least a few hours behind your usual parroting schedule. Must be hard being such a shill, eh? Well, Don;'t worry, only a few more days left until you can take a deep breath. But then you'll have to switch to incessant braying about TheEndOfTheWorld. Like somehow, after all the shitstorms of the last 8 years being Clintons fault, everything is going to be Obamas fault on Jan 20th.
Anyway, if you actually listen to it, its pretty darn clear there is a lot of cut-and-paste going on (with a lot of eerie music, which just guarantees that its not, you know, some sort of political hit job of selective quoting). The transcript does not make that clear- it should.
Also, head start is redistributive change. Welfare and unemployment insurance is redistribution of wealth. Roads and bridges are, NASA is, the military is... Making sure schools in the poorest neighborhoods have something close to the resources of the richest schools- thats redistribution of wealth.
Taxation is redistributive wealth.
Things like ERA, anti-discrimination laws for the workplace, affirmative action etc- these are all things that are economic justice issues- using legislation to address economic injustices.
If you listen to the recording, its clear in his tone that he was not criticizing the warren court as not radical enough, he was criticizing those who claimed it was somehow radical and pointing out that the warren court operated within the bounds of the constitution, as a few comparable courts did not, and were thus radical. Thats essentially a true and reasoned statement.
Words like 'redistributive change', 'redistribution of wealth' and 'economic justice' are not code words for OMFG!1!! SoCIALIsMM!1!!, no matter how hard you try to make the case- they apply to any society with taxation and any level of social safety net
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I have heard the original piece floating around Youtube
The whole thread (31 posts)
- "Shame, cubed"
- Nothing stays the same, TB
- As Larry Craig and Popeye would say,
- Never interrupt the soup line with news that the soup is a week old.
- You guys try to make something of nothing.
- Is it really the end of the world?
- Do you honestly believe he's telling you the truth about his plans?
- A more nuanced analysis
- Ayers.. Check! Wright... Check! Socialism... Check! CPR interview.... Check! Birth Certificate... ???
- I have heard the original piece floating around Youtube
