Look at rmrd.   He used to make sense. Now he's become so consumed with black identity that he's as racist as the white supremacists. But I don't think the white supremacists or the black tribalists represent either whites or blacks. They're just fragments on the fringe.

Arty... you've got it...

One thing one has to do is one has to avoid aggravating the wrong tribalist groups nationally, because one may have to get some ot those over in another district far away. It's not fair, it's the way it is. 

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To advocate stoking tribal differences with all those people right now is just plain stupid. Getting enthused about old tyme Dem memes calling them racists or imrperialists or Wall Street scum right now, I see that as just plain stupid. 

From the article I linked above...

The decline of the traditional leftwing infrastructure – parties, organisations, NGOs and the like – that previously might have given progressives a platform meant that leftwing or liberal celebrities took on an especial cultural significance during the Bush years. For many people on the left – especially as the internet became mainstream – politics became a matter of applauding or sharing an intervention by one or another progressive public figure. To cater to this need, a particular style of humour developed, associated with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and similar figure. Throughout the Bush years, progressives kept up their morale by blogging about the latest sketch in which Stewart cut some Fox News blowhard or another down to size.

Yet such victories were always pyrrhic, since the ever-present snark of smug politics affirmed the right’s new-class theory even as it mocked it.

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