70. "It's a baby with the bathwater scenario" In response to In response to 64
Any ground roots movement is going to have your loons attaching themselves to it; protestors because in their circle its fashionable, people trying to consolidate power for themselves, people who just want to hurt other people.
While we can critique the left for not policing themselves when members trip out, like I said above ill take it with a new energized left in general. In this political environment its unfortunate but I firmly believe that once they take the rational 'our bad' stance on bad actors all that would happen is the right would seize it and use it to discredit the rest of the movement.
It's how they throw the nutty 'New Black Panther' on Foxnews whenever there's a heartless police murder.
It's how they drag some good ol boy and push him in the camera talking about taxes are killing him whenever there's any real movement for corporate tax reform.