Hmgeisler t1_iu2pmef wrote
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More of a Ron Paul guy. Got it.
DanielAlman OP t1_iu2r2yx wrote
And here's a reason why I'm a libertarian. I really, really don't understand why most black people voted for this racist:
Joe Biden on Crime and Mass Incarceration
During the ’80s and ’90s, Mr. Biden helped shepherd a string of bills that transformed the criminal justice system — and, experts say, hurt America’s black communities.
June 27, 2019
As Joseph R. Biden Jr. makes his third run for the White House, he is being pressed to answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities.
During the 1980s and 1990s, when Mr. Biden was a senator from Delaware, he and other leaders of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee helped fashion a string of bills that overhauled the country’s crime laws.
Among the most significant were: the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which established mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses; the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which imposed harsher sentences for possession of crack than for possession of powder cocaine; and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which was essentially a catchall tough-on-crime bill.
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‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration
He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the ’80s and ’90s. That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.
June 25, 2019
Now, more than 25 years later, as Mr. Biden makes his third run for the White House in a crowded field of Democrats – many calling for ambitious criminal justice reform — he must answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts and his critics say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities. That he worked with segregationists to write the bills — an issue that recently dominated the political news and seems likely to resurface in Mr. Biden’s first debate on Thursday – has only added to his challenge. So has the fact that black voters are such a crucial Democratic constituency.
uniquelabel t1_iu6khgr wrote
Which racist do you think black people should have voted for?
DanielAlman OP t1_iu86340 wrote
I have never understood why most black people vote for the party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, school segregation, redlining, Japanese internment, Robert Byrd, and Ralph Northam.
uniquelabel t1_iu9bbbd wrote
It’s an interesting question. Democrats were 100% the party of racism in the 1800s, while Republicans were the party of Lincoln and abolition and civil rights. So what changed? If you’re really curious, you can read about the Dixiecrats, and the “southern strategy”. It’s interesting history.
DanielAlman OP t1_iueeuqo wrote
I know about the southern strategy. But the fact remains that after Robert Byrd started his own KKK chapter and recruited 150 of his friends and family members to join, he later got elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat. And if he hadn't died, he would still be in office as a Democrat. Hillary Clinton even referred to him as her good friend and mentor. Byrd never changed his party affiliation to Republican.
Democrat Ralph Northam said it was indeed him in a racist photograph from college, but he wasn't sure if he was the guy in the KKK outfit, or the guy in blackface. And he never changed his affiliation to Republican either.
Joe Biden never changed his affiliation to Republican after creating his racist crime bill.
Democrats are also the party that thinks black people are too stupid to get into college without special racial preferences, despite the fact that there are a lot of very intelligent, very bright black people who did very, very well in high school, and who are perfectly capable of getting into college based 100% on merit.
uniquelabel t1_iufdbiz wrote
I suspect, if you look around, you can also find an example or two of Republicans being racist.
DanielAlman OP t1_iu2qqgl wrote
I actually wrote in Ron Paul for President in 2008 because I thought the official Libertarian Party candidate was not libertarian enough.
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