Bloomberg’s billions and the politics of oligarchy
[Anticipating the crisis, Bloomberg had already met with a group of prominent black pastors who had been critical of “stop-and-frisk” but were willing to administer absolution if the billionaire candidate was sufficiently apologetic—and generous. As Calvin Butts, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, put it, with revealing frankness, “He used his money, which is one of the reasons I continue to support him, to express his sincerity.”]
Can I get a, Black Agenda Report, who correctly accessed this behavior last week.
[A longtime Democrat who adopted the Republican label in 2001 to run for mayor, then ran for reelection as a Republican in 2005 and as an “independent” in 2009, Bloomberg supported Republican presidential candidates George W. Bush in 2004 and John McCain in 2008. He returned to the Democratic Party as an endorser only in 2016, when he backed Hillary Clinton. He later changed his registration to Democratic.]
In other words. Go where ever the money is. Go where I can protect mine the most at the moment. Go where I can buy into more power and self preservation.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I see Bloomberg as a contemporary of Trump with a different agenda. As a nation we are now being asked if we want Trump Fascism and white power backed by the rich, or "business as usual" backed by the rich. I feel this is because the DNC will not give up and does not want anyone progressive in any way. The Clinton's largely control the DNC and there is plenty of proof that business as usual failed in the last election. They never learn because I hear rumors of Hillary wanting to run with Bloomberg. My advice is "please, don't."
DenoPenno
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Extremely foolish to regard him as anything other than an extreme right wing Democrat, which is the same as a republican.
But the concept of buying black church forgiveness smacks of catholic church selling forgiveness.
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