Kamala Harris was always the corporate tool, got to be DA of SF and then AG of CA because she used to bounce on Willie Brown’s corporate tool back in the day.

You don’t reflect any knowledge of what the world is like outside US borders from your writing.

SO you’re willing to throw billions of global southerners under the bus to keep a few global northerners with a modicum of civil rights protections?

What selfish politics so typical of over entitled Americans. I get my housing and job protections even if the cost of that is measured in hundreds of thousands of corpses.

The same crap came forth in 2007 when ENDA was up. The HRC had “promises” trans folks that they’d be included but declined to do the political work required to get the votes and came up short. The debate was then whether to move forth on lesbian gay and bi job protections as they had the votes. The argument was that trans folks would get thrown under the bus if we moved forward.

That’s a twisted view of solidarity, that we all take a hit so that nobody wins instead of some taking a hit to help some win. In the intervenin 4 years, trans folks have made no overtures to LGB to help rustle up those votes. The legislative window is now closed and appears to be closing for a decade or more. All the while LGB in the flyover continue to lose home and job but the trans folks were not thrown under the bus–we all are getting run over.

I am no Christian, but physician, heal thyself.

Ron Paul’s economic line is in effect Obama’s economic line.

Under your logic, a stubbed toe in the global north is equivalent to the holocaust in the global south.

Trust me, as a gay man who has had to fend off skinheads who came after me with chains and who has traveled extensively, we know nothing of oppression in the US when compared to the underbelly of empire in the global south.

TO even make the claim that domestic racism, sexism or homophobia rises to the same level of what Iraqis, Afghanis or Pakistanis face right now in the sites of US drones or the price that Latin Americans or Africans have had to pay for our comfort and convenience over the past 70 years strains your credibility.

Compared to billions in the global south, domestic oppression against women, people of color or queers is imperceptible, the difference between war crimes and crimes against humanity on one hand, and criminal mischief on the other,

If you’re half italian, then all you get is 5% or 45%.

The Civil Rights division is handling complaints under Holder and Obama?

Usage reflects both reducing by 10% and by 90%:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decimate

Seriously, “moron?”

Just so long as we hold all candidates equally accountable, starting with the war criminal President.

You don’t know Paul enough to make a judgment on whether his is a moron or not. Why not just call him on his policies instead of attacking him personally? When people attack others personally, that means they’ve lost the substantive contest.

When I say decimating, I mean cutting the military budget from approaching $1,000,000,000,000 to approaching a mere $100,000,000,000 per year. Decimating, the word has a fixed definition and semantics.

Barack Obama signed a bill that required Americans to purchase corporate health insurance, granted drug companies immunity to negotiated prices and included the Stupak amendment.

But, boo, Ron Paul has cooties!

Military intervention makes it easier for multinational corporations to profit in he global south than otherwise.

Many in the global south resist this extraction politically only to be trumped militarily or financially. Throwing away those trump cards is progressive.

Tell me, what is progressive about maintaining the trillion dollar military, “national security” apparatus and global financial structures?

the first step is admitting that there is no difference like no difference.

Foreign aid is a pittance in mitigation for the ongoing subjugation of the global south by American military power on behalf of transnational economic power. Latin America has said “ya basta,” and is pulling out of the debacle.

There would be much less need for foreign aid if the 1000 US military bases were not set up to prevent any independent development in the global south so that their inexpensive labor and natural resources could be commanded by the industrial markets of the global north.

Immigration is largely fueled by this economic and military activity. People are pushed out of traditional cultures and pulled here to reclaim the economic bounty that we’ve stolen at gunpoint. People tend to not pull up roots and move unless there is a good reason. Chasing stolen booty is not a good reason. Better to not steal it, to encourage broad based economic sustainability, and diminish the immigration issue organically.

Until the US can put its own house in order, we don’t need to be thinking of how we can leverage our failures to make the rest of the world worse as well.

The only rub to that analysis is that on the really big ticket items, decimating defense, non-interventionism, replacing the Fed, ending the drug war, Paul has support of 2/3, a tea party/occupy convergence.

It does not matter whether a Democrat or Republican wins next year. Absent ongoing mobilized organization that leaves elected officials no choice but to do the bidding of the 99%, we’re going to continue to labor under bankster feudalism, as we’re seeing ripen in Europe.

Our creaky democracy 1.0 is flickering with the Blue Screen of Death.

And seriously, who’s to say that the condition of women, people of color or queers here in the US is more important than the brutal squalor to which 4 billion are condemned in the global south due to the constellation of military bases and interventionism that both parties embrace?

I’m with Ward Churchill on this one.

How awfully presumptuous of you. I am not critiquing the need for justice, rather the notion that paid activist progressive celebrities, one friend calls them progocialites, can speak for disparate communities without their, without our consent.

By any measure, the circumstances of women, people of color and queers has at best remained static nationally. It was the Democrats, after all, that folded like chairs for the Stupak amendment, the greatest legislative rollback in choice in a generation or on DOMA or DADT a few decades ago.

There is a gulf between the paid activists speaking for communities and where those communities are. There is no evidence on the table that democratically organized groups of color have weighed the Ron Paul campaign’s plusses and minuses and come to the conclusion that these newsletters are show stoppers for them.

Indeed, the self correcting aspects of the duopoly require this kind of single issue hysteria to keep the ship of dysfunction righted. A corrupt political system only produces corrupt structures that only get funded when they keep the sham going.

If the Democrats could not make a go of it with 60 Senators and +60 in the house, it just ain’t gonna happen with the Democrats, they will never get dealt a hand that good again in our lifetimes, if they live that long.