AuH20
08-13-2014, 09:05 AM
This is the type of progress I like to hear!!
http://freebeacon.com/politics/major-democratic-donor-supports-southern-secession/
In an email thread on Gamechanger Salon—a closed Google group of progressive organizers, reporters, and campaign apparatchiks—Guy Saperstein, a major Democratic donor and part owner of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, said he would support the South seceding.
“For more than 100 years, the South has been dumbing down national politics, tilting the country in a conservative direction, supporting militarism, all while demanding huge financial subsidies from blue states,” Guy Saperstein wrote in the emails. “It would be 100% fine with me if the South was a separate nation, pursuing its own priorities and destiny.”
In the email thread from last October, Gamechanger Salon participants were discussing a Michael Lind story at Salon entitled “The South is Holding America Hostage.”
“I thought this was an impressive (if tough) piece of big-picture political strategy and prescription,” member Jon Stahl wrote. “Would be interested to hear others’ opinions of whether he is on target or way off … and if so what that might imply.”
In follow-up comments to Media Trackers, Saperstein wrote, “Secession would be a gradual process, giving any blacks who felt threatened time to relocate.”
Civil rights victories “would not be lost for any blacks willing to relocate and the ones who relocated would do much better in their new environments,” Saperstein continued.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/major-democratic-donor-supports-southern-secession/
In an email thread on Gamechanger Salon—a closed Google group of progressive organizers, reporters, and campaign apparatchiks—Guy Saperstein, a major Democratic donor and part owner of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, said he would support the South seceding.
“For more than 100 years, the South has been dumbing down national politics, tilting the country in a conservative direction, supporting militarism, all while demanding huge financial subsidies from blue states,” Guy Saperstein wrote in the emails. “It would be 100% fine with me if the South was a separate nation, pursuing its own priorities and destiny.”
In the email thread from last October, Gamechanger Salon participants were discussing a Michael Lind story at Salon entitled “The South is Holding America Hostage.”
“I thought this was an impressive (if tough) piece of big-picture political strategy and prescription,” member Jon Stahl wrote. “Would be interested to hear others’ opinions of whether he is on target or way off … and if so what that might imply.”
In follow-up comments to Media Trackers, Saperstein wrote, “Secession would be a gradual process, giving any blacks who felt threatened time to relocate.”
Civil rights victories “would not be lost for any blacks willing to relocate and the ones who relocated would do much better in their new environments,” Saperstein continued.