Zeno Potas
Another prominent figure has announced that he is leaving the Democratic party but for a different reason than most - they aren't liberal enough! Shawn King, The controversial racial justice activist and New York Daily News contributor, who supported President Obama in the 2008 election and wrote critically of both Democratic candidates before ultimately endorsing Bernie Sanders, announced in column last Friday that 2016 would be his last election as a Democrat. After that, "I’m moving on," he says, "and hope you do, too."
King is unequivocal.
"It has never been more clear to me that millions and millions
of us do not belong in the Democratic Party," he writes. "Their
values are not our values. Their priorities are not our priorities."
He writes "Right now, the Democratic Party, which I have called
home my entire life, is deeply in love with money," King writes.
"Consequently, its leaders have supported and advanced all kinds
of evil, big and small, in devotion to this love affair."
He is convinced that
the Democratic Party is corrupt, perhaps irredeemably so.
He
cites only a few specific examples:
ON
RACE:
- "I
don't believe the Democratic Party on issues of racial injustice.
What has happened since the abolition of slavery is that you've
[made] a little tinker here, a little tinker there. And if we go
back, we will find [with the] Democratic Party, its roots and
foundations are not always this beautiful thing."
- "There
is no situation or circumstance where I would campaign for Hillary
Clinton. Hillary Clinton and the DNC each wants us to believe that
lobbyists and SuperPACs don’t
expect
anything from them in return for their money. This is the most
basic, foolish, offensive lie they could ever tell. Further: that it
is has been seduced by the root of all evil."
ON
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY:
- ….“the Democratic Party is dishonest. I don't believe the Democratic Party when it comes to issues of racial justice, of prison reform We see police departments and others all throughout this country are still basically a part of what they believe is basically the Democratic Party.”
IN
ADDITION:
- He is very concerned about Hillary Clinton’s refusal to release transcripts of her Goldman Sachs speeches.
- He also spoke out against the distribution of funds raised by Clinton/Democratic National Committee joint fundraising events and the reversal of lobbyist donation rules. (Debbie Wasserman Schultz repealed a rules change that has allowed lobbyists to make huge donations and PACs to make huge donations to the DNC.)
Yes,
Shaun King says he is leaving the
Democratic Party. He says he thinks the Democratic Party can’t be
saved. He is less sure of what comes after. He sees possibilities in
the Green Party, in a Socialist party, in an entirely new Progressive
party.
When one of the Democrats own comes out to speak out against the Progressive wing of the party for being too "in bed" with big Leftist money it can only be the truth. That, Patriots, is a commodity sorely lacking in this country today - THE TRUTH.
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