[AGL] I want to return to the fold

[Frances Morey]

Hawr!


On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 12:03 PM Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Grief, Acceptance
>
> Frances I fear you're stuck in the anger phase
>
>
> On 3/26/2019 11:37 AM, Frances Morey wrote:
>
> OMG! The fabric of "the fold" has been torn asunder. And you gave it a
> yank on election day, Michael. Hillary hatred was instituted by the Koch's
> over 30 years ago when Hillary was still a young woman filled with
> optimism. These forces spent millions, possibly billions creating Hillary
> calumny and by god it worked!
> People hate Hillary who don't know her. Whether or not she divorced Bill
> over his indisgressions didn't matter she was the cuckhold who became
> despised. It was a knee jerk reaction, yes, that's what defeated her. If
> you consider a three million vote lead in the Popular Vote a loss, that is.
> Best,
> Frances
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 7:23 AM Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> As a life-long Democrat registered voter, it was not pleasant to vote for
>> Trump in 2016. (I voted the Green candidate in the Cruz-O'Rourke race).
>> Thinking about the possible Dem. candidates, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes
>> strikes me as the most interesting and intelligent. I went to her official
>> website but she is staying *stumm* about her specific proposals which
>> shows great discretion. OTOH, in the current fight over admissions to
>> Stuyvesant High School the top STEM public high school in NYC and possibly
>> nationally, she decries the incoming class of 750 which has 9 black
>> admissions as "The face of injustice." The facts are that students at
>> Stuyvesant are ~77% Asian, and ~18% white. Whites and Asians each make up
>> around 15% of the population of NYC. 70% of the population are POC. A great
>> number of the Asian students at Stuyvesant are eligible for free or
>> discounted lunch. Almost all of them have spent years at modestly priced
>> private cram schools to prepare for the test.
>>
>
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