Bill Clinton: BLM is defending murderers and drug dealers

[Virginiá]

Great.  You embrace the supporters of a racist serial sexual assaulter who abused his position of authority to seduce a subordinate half his age into sleeping with him.  Good to see you show your true colors.

To be quite fair, most of the Bernie supporters here are going to vote for the enabler of a serial sexual assaulter who abused his position of authority to seduce a subordinate half his age into sleeping with him

Just stop.

[Virginiá]

If I was confusing, I was pointing fun at fact that most of these Hillary-hating Bernie supporters are still going to end up voting for her in the general.

Ah, fair enough. I don't even know when people are being serious or not on here anymore . I do know that the original statement was a ridiculous grade-A chunk of hyperbole, though.

On your point, yes, most will come around. People love to say things like that, you know, for their pride or something. But when push comes to shove, Democratic-leaning voters will fall in line when, at the very least, they start to think of where a Republican president will take the country. I'm sure some will stay home, but that happens every election. Some slices of voters are always dissatisfied and end up staying home, so it's kind of already factored into the race.

[Virginiá]

Well, Clinton was right about you BLM supporters then; you care more about the lives of criminals than law-abiding citizens.  I'm not a big Bill Clinton fan, but I'm definitely warming up to him based on the people he's setting off.

Come on fayette. The whole issue surrounding dislike/distrust of police is far too complex to break down like that. You can support police officers in general and still be very vocally pro-reform, acknowledging that our criminal justice system is terribly unfair and morally bankrupt from the top-down.

I'm not exactly supporting BLM here, but I have sympathy for the African American community and what they have been subjected to for generations. You have to try and put yourself in their shoes to understand this.

[Virginiá]

I'm not saying that you can't be pro-reform and still support police.  I'm talking about the people who protest as part of BLM against Bill Clinton, when his actions with respect to the crime bill helped make black communities safer.  Evergreen calling Bill Clinton "garbage" (which I actually kind of do, but from a very different perspective) just because he told the truth about the BLM agitators at the rally was pretty telling, IMO.

Fair enough, but I would still argue that locking up as many people as we have was not entirely necessary. We went way too far.

The sad truth is that this country has to accept that drugs will always be a problem as long as there is a desire for them. Criminalizing the issue only compounds the problem and ends up destroying lives/communities, with little to no reduction in use.

Ideally, the crackdown on this stuff should have been only temporary (a handful of years), while they worked out a more comprehensive solution that doesn't involve the criminal justice system.