[AGL] I want to return to the fold

Michael Eisenstadt mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 13:02:17 EDT 2019


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 <mailto: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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