The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(02-14-2021, 04:05 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(02-13-2021, 10:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Even if we get past our racial divide, to the extent that racism/xenophobia no longer dominate a major political party, as it now dominates the Republicans under Trump, we still will face the neo-liberal divide. The earlier Republican extremism of Reagan will still need to be overcome before we can get back to progress after 40 years of regression and decline. We have sunk so far now, that more than one ideology or prejudice needs to be overcome before sanity is restored to the USA.

No doubt, however, that getting past the first racist hurdle, however, will help us get past the second neo-liberal one, since there is some overlap between them.

Racism is now and always has been directly tied to the Democratic party and that will become more and more clear as time goes on. You have no other alternative than to go along and feed racism because those who use racism and rely on racism and exploit racism  represent a considerable amount of money and power within the Democratic party these days.

What do you mean by racism? Being "uppity"? Not knowing and accepting one's allotted place in the grand scheme of things as is the natural hierarchy of paleness? Opposing "white power"?

Considering that the Democratic Party has far more diversity among its elected officials, racism would rip the Democratic Party into shreds if it were commonplace. Where else in the world would Jews and Muslims be in the same Party on the whole? The Democratic Party has the majority of America's model minorities, and those model minorities have not united in acquiescence in exploitation of the less-well-off in their groups.

I consider it extremely disgusting that "conservative" white elites, largely within the Republican Party act in seeming delight in exploiting less-well-off whites economically and then fooling them into believing that the exploitation is benefice because white privilege is a reality. White privilege isn't worth much anymore, and it certainly isn't worth poverty, inadequate education, or being in thrall to opiates or meth. Those "conservative" white elites, so far as I can tell, have plenty of derisive names for poor whites. I'm not going to say them here because they are as offensive as ethnic and religious slurs.

Not so long ago, poor whites distrusted the economic elites enough to vote differently from them. As late as 1996 voters in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, and West Virginia gave pluralities to Bill Clinton, who somehow connected to them enough to win those states' electoral votes. Those states have since spiraled away from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and seem less likely to go D in the next few election cycles than Texas, which has not voted for a Democratic nominee for President since 1976. Texas is steadily becoming more like a microcosm of America -- and it is demographically a far better state than those states that haven't voted for a Democratic nominee for President since they last voted for Bill Clinton in 1996.

You tell me: what have the lily-white elites of the Republican Party done for poor whites in the Mountain and Deep South? I suspect that those elites even hold country music in contempt. (So do I, but

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