I VOTE YES ON CALEXIT!

[Eric the Green]

(02-09-2017, 05:39 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

Quote:Again, I read nothing there except that you consider "Republicans in general" to be a strawman.

Oh, no, I was merely pointing out that droning on about "my" preachers, and Rush Limbaugh and "Shawn" and all the rest was talking "at" me, not to me.

Reading, apparently not one of your strong suits.

It's not necessarily about YOU. It's about Republicans and their side which, however, you supported.

Quote:

Quote:"My backyard;" you take that image literally, but expect me to take an ethnic stereotype as mere sarcasm. Think again.

I think always. 

I still think you should provide those people futons, or tents at the very least.  Think of how hard they've been working.

And somebody who refers to people from Asia as "Orientals" and derides Mexican's "junky" music and denies that their culture will be any more prominent in the US in the future should probably avoid looking at changing demographics and assume that those people all are going to march in lockstep with your values simply because they happen to be voting "blue" now.

I provide them with futons in the form of ambient music, if they choose to listen.

I don't know how hispanics will vote in the future, or whether they will buy into Reaganomics in the future or not. But I think:

1) Reaganomics can't continue to rule the roost forever. After 40 years of its failure, Reagan and his successors will probably not be able to cast their spell on hispanics as they have on poor white people from middle America, and probably its appeal will decline even in white middle America. You can't fool all of the people, all of the time, as Republicans (and maybe you?) hope to do. Reaganomics aka free market economics, aka libertarian economics, aka neo-liberalism etc. etc. whatever name you prefer, has failed, and will always fail, no matter how Republicans cleverly market it with their Orwellian double speak about "liberty" and "freedom." It's going to fail again under Trump, and hispanics are more likely than whites to realize it, because they are not so kindly disposed to it to begin with, given their general socio-economic status in the USA.

2) Right now, we're talking about a group that is under assault and insult by Trump. Drump's going to be around for a while; no-one knows how long. Hispanics were already down on Republicans; thanks in part to our own CA Gov. Wilson and his Prop.187. I think this orange monstrosity is going to keep them down on Republicans for the duration of the 4T. And as I allude to above, libertarian economics may not be too persuasive in a 1T either, but we'll see.