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[Eric the Green]

(05-12-2020, 01:33 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(05-11-2020, 02:41 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: From my perspective, the time America was great was also the tax and spend liberal time, the time the Democrats pushed benefits and labor unions to put more in the hands of the workers, less in the hands of the elites.   Now, the rest of the world’s factories are not going to get bombed out again.  The jobs sent abroad in the conservative era (with the aid of both parties) are not going to come back.  But productivity has gone steadily up.  The difference is the Democratic favoring of the people, the Republican favoring of the racists and elites.
 

Do you know that people who use racism are racists? I bet if I really pressed you on the topic of racism, the forum would learn how racist you and others  are at the core. I mean, why is it that Democrat's are so into gaining support from  minorities these days?

"Minorities" (soon to be a misnomer and already a misnomer in CA) are a key faction of the Democratic Party, because that Party and not the other one more often serves their interests. The Republicans serve the interests of the oligarchs, ONLY. That means that theoretically the Democrats only need to show that they serve the interests of all the people, including people of all ethnicities, not just the oligarchs, in order to win. 

Unfortunately, folks like you are more concerned about keeping the country white and keeping out immigrants, especially if they are people of color, and/or about imposing Christianity on us, or supporting war, and above all supporting the notion that giving tax money for welfare creates dependency (and those "lazy people" are usually people of color, so that ideology (trickle down economics, neo-liberalism, free-market ideology) is also racist, although not explicitly so until Trump), that they ignore the fact that all the Republicans care about is keeping the wealth for their clientele. You guys are just being fooled because the Republicans are able to appeal to your prejudices and your false pride in self-reliance.

What I think Bob may be referring to, is the fact that in some sections of the country, people really ARE racists, even if not all Republicans everywhere are. The people of Mississippi, for example, vote according to their race; that is proven by the stats and exit polls. Left-over racism exists there, as it has for hundreds of years. Blacks for example in many places are profiled, arrested and/or shot in higher numbers, and that is because the people who oppress them in those ways are racist. Republicans get their votes, because their policies continue to keep the people of color in their place; going back to Nixon's southern strategy which resulted in the change of political party registration of racists from Democrat (their party after the civil war) to Republican.