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[Eric the Green]

(05-12-2020, 10:41 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(05-12-2020, 03:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: "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.

I don't care if millions of minorities fall in line with what you and other racists are teaching and become more and more racist. I guess the whites will just have to adjust and become more and more racist themselves as a result. I'd feel bad about the more advanced minorities who caught in the middle but if there aren't enough them to effectively counter their own they'll be stuck in the middle. I'd hate to go back to the age of the Whites vs Indians ( the last race war). But, maybe that's what's needed to end racism here.

 Bob doesn't seem to understand that his blatant stupidity and your blatant stupidity and the blatant stupidity others here are getting in the way of progress and placing it at risk. Here's a news flash, every person on the other side values their wealth, their religion, their Constitution and their Constitutional rights, the American rule of law, United States of America and it's flag. I'm just telling you and others here so that you understand who you are really at war with today and who your followers will be at war with tomorrow and so you all understand what you will be losing eventually.

We on the left teach that people of color have been enslaved and oppressed up until recently, and still are in many cases. We support anti-poverty programs and welfare because they protect us all and promote economic growth, as we have explained. So because Democrats advocate some of these ideas, some of the time, people of color know which party to support, and like the other party, Democrats rally and encourage their supporters to vote. You claim this is getting political power by catering to POC and Democrats are dependent on them for this. I agree with JFK instead who said when the rights of one are violated, the rights of all are threatened. That's why POC support Democrats, because they protect their civil rights and anti-poverty programs, which help everyone. You vote Republican because the rights you care about are property and gun rights. You don't support the rule of law or democracy, because you support a president and party that violates and destroys these things. For you guys, the flag matters but what it stands for does not.