The Coronavirus

[Eric the Green]

(05-29-2020, 01:10 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(05-29-2020, 10:37 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(05-29-2020, 10:12 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(05-29-2020, 08:01 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I do care if you red folk keep up your racist murders.

They're your racist murders, not ours.  These things seem only to happen in Democrat controlled cities.

Can you guess why they are Democrat controlled?

I don't have to guess.  I know why they are Democrat controlled.  Democrats are racist, and can come up with a story that "protects" white Democrats from blacks, while allowing said whites to feel good about it.

Despite their spoken good intentions, the white Democrats who rule cities cannot seem to get a handle on the racism and brutality that is built into police departments. I don't see why reform can't occur; can you? No wonder some blacks feel they have to be violent. Nothing has been done after decades and decades of police murders and unjust violence.

Cities are Democratic for the obvious reason that Democratic policies, however inadequate, serve the people of cities better. Actually spending some money and making plans to improve life in the city seems worth supporting by urban folks, while intentionally perpetuating poverty and poor services in order to save tax money for fat cats does not. But at least in some blue states, some Republican governors and maybe even a mayor or two can be elected if they don't follow the usual red-state Republican playbook.

Voters in urban areas are urbane, not provincial and parochial. They are more educated and informed, and see the issues as they exist, not as their preachers and bosses tell them to see it. They are also more ethnically and religiously diverse, which Democrats recognize and try to serve, while Republicans depend only on white guys and appeal to their prejudices and fears of black violence for their support. The more Republicans depend on this approach, the fewer voters they get in urban and many suburban areas.