Joe Biden told voters that Mitt Romney would put black voters back in chains. “They’re going to put y’all back in chains”. That is rewriting history. I could give other examples of prominent Dems, including our president who have sold Republicans as such.
We are now 50 years post the Civil Rights Act and black families are on many parameters in worse shape than they were in the 1960’s. In the 1970s we were hard-pressed to get progressives to admit that fathers were important. Social programs rewarded single mothers and penalized intact families. Now a disproportionate number of black babies are never born, because they are aborted. And the ones that are born have a high probability of growing up in poverty. With substandard schools that are defended by the Dem invested unions. If this is how we love people, please don’t love me.
The Democratic Party has absolutely branded itself is the party of human rights and the party of compassion. About soul-searching, they need to do some of that themselves.
Regarding changes since the 1970s, there been tremendous cultural and social shifts that accounted for a lot of party realignment. The Democratic Party became the party of abortion rights. Now they are the party of identity politics, hyphenated Americans. There’s evidence that this kind of thing does more harm than good. It worsens class and racial problems. Democratic policies continue to focus on our separateness. I think it’s a big part of all the race issues on college campuses. Victim status gives someone status.
Democrats keep asking why these middle-class white people and lower-class white people are “voting against their best interests.” I don’t think they get it at all. If they continue to chalk it up to ignorance and racism, they never will.
@ at white supremacists getting cozy? I couldn’t say. Trump says crazy things. These groups tend to want autonomy and small government. Or maybe they believe Biden and are signing up. Kidding.
edited. Sorry for any errors. I was talking into my phone.
I completely disagree. The KKK actually endorsed Hilary FTR. Both parties have plenty of ignorant racist bigots. The only big difference is one has managed to build a culture where their type of bigotry is the “in” thing. Some of the most racist and bigoted statements and ideas come from the Dems and top level ones at that. The notion that currently the Dems have a better record on negative civil rights is completely and totally false.
It is true that closer does not mean close. But in the present case, it apparently means close enough. And that is the fact the GOP should find alarming, and needs to ponder.
I’m sorry, but to suggest that blacks were actually better off prior to the Civil Rights Act–back in the days of de jure institutional racism; the days of separate facilities; of whites-only hotels, restaurants, universities, etc; of being forced to sit in the back of the bus–is simply beyond the pale. I don’t even know how to respond to that.
Yes, but the point is that a significant component of the cultural/social shift of which you speak was promoted and exploited by the GOP.
That’s not an accurate representation of what transpired. Like the Democratic Party, the GOP pre-1970s was essentially silent on the issue of abortion–the first anti-abortion plank in the GOP platform did not appear until 1976, and was part-and-parcel of the Southern Strategy (specifically, it was a concession to secure the support of Southern evangelicals). So if the Democratic Party ‘became the party of abortion rights,’ it’s only because the GOP became the anti-abortion party. In other words, the GOP shifted–not the Dems.
Acknowledging class and racial problems–giving voice to those who were so disenfranchised for so long–is not the same thing as worsening them.
Well yes–that is the whole point. As of this moment, a man who “says crazy things”–things that make white supremacists feel welcome and emboldened–is the standard-bearer, the leader, of the GOP. And as I alluded above, this fact should be of great concern to all Republicans, and should prompt them to ponder how it is they got to such a point as this.
No. Try google. Until you start siting all your claims I’ll do no such thing for the sole reason that I stated something contrary to your opinion. I will however call you out on your bigotry. You are displaying a huge confirmation bias to your stance. There are 2 options, you are either willfully ignoring news or you are choosing news sources that only support your preconceived notions. Try broadening your outlook and opening up the ole’ mind a little.
Let me lay a little bit of logic on you. The democratic party happens to align very well with white nationalist ideology. First and least most, they believe like many people including the likes of dems like LBJ and many republicans that social programs impoverish blacks. This first and foremost makes dems the social policy racists. Even not accepting the argument that this belief is true, if you are halfway rational you have to admit that this flips the tables entirely on intent, making republicans at least that believe such decidedly non-racist, and pro-black. Second, and vastly more important, there is one party that overwhelmingly supports a policy that removes 10s of millions of black genes from the gene-pool every year while the other predominantly fights for the lives of the lowest class of black children. And you think that there are hugely important white nationalist racists bigots that don’t find that supremely enticing? Please explain how that isn’t a vastly overriding policy that is right up the white racist nationalist alley?
This also ignores all the home grown white and non-white racists that supports and endorse the Democratic platform for their own reasons.
It’s your argument. You can make it or not as you wish. However, until such time as you make it, the claim that the KKK have endorsed HRC stands as a rather far-fetched and dubious assertion rather than a fact.
I have no idea what ‘two options’ refers to.
Whether social programs ‘impoverish blacks’ is an empirical question. Setting that aside, I have never heard of a white nationalist who supported such programs for that (or any other) reason. (White nationalists tend to loathe the idea of paying taxes that go into the pockets of ‘mud people.’)
So at this point, you have claimed that 1) the KKK support HRC, and 2) white nationalists support massive federal social programs for the black underclass. I think most readers will agree that these two claims are counter-intuitive, to put it mildly. Again, I’m going to have to ask you to support your argument if you wish it to be taken seriously (by me at least).
This, I assume, is a reference to the pro-choice stance of the Dem Party. That stance is non-discriminatory; ie, applies to women of all ethnic backgrounds. So it’s hard to see how it can be painted as an anti-black conspiracy, such as you seem to suggest.
I don’t feel a need to explain facts not in evidence. Further, the white nationalists are coming out of the woodwork to support Trump–not Bernie, not HRC. Per you, the KKK and other white supremacists should be flocking to the Dem side, which clearly isn’t the case. So your take on the situation is not explaining the actual facts on hand.
What record? There is no proof of such an endorsement. No credible news outlet has shown evidence of this other than a statement by an alleged high ranking KKK member, which, considering the source, is no hard proof at all.