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Because when a party is made up of special interest groups,those in power will decide which group will be essentially abandoned to concentrate on the more important group.
In the Repub camp,gun owners,abortion opponents are given some lip service but basically ignored,the reason being that who else will they vote for?
Same applies to the Dems, they know certain groups have little choice(or think there is little choice) and so while giving lip service to those groups,ignore them in reality.
Nonsense. I can just as easily vote for a Republican as i can a Democrat. If black folks switched party loyalties before, they can do it again just as easily.
Nonsense. I can just as easily vote for a Republican as i can a Democrat. If black folks switched party loyalties before, they can do it again just as easily.
Not if it is seen the other party isn't offering anything(nevermind the fact their current party isn't either...)
But when you have a two party system you don't have much choice,especially when BOTH parties don't actually care for anything more than your vote on election day.
Not if it is seen the other party isn't offering anything(nevermind the fact their current party isn't either...)
But when you have a two party system you don't have much choice,especially when BOTH parties don't actually care for anything more than your vote on election day.
Fine..so now you're admitting that the Republican Party doesn't offer anything more than the Democrats do. So why bother applying "critical thinking."
In your last post, you said "special interest groups" make up the Democratic Party...in a roundabout way at least. Black people aren't a special interest group no more than white people are. We tend to vote the same way...yes. But it's not as if we hold meetings to determine who we're all gonna vote for. It's not that clandestine, despite what you might think.
If a majority of black folks vote for Dems...there must be a good reason. Speaking for myself, i have a good reason. But if that reason ceases to exist, i can opt for the other party, or just not vote. My options are no more limited than anyone elses. Again, black folkse en masse changed parties before, and we can do it again very easily.
Fine..so now you're admitting that the Republican Party doesn't offer anything more than the Democrats do. So why bother applying "critical thinking."
Neither party does,both offer lip service and the bare minimum needed to keep their followers if not happy at least not looking elsewhere...
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In your last post, you said "special interest groups" make up the Democratic Party...in a roundabout way at least. Black people aren't a special interest group no more than white people are. We tend to vote the same way...yes. But it's not as if we hold meetings to determine who we're all gonna vote for. It's not that clandestine, despite what you might think.
If black people weren't a special interest group,then why would they vote the same way,as you stated?
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If a majority of black folks vote for Dems...there must be a good reason. Speaking for myself, i have a good reason. But if that reason ceases to exist, i can opt for the other party, or just not vote. My options are no more limited than anyone elses.
What is your good reason?
Your options are incredibly limited actually,as most people CANNOT bring themselves to vote for a party that does not have a chance of winning.
Hence why the two party system is so strong in this nation.
Democrats, while giving the appearance of being a minority's best friend, are really their worst enemy. They constantly send a message of "you can't make it on your own, let the government help you," from cradle to the grave. They talk a big game of "empowering" people but all they really do is create a culture of dependency. Now that liberals have created this dependency they can constantly promise the world to minorities, not deliver on any of it, and still count on their votes year after year.
Apparently, you forgot about the page in the history book where a crap-ton of racist Democrats left the Democratic party because it stopped being in favour of Jim Crow. also the page in the history book where Republican president Nixon decided that it was good for the future of his party to assimilate these voters by all means necessary.
And that was the end of "Yellow Dog Democrats". People who registered and voted Democrat for generations because Abraham Lincoln was a member of the Republican Party.
Look at the difference between the Republican party of 2010, and the Republican party of Regan in 1988. Notice any difference?
And that was only 22 years.
Now imagine the difference between the Democrat party that opposed the 13th amendment of 1865 and the democrat party of 2010.
You have to be kidding me? You cannot judge any political party based on it's stances from 145 years ago. Or from 50 years ago. Or really from 8 years ago.
What, can I hold the current Catholic church responsible for the crusades?
If you don't want to be a Democrat, don't be. But don't pretend that a BlueRay DVD is the same as a Betamax tape.
Maybe it was Dem guilt that made them do a complete 360.
Now they've gone to the other extreme and can't give enough welfare benefits to them.
... you do realize that there are more white people on welfare then black people?
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