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Whether or not people are literally blaming minorities, Democrats have acted as if they are owed the votes of minorities and the working class which meant they felt no incentive to actually try and appeal to them or do more than token gestures.
I’m not surprised they lost the minority vote. They’ve been asking for it for a while.
Funny that this is just more divisive rhetoric enabling right-wing talking points . It’s almost like it’s not a matter of minorities, but of socioeconomic class and education disparities leading to people across the board voting against their own interests because they don’t know how to parse truth from bullshit.
The sooner black WORKERS, latino WORKERS, white WORKERS all rally under the same banner that points the finger at the rich who controls the vast majority of resources in not just this country but globally, we’ll just keep fighting over increasingly fewer breadcrumbs.
The racism was used to sell to white “middle classes” the dream of becoming rich and lording it over the “not white” who were separated, segregated. In this context, white is a class, not a race, and it is most definitely not something that can just be dispelled by informing people that it’s all made up by capitalists to divide the people. You can think of this class as “honorary petite bourgeois” for those workers.
Even if it’s true what you say, you don’t get to demand that people who’ve experienced racist attacks and discrimination suddenly forget about it and reclassify that experience as just a misunderstanding.
Some reading for you:
Toward a Political Philosophy of Race by Falguni A. Sheth | Goodreads
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present - Zinn Education Project
“Exterminate All the Brutes”: One Man’s Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide by Sven Lindqvist | Goodreads - this one is also an HBO documentary
Oh look, disingenuous twisting of the discourse. Big fucking surprise.
Turnout was a much bigger problem than where the votes went. The Democrats lost not against the Republicans so much as against their voter base. Turnout tends to be the biggest predictor for who wins US elections as the Republicans tend to have more dedicated/consistent voters
