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Then our options become to either stop being pro life compromising our values in the rather vain hope of getting the female and minority vote.
Why do minorities and women in the US generally vote left wing?
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GOP compromised its values when let weirdo Evangelists dictate them. As much as I admire Reagan his presidency ushered in the worst kinds of people to lead the party. Abortion is a lost battle and REEEEing about it will take the party nowhere.
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Reagan was part of the reason the GOP is where it is today, it went from focusing on social issues and religion to "tax cuts and wasting billions on useless military projects".
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Being pro life isn't hurting getting the minority vote--minorities are socially conservative, as a whole, and I would venture a guess that they're more pro-life as a percentage than white people. You need to stop being racist to get the minority vote (or at least, stop being massively out of touch). I honestly don't even buy that pro-life is a huge issue because a majority of women think abortion is immoral. Republicans are doing great right now--why should you change anything? Women who are pro-choice live places where Republicans are already not getting elected to stuff. It's going to come down to economics if it comes down to anything.
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I think this is the primary reason, as women don’t want to vote for a party that doesn’t understand their needs and lives.
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It is amusing though. "Republicans need to stop using racist stereotypes", proceeds to vote for party that reinforces racist stereotypes. There comes a point you have to realize stereotypes exist for a reason and you have to fight against them. The Dems preaching for illegal immigration and more welfare programs (on a national level) are not helping with this.
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Democrats are just as racist as Republicans. The problem is Republicans have a really bad habit of saying dipshit out of touch things about women and minorities. Democrats say stupid things too but you're probably not gonna hear one say something like how the female body shuts down pregnancy in cases of rape.
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The dems aren't saying dumb out of touch things everyday in media? Isn't that where most of our political content on this site is coming from?
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The Republicans became a party of big business after the 1870s. They abandoned reconstruction to win the presidency in an agreement that involved giving the country Rutherford B. Hayes as its leader.
Both parties had massive progressive factions, the two most famous leaders of those factions both being Roosevelts.
The Democrats were the party of social conservatism, moralism and racism but obviously the Republicans had a tinge of that but it was mostly business. Nixon and JFK had a fight over MLK and JFK prevailed by visiting MLK in prison and giving speeches for him.
Nixon went on employ the Southern Strategy by sweeping up the solid south and all of its now disenfranchised racists. Alot of dems today say they "dogwhistled" about states rights, which is true. However, they make the mistake of assuming that states rights meant racism to everybody back then and that it still does for most today.
After that. it was just a matter of time before progressives fully backed one party. The dems had the legacy of FDR and now JFK. With FDR they were fully in the business of big government and with JFK they were fully in the business of "social justice". Sure the Repubs had engaged in progressivism but MLK is better optics.
The Republicans had no choice but to tap into the reactionaries that were horrified by the radical change. They weren't invented, in fact they just became concentrated in one party.
The Republican party is a populist party. The members decide the policy by electing strong personalities and the parties message varies based on the region. The Republicans picked Trump so they went down the path of protectionism.
The Democrats are a centrally planned party. Bernie was a wildcard but the system was rigged against him. Nobody seriously considered challenging her.
The Republican system is more honest but you get more people saying dumb shit. The Democratic system is good at tard wrangling. However, that system breaks down when the tards take over the asylum.
In most countries, its the more conservative faction that is better at tard wrangling. The Democrats origins as a conservative party and the Republican parties origins as a progressive party have really made your history weird.
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"Our" values. I'm extremely to the right and I'd abort the Hartley hooligans right now for $20.
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Because we're told to... by the left. I could understand it in 1958 but [current year] and all, but I guess nobody's even printed out the memos yet that segregation isn't a thing anymore.
I wouldn't even need that much money, I'd do it out of mercy.
I wouldn't even need that much money, I'd do it out of mercy.
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Motherly instinct, compassion. Everyone needs a chance and a participation trophy, but those set on becoming the best shouldn't be allowed to do so.
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So what are these "racist problems" eh? Is not pandering considered "racist" now? The easiest answer for why 2/3rds of asians vote democrat is simple, they largely live in large cities that...wait for it...vote democrat by a huge margin. You dont see many asians in smaller cities or towns, or areas that are not hard blue. Could it be racism? Perhaps, in some fever dream, but in reality it is probably more related to cultural differences, many asian immigrants prefer to live in urban areas close to work, use public transport, and often stick to majorly asian populated areas. This creates a feedback loop of asians staying in very blue areas and thus being more likely to vote blue themselves. Even then, 1/3 dont vote democrat, its not like ALL asians vote democrat.
A reminder as well that the democrats have openly spoken against people with white skin, while promoting people with black skin simply because they were black (affirmative action). That is, by definition, racism. They also attack and demean people for being of one sexual orientation, while promoting other types. That is, by definition, sexism.
So 15 years ago? You do know the republicans were not a minority party for the last 50 years right? Or are you referring to the pre civil rights america, where the "progressive" democrats ruled the south, where they passed jim crow laws and....ooops. What was that about conservatives being bad for minorities again?
Altruistic my ass. The democrats passed obamacare, and royally fucked it up jacking up prices and giving insurance companies a free ticket to run a train on the asses of the self employed and those without insurance already. And democrats did so while trying to take money from people via higher taxes. Goes against the very definition of altruistic.
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Come on, don't play the definition game. The Democrats weren't progressive in the 50s. Nobody was progressive in the 50s by modern standards. It's about actions, not labels. The Dixiecrats became Republicans (see: Strom Thurmond). Do you actually think Republicans are the party that cares about black people getting a better shot at life? Also, you clearly don't know what sexism means. What you're describing would be 'heterophobia'. Did your parents send you to some shitty charter school or something?
I don't like Obamacare because it's not a left wing policy. It's neoliberal. Obama was a terrible president.
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If you don't want to play the definition game, dont come out using it, only to cry when someone else does it to you and blows your arguments out of the water.
The democrats from 2008 are not considered "progressive" by current "progressives" either, your definition of "progressive" is worthless in a historical context. Many of the progressives in the 60s were republicans, they were a major supporter of civil rights, and those people did not all register as (d) on the next ballot. The southern strategy did result in some shifting views, but the democrats didnt all magically become republicans overnight or some dumb shit like that. Many of the democrats that were in power in the south in the 50s were still there in the 70s, as democrats.
Republicans think everyone should have the opportunity to do what they want, thats why they are against regulations that give one group an advantage over other groups. They dont care if you are black, latino, white, ece. Everybody should have the opportunity to do what they want, and the outcome will not be equal because not everybody is going to put the same work in, or know the same skills.
Democrats, OTOH, seem obsessed with blacks and Latinos doing better then whites, and want the government to enforce this "equality" upon American institutions. Awfully racist of them.
Sexism is being prejudices against someone based on their sexual orientation. And gender is a synonym for sex, no matter what liberal snoflake professors cry about on tumblr. So democratic senators criticizing people for being straight men is sexism. "Heterophobia" would be fear of people with a straight sexual orientation (and also indication someone is mentally deranged and should be locked up for being fucked in the head), which is ALSO prejudice against someone based on sexual orientation, and thus sexism, you dumb motherfucker.
So, by your definition, democrats today are not left wing, they are neo-liberals, because as you said, "its about actions, not labels". So if they are not left wing politicians, why do you claim women vote for them because they are left wing?
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Sexism is being prejudiced against someone for being a man or a woman. It has literally never, ever meant prejudice due to sexual orientation. I don't know how you're this stupid.
Women vote for Democrats because they're the lesser of two evils. The Democrats suck, everyone knows that, Republicans suck more.
Republicans think everyone should have the opportunity to do what they want? What if you want to have an abortion? Guess that's racially equal so it's fine. Guess it's irrelevant that Republicans don't provide everyone with the same opportunity, like the state government of Michigan that took over the Detroit public schools, where a federal judge ruled that students don't have the right to learn how to read.
You didn't answer my charter school question, so I guess it's true and your parents didn't love you enough to send you to a real school (or homeschool you).
Women vote for Democrats because they're the lesser of two evils. The Democrats suck, everyone knows that, Republicans suck more.
Republicans think everyone should have the opportunity to do what they want? What if you want to have an abortion? Guess that's racially equal so it's fine. Guess it's irrelevant that Republicans don't provide everyone with the same opportunity, like the state government of Michigan that took over the Detroit public schools, where a federal judge ruled that students don't have the right to learn how to read.
You didn't answer my charter school question, so I guess it's true and your parents didn't love you enough to send you to a real school (or homeschool you).
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