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When the entire country is calling for defund the police, this motherfucker seriously expands federal funding to police, but what else would you expect from someone that authored the crime bill and has incarcerated millions of black men? Selected a cop for a vice president, and has always been authoritarian
The furthest left sliver of the Democratic party can sometimes agree on defunding police based on a definition of that that most other people don't even know. Nothing you said bears any relation to reality.
And yet, black voters strongly supported him in the primary and election. Why do you think that is?
Like Democrats love to say about Republicans, voting against their own self interests
It's interesting isn't it? Say Republicans are voting against their self interest, and everyone will agree. Say black voters are doing the same, and it becomes a whole lot more controversial.
Probably because the racial history behind it, but I appreciate your candor. And of course I don't think you're being racist, you're seeing this as an economic thing vs a race thing, unless I'm mistaken.
Anyway, it does make you think. I'm not a fan of telling people I know better than them, yet I have no problem saying that about Republicans. It's food for thought, and a self analysis I've been working on for a while. I'm glad that you brought it up.
There are very clearly some things we know Republican voters are wrong about -- LGBT rights, climate change, race and sex, etc. And we know Republican politicians are playing them like a fiddle. But do we know better than them? Or are we not seeing what they're seeing? Are we missing something, like perhaps misjudging their priorities and views? Either we're all intellectually superior to all of them, or there's an understanding we lack. Maybe if we gained that, we could actually sway them politically.
And I know we probably disagree if it is in their self interest or against it, but I figured a river of my thoughts would end up being more productive for us both.