One of the more salutary outcomes of the recent election is that Democrats are finally beginning to question the wisdom of basing their fortunes on identity politics. www.washingtonpost.com/...
Were we the party that had White Racists show up at our rallies? When you have African Americans, Hispanics, Women, LGBT all showing up and agreeing to support each other’s goals politically thats Unity. When you have one group denying they get the majority of stuff White Privilege, more funding for their public schools, more federal dollars for their states than they pay the federal government in taxes well thats what we call Tyranny trying to deny its a Tyrant.
They’re reconsidering now not because identity politics balkanizes society, creates state-chosen favored groups and fosters communal strife. They’re reconsidering because it’s not working. www.washingtonpost.com/...
Really? wining the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections isn’t winning? Granted we won the presidency in only four of those elections but does Charlie really want to brag about an election system that picked Trump and Bush 2? Any bets in 4 years Charlie and other TV talking heads will be doing to Trump what they did to Bush after he left office they poo poo Bush and say how he was never one of them even as they admit now that he was an idiot.
And why assume that identity politics creates permanent allegiances? Take the Hispanic vote. Both Mitt Romney and Donald Trump won less than 30 percent, but in 2004 George W. Bush won 44 percent. Why assume that the GOP cannot be competitive again? www.washingtonpost.com/…
Charlie, Trump wants to deport every Illegal Immigrant he called them rapists and drug dealers guess what some people believe Trump most Whites and most Police can’t tell if a person is legal, Cuban, Puerto Rican or Illegal and Mexican. So they error on the side of caution and treat us all like crap. Never mind that
A new report from the Immigration Policy Center notes that while the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. more than tripled between 1990 and 2013 to more than 11.2 million, “FBI data indicate that the violent crime rate declined 48%—which included falling rates of aggravated assault, robbery, rape, and murder. Likewise, the property crime rate fell 41%, including declining rates of motor vehicle theft, larceny/robbery, and burglary.” www.wsj.com/...
And we use drugs less than Whites too Charles while your President is Mr Sniffy ( cocaine??..?)
Native American youth fared worst, with 15% having a substance use disorder, compared to 9.2% for people of mixed racial heritage, 9.0% for whites, 7.7% for Hispanics, 5% for African Americans and 3.5% for Asians and Pacific Islanders. healthland.time.com/...
It does not matter if you are not illegal and not Mexican if everyone treats you like one just because your Brown and or speak with an accent.
As these groups evolve socioeconomically, their political allegiances can easily change. This is particularly true for the phenomenally successful Asian American community. There is no reason the more entrepreneurial party, the GOP, should continue to lose this vote by more than 2 to 1. www.washingtonpost.com/...
About that
Asian-Americans must score 140 points higher on average than whites on the math and verbal portions of the SAT in order to have the same chances of admission. In the next generation, legacy preferences will essentially freeze in place the unfair advantage white applicants enjoy over Asian applicants by giving the children of today’s white college students a leg up in admissions. www.nytimes.com/...
My bold Charlie imagine that you work hard, study and you miss the cutoff to go to Harvard or Wharton by one point or 140 points next imagine that you see morons like Trump and Bush mangle sentences, cut taxes and think government revenue will go up ( when has that ever happened in the Real World?) then deny global warming science just because they don’t believe it.
But these guys got to go to Harvard Wharton and you didn’t because their parents did and or their parents donate tall cash to the school tell me Charlie wouldn’t you be angry?
Oh wait Affirmative Action? Well African American and Hispanic schools are underfunded compared to White schools if the playing field was level and any group(s) got preferential treatment that would be one thing. But its not is it in fact
African-Americans and Latinos are hurt by legacy preferences for a different set of reasons than Asian-Americans: even with affirmative action programs, black and Hispanic students are grossly underrepresented at selective colleges today. They will, therefore, be grossly underrepresented among the children of alumni in the next generation. www.nytimes.com/...
The problem with lies is when you start to believe them, Tyranny can’t admit to itself what it is so it blames others for all their own problems, people like Charlie help the powerful deal with their guilt about unearned priviledge they speak comforting lies to power to keep their jobs.