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« on: November 10, 2016, 05:30:52 AM »

Part 2:  The Problem With The Democratic Party

The problem with the Democratic Party is simple and easy to understand.  The party has gone overboard with its identity-politics-based "coalition of the ascendent" strategy, it's drowning in snark, self-righteousness, moral superiority and ego, and it goes out of its way to alienate vast swaths of the country.

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The Black Lives Matter movement has been a perfect example this year.  If you don't believe me, go talk to a conservative about what's wrong with this country, and within five minutes you'll probably hear about BLM.  It's not that conservatives don't care about police brutality.  And it's not really about the false narrative driving the movement.  It's that in BLM they see social disorder, riots, absurd demands, black power movements, anti-Americanism, and racism in a very thin disguise of a political movement.  When Beyonce comes out at the Superbowl and does a black power thing, many Americans see that as a threat against them, racism, promotion and glorification of a violent organization.  When Colin Kaepernick refuses to kneel at the pledge because America is a racist country, many Americans see that as the next evolution of an anti-American, anti-white (after all, who are the racists he's talking about?) movement.  BLM, Beyonce, Colin Kaepernick, they're not the problem in and of themselves or in isolation so much as they are crystallizations of this feeling among so many white Americans that the left wants to shove down their throats that they are racist, privileged, and therefore socially inferior to minority groups, that they don't deserve to be heard or have their concerns addressed, that they should have things taken from them to help those minority groups.



the best part Wink

On the whole, I disagree with you on economy: I think that "tax the rich people", high minimun wage,... are popular.
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