Even Fox News showed polling recently that the majority of the population approves of the policies that are considered "Socialist," i.e., Healthcare For All, free college tuition/student loan forgiveness, and so on.
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I think Dems need to win by having younger folks help with their messaging. Not young pit bulls but hit people up on things like Twitter. AOC's gaming stream was big. Like all you see on Twitter is Pelosi hate or Dem's bill fluff. Trump mastered weaponizing Twitter. Use the shit back at them. The average voter understands sight words like a 1st grader. They are not going to research if something is true. Hit em with something simple and truthful and transparent over and over.
Even Fox News showed polling recently that the majority of the population approves of the policies that are considered "Socialist," i.e., Healthcare For All, free college tuition/student loan forgiveness, and so on.
Fox News exit polls accidentally show Americans are liberal
They support abortion, gun control, government healthcare, and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
I made a thread way back when that shit popped off about how that slogan sucked. The fact you had to explain what it meant was the dumbest shit ever.You mean that "defund the police" might not be an effective way to advocate for police reform?
Even Fox News showed polling recently that the majority of the population approves of the policies that are considered "Socialist," i.e., Healthcare For All, free college tuition/student loan forgiveness, and so on.
Fox News exit polls accidentally show Americans are liberal
They support abortion, gun control, government healthcare, and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
You mean that "defund the police" might not be an effective way to advocate for police reform?
Instead they could have used something like "Rethink the Police" "Demilitarize the Police" or "Reform the Police"
Man. The entire country was supporting their movement. The polling was great... then the dems came out running with that, I was like
Man. I bet you the GOP laughed behind closed doors.
I swear that the fact that people supported it was the problem.
A good portion of the "progressive Black" left love gate keeping shit...
Why are Blacks Democrats?
African Americans are Democrats. Since 1968 no Republican presidential candidate has received more than 13% of the African American vote and surveys of African Americans regularly show that upwards of 80% of African Americans self-identify as Democrats. However, understanding why African...press.princeton.edu
"African Americans are Democrats. Since 1968 no Republican presidential candidate has received more than 13% of the African American vote and surveys of African Americans regularly show that upwards of 80% of African Americans self-identify as Democrats. However, understanding why African Americans are such steadfast supporters of the Democratic Party is not as straightforward as it seems. Although committed to the Democratic Party, African Americans are actually one of the most conservative blocs of Democratic supporters. As political scientist Tasha Philpot’s 2017 book title suggests, African Americans are “Conservative but Not Republican.” Understanding how it is that African Americans have been able to maintain such strong support for the Democratic Party despite their increasingly diverging interest with the party is the subject of our new book, Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior.
In the book we show that African Americans have a long, complicated history with party politics. Historically, blacks have been part of both major parties. When African American men first obtained the right to vote after the passage of the 15th Amendment in 1870 they nearly all identified and supported the Republican Party and its candidates; rewarding the Party of Lincoln for its commitment to ending slavery and expanding black civil rights. However, as political power was gradually returned to Southern Democrats, in part through the 1877 compromise which resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election, African Americans, who at this time nearly all resided in Southern states, were once again stripped of their voting rights.
It would not be until the early 20th century, following the large-scale migration of African Americans to Northern cities in search of employment and refuge from the repressive Jim Crow policies of the South, that we would see African Americans reengaging in party politics. In the North, the Democratic Party, through its commitment to organized labor would for the first time begin making inroads with black voters. Despite this, many African Americans both North and South maintained commitments to the Republican Party. It was only when the Democratic Party took up the mantle of Civil Rights in the mid to late 1960’s that black support for the Party coalesced into the reliable Democratic voting bloc we know today.
While the historical antecedents of black Democratic party support are rather straight forward, understanding how it is that, for nearly 50 years, black Americans have been able to remain unified in their support for the Democratic Party, is a more complicated question, especially given the growing economic and political diversity of African Americans over this time period. For example, since the 1960’s there has been significant growth in both the black middle and upper classes and perhaps even more interesting, substantial diversification of black political views. Since the 1960’s blacks have become increasingly more moderate and even conservative on a number of important political issues including certain racial policies. Why haven’t these changes resulted in an opportunity for Republicans to gain support from African Americans?
In the book we argue that in an effort to leverage their political strength as a minority group in a majority based political system, black Americans have come to prioritize group solidarity in party politics. This partisan loyalty is maintained through a strategic social process that we call racialized social constraint, where by support for the Democratic Party has come to be defined as a norm of group behavior. In other words, supporting the Democratic Party has come to be understood as just something you do as a black person, an expectation of behavior meant to empower the racial group.
Adherence with this norm of Democratic Party support is insured through a set of social rewards and penalties which recognize compliance and punish defection of racial group members. Interestingly, it is the social and spatial segregation of black Americans that makes all this work. It is through racially segregated spaces that blacks become aware of the importance of the party norm for the racial group. And it is within these segregated spaces that social rewards for compliance and penalties for defection can come to define an individual’s social status within the group. The result of all this is that to the extent that any individual black American values their relationship with other black Americans, they will continue to act in accordance with the group norm of party support lest they find themselves socially isolated.
This decision to ensure collective action for the larger group interest is an effective strategy for leveraging political power, especially in a two-party system. A divided group minimizes the likelihood of responsiveness by either party, but as a partisan voting bloc, blacks are positioned to push their issues onto the party agenda. If the Democrats fail to be responsive blacks can threaten to withhold their vote by not turning out. This is how racialized social constraint maintains both black party loyalty and black political power."
You mean that many wouldn't have supported "tort reform" if it was called "limiting the ability of patients to sue the motherfuckers who maimed them"?
okay...just for some perspective:
There are plenty third parties. None of them have enough influence ($$$) to really make a real run though. Closest one was the Reform Party many years ago.
Why are Blacks Democrats?
African Americans are Democrats. Since 1968 no Republican presidential candidate has received more than 13% of the African American vote and surveys of African Americans regularly show that upwards of 80% of African Americans self-identify as Democrats. However, understanding why African...
"African Americans are Democrats. Since 1968 no Republican presidential candidate has received more than 13% of the African American vote and surveys of African Americans regularly show that upwards of 80% of African Americans self-identify as Democrats. However, understanding why African Americans are such steadfast supporters of the Democratic Party is not as straightforward as it seems. Although committed to the Democratic Party, African Americans are actually one of the most conservative blocs of Democratic supporters. As political scientist Tasha Philpot’s 2017 book title suggests, African Americans are “Conservative but Not Republican.” Understanding how it is that African Americans have been able to maintain such strong support for the Democratic Party despite their increasingly diverging interest with the party is the subject of our new book, Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior.
In the book we show that African Americans have a long, complicated history with party politics. Historically, blacks have been part of both major parties. When African American men first obtained the right to vote after the passage of the 15th Amendment in 1870 they nearly all identified and supported the Republican Party and its candidates; rewarding the Party of Lincoln for its commitment to ending slavery and expanding black civil rights. However, as political power was gradually returned to Southern Democrats, in part through the 1877 compromise which resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election, African Americans, who at this time nearly all resided in Southern states, were once again stripped of their voting rights.
It would not be until the early 20th century, following the large-scale migration of African Americans to Northern cities in search of employment and refuge from the repressive Jim Crow policies of the South, that we would see African Americans reengaging in party politics. In the North, the Democratic Party, through its commitment to organized labor would for the first time begin making inroads with black voters. Despite this, many African Americans both North and South maintained commitments to the Republican Party. It was only when the Democratic Party took up the mantle of Civil Rights in the mid to late 1960’s that black support for the Party coalesced into the reliable Democratic voting bloc we know today.
While the historical antecedents of black Democratic party support are rather straight forward, understanding how it is that, for nearly 50 years, black Americans have been able to remain unified in their support for the Democratic Party, is a more complicated question, especially given the growing economic and political diversity of African Americans over this time period. For example, since the 1960’s there has been significant growth in both the black middle and upper classes and perhaps even more interesting, substantial diversification of black political views. Since the 1960’s blacks have become increasingly more moderate and even conservative on a number of important political issues including certain racial policies. Why haven’t these changes resulted in an opportunity for Republicans to gain support from African Americans?
In the book we argue that in an effort to leverage their political strength as a minority group in a majority based political system, black Americans have come to prioritize group solidarity in party politics. This partisan loyalty is maintained through a strategic social process that we call racialized social constraint, where by support for the Democratic Party has come to be defined as a norm of group behavior. In other words, supporting the Democratic Party has come to be understood as just something you do as a black person, an expectation of behavior meant to empower the racial group.
Adherence with this norm of Democratic Party support is insured through a set of social rewards and penalties which recognize compliance and punish defection of racial group members. Interestingly, it is the social and spatial segregation of black Americans that makes all this work. It is through racially segregated spaces that blacks become aware of the importance of the party norm for the racial group. And it is within these segregated spaces that social rewards for compliance and penalties for defection can come to define an individual’s social status within the group. The result of all this is that to the extent that any individual black American values their relationship with other black Americans, they will continue to act in accordance with the group norm of party support lest they find themselves socially isolated.
This decision to ensure collective action for the larger group interest is an effective strategy for leveraging political power, especially in a two-party system. A divided group minimizes the likelihood of responsiveness by either party, but as a partisan voting bloc, blacks are positioned to push their issues onto the party agenda. If the Democrats fail to be responsive blacks can threaten to withhold their vote by not turning out. This is how racialized social constraint maintains both black party loyalty and black political power."
Yes indeed more black folk aren't republicans because of racism. The other factor that was stated is influence. You see a few people talking about starting a black party but we don't have the numbers.
Digital is the only thing keeping the GOP alive. The fact that most of these companies are in Pelosi's back yard is more embarrassing.
