Join Pesident Trump and the MAGA movement, China, do yourself a favor.
Posted on 06/21/2017 6:46:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republicans won special elections in Georgia and South Carolina, ending all talk of a referendum on Donald Trump's leadership.
White men and women (and their allies) run the Democratic Party, including the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.
Yes, people who are 10 shades lighter than me run all of the committees. So are their consultants who receive big bucks to lose pivotal races like Tuesday’s special elections in Georgia and South Carolina.
The races were supposed to be referendums on Donald Trump and his policies, but only served to boost his already inflated ego. Check out the following tweets:
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Fact is, the country is becoming more diverse by the minute. Unless Democrats get in sync with the changing demographics and hire people who can tap into the diverse perspectives of voters, the party will continue to lose elections and its base of Blacks, Latinx, and the working class. In full disclosure, I’m a Black woman from the South and a registered Democrat. We lost Tuesday night and I’m not surprised.
Let me break it down: while over 30 percent of the people in the U.S. are of color, out of 535 federal legislative seats, there are only 49 Black people and 38 Latinx sitting in those seats. More specifically, the Senate only has one Black woman, Kamala Harris of California, and four Hispanics.
So Democrats are going to run a diverse bench to win 2018 elections, right? Well that should be the case, but Democrats do not have a deep bench of players to call into the game. You know who’s really good at investing in statewide and local races and building a bench AND winning? Republicans!
As a result, Democrats lost two races the party could have won. Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff lost to longtime Republican Karen Handel in Georgia because, in a state that has one of the largest African-America voting populations in the country, most of the strategic advisers and staff were White.
Democrats spent over $30 million on the Georgia race–the most spent on a congressional race in recent U.S. history. In South Carolina, Republican Ralph Norman defeated Democrat Archie Parnell for a congressional seat because the party gave up on the state a long time ago. We figure it’s too red to attempt to flip. That’s obviously not true because Parnell lost only by 3 percent in a district where Democrats typically lose by 19 percent. Democrats criticize the Republican Party for being led by elite, White men, but Democrats have the same problem based on how it spends money.
We are losing because leaders prefer to invest in candidates who are White men, give their money to White consultants, hire White people to staff races, and play the short game of winning congressional races instead of investing in state legislative, mayoral, and city council seats to build a bench.
Who are we going to run for the 2018 U.S. Senate and U.S. House elections? How many of those people are of color? How many of those seats are in the Midwest and South? How many of those races are staffed by people of color? Take your time to answer; I’ll wait.
People of color are no longer interested in losing races by slim margins. Our families are sick, dying, and broke. We want to start winning. The demographics of this country are shifting and if the Democratic Party doesn’t shape up, its base is going to ship it out.
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China Dickerson has worked in politics, government, and community organizing for over 10 years. The Charleston, South Carolina, native currently lives in Washington D.C., where she works as a political strategist, and executive director of D.C. Young Democrats. Follow her on Twitter at @MsChinaD
Yes, Yes, Yes!!
Play the race card to the hilt! Do not hire by performance, but by color! Make sure the money spent on politics is divvied up by skin color. More money should go to people of color than to whites, in order to make up for past racism.
That will make sure they win more races... because ... racism!
Join Pesident Trump and the MAGA movement, China, do yourself a favor.
Well, young lady, tell me, why do so many black voters vote for Democrats? It seems virtually automatic for so many black voters.
Young lady, do you ever think that the Democrats take you and your fellow black voters for granted????? Think about some of these things sometimes.
Apparently the only consideration is “who you are.” There is no concern for policies that work, and policies that fail. There is no concern for America.
Many Republicans were ready to back Alan Keyes and Herman Cain on their merits. It was the liberal, white, Democratic party main-stream media who targeted Herman Cain.
Democratic party solutions do not work for blacks (or for America). For starters, take a look at Chicago.
Democrats: The Macro-Aggression Party
This is great stuff. Trouble in paradise.
Good point. Cities such as Baltimore and Chicago, with huge problems among their black populations, have been run by Democrats for generations.
If electing Democrats, and Democrat party policies were the answer to problems in these places, these cities would be shining cities on a hill. They would be glittering examples of beneficial Democrat policies, if those policies really solved the problems of black America.
Maybe off topic, but it gets me how Democrats sometimes bemoan the problems of some big cities, and the very cities they bemoan the fates of, have been run by Democrats for generations. They are, in effect, criticizing member of their own party, but nobody ever calls them out on that.
Some even have the audacity to claim racism in cities with huge black populations, who are governed by duly elected black politicians. Isn’t that by definition a disconnect in logic and reasoning ability???
I have never hated anyone because of race or skin color. But I’m learning to.
I have noticed the Russian crap is gone.
The party of perception may be perceiving their own existence.
If you wanna start winning, find a job.
Democrats: The party of losers.
The black middle class and black underclass prop up white liberal elites who run the party. Is this the first time this young woman has noticed?
Amazing.
It's a common problem. It almost seems as though reasoning is a lost art. The same with persuasion and civil discourse.
I took a course in logic. Probably the most valuable thing I learned were the informal fallacies. They are informal only because they do not pertain to formal, i.e. symbolic, logic. They include the ad hominem attack, the genetic fallacy, and the argument from authority. I hear these often.
Climate change, and before it global warming, is sold primarily through the argument from authority - a known fallacy.
I have to admit to a reasoning problem myself. Trained as an economist, I see benefits to free trade. So I was supportive of NAFTA, because it is called a free trade agreement. In fact it is not a free trade agreement; it is more of a managed or controlled trade agreement. I was fooled by words used, at best mistakenly, at worst dishonestly. I now think of NAFTA as Not A Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). With that revised foundation, I can reason better on the subject.
Great quote.
It’s really very simple: Social Media has made it impossible for the Democrats to control the Media as they have in previous years.
These are the ethics I would expect from a small child in the third world - “they look like me, they must be like me, think like me”.
And those ethics are why the third world stays that way... and why we shouldn’t want any of them here.
Booker was a very smart man.
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