Posted on 11/19/2014 8:59:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It wasn’t all that long ago that the Democrats were predicting the end of the Republican Party.
With the rise of Obama, James Carville began peddling a new book “40 More Years” promising that the Dems would rule for generations.
Just this year Carville predicted that the Republican Party would become extinct if it lost to Hillary Clinton. But it was the Democratic Party that was going extinct in Carville’s own backyard.
Republicans began winning Senate seats in Louisiana for the first time in a century in just the last ten years. If Landrieu loses, then both of the Louisiana’s Senate seats will be unprecedentedly held by Republicans.
And Louisiana isn’t an outlier. Bill Clinton couldn’t stop Arkansas from going full Republican with two Republican senators and a full suite of Republican representatives for the first time in history. That’s all the more amazing in a state that only had two Republican senators before that for over a century.
The Democratic Party is going extinct in places like Louisiana, Arkansas and West Virginia. It’s vanishing because the working class White Democrat is becoming extinct.
Even Carville hedged his bets while predicting the end of the Republican Party by joining FOX News.
A generation ago, white Democrats outnumbered white Republicans. Today it’s the other way around. Under Obama, barely a quarter of white people still identify as Democrats.
Republicans didn’t just win a few elections. They swept across entire legislatures in western and southern states. They took state senates and governorships in places like New York and Illinois. It’s not that Republicans had a particularly compelling message, some did and some didn’t, but that Democrats had assumed that enough white voters would continue showing up to prop up their rainbow coalition.
They were wrong.
The latest Pew poll shows that 74 percent of Democrats support ObamaCare, but only 29 percent of white respondents do. The Democratic Party is becoming a party without white people. Under Obama, the Democratic disadvantage among white voters doubled without any corresponding gains among minority voters.
Meanwhile Republicans increased their share of white voters. And that’s only telling part of the story.
The nation’s largest party is “none of the above”. Independents began to decisively outnumber both parties under Obama. Hispanic voters are increasingly identifying as independents. So are white men.
And though the independents come from both parties, they increasingly swing Republican in key races.
The Democratic model depended on the combination of an overwhelming minority vote combined with a second place showing in the white vote. That model may no longer be feasible, especially in states with a shortage of unemployed white hipsters with PhDs and protest signs who know all the latest social warrior mumbo jumbo but can’t change a flat tire.
The Democrats had to bet on turnout and changing demographics to salvage the situation. They played up racial tensions to increase turnout and championed open borders to shift demographics and those tactics only deepened their problems with white voters.
Tribalism helped Obama win a second term, but it didn’t fix the underlying flaw in the Democratic model. And it actually worsened the situation. The more the Democrats sounded racially divisive notes, the more they alienated white voters, not just by abusing them, but by ignoring their concerns.
ObamaCare became emblematic of a party that tuned out what used to be its base. And so its base left forcing the Democrats to discover that they couldn’t actually win without white voters.
Republican congressional candidates won 64 percent of white working class voters. Landrieu won just 18 percent of the white vote; 22 percent among white women and 15 percent among white men. That’s less than the amount taken by a second Republican candidate in the race, Rob Maness.
Those numbers alone indicate why the Democrats won’t put any real money behind her. If Landrieu can’t even compete for the white vote, then there’s no reason to waste good money on her.
Mark Pryor won only 31 percent of white voters. Nunn won 23 percent of white voters. The Dems didn’t do this badly everywhere, but where they lost it was usually because the white vote sharply tilted away from them enough to offset their overwhelming minority percentages.
The Democrats have a white voter problem. The party is betting that it won’t outlast Obama because it confused its own propaganda with reality and decided that white voters hate Obama because he’s black.
It was never Obama’s race that was the problem. It was the Democratic Party’s embrace of leftist radicalism at the national level while waging identity politics wars along the lines of race and gender.
Republicans don’t have a problem with black people. Democrats do have a problem with white people.
The party is now under the sway of an elitist class of white leftists for whom “white people” is an insult, not a group of voters. And by “white people” they mean the sort of voters who conclusively tossed them out in West Virginia, Nevada and Arkansas.
The elitists of the new Democratic Party envision themselves as the white protectors and organizers of a minority country whose property and rights they will redistribute as they see fit in a new Socialist order. There is absolutely nothing in this creepy little vision that appeals to anyone except the grubby Grubers frustrated at having to work so hard to dupe the insufficiently stupid American voters who won’t just let them play with their health care toys without insisting on tediously voting against higher taxes.
It’s this elite that steadily began alienating white voters with its policies. The situation became critical under Obama not because of his race, but because he fully endorsed their insane power grab.
Now the Democrats are hoping that Hillary Clinton can save their party, but first she has to decide who she is. Hillary has tried to play up racial appeals to white voters before overcorrecting and going the other way. At times she sounds like she wants to appeal to working class voters and at other times she returns to her native element pushing the policy toys of the technocracy.
Instead of the Democratic Party’s Great White Hope, Hillary more closely resembles Mary Landrieu veering between accusations of racism and support for the Keystone pipeline. The left’s attacks on Landrieu for supporting the pipeline only highlight the impossible dilemma of any Democrat trying to run to the right of Obama and Nancy Pelosi. They have to either abandon their voters or their party.
Unlike European parties, American politicians were supposed to put loyalty to their constituents ahead of loyalty to their party. The Democratic Party put its own politicians in the impossible position of being defined by a centralized party seeking to eliminate anything reeking of conservatism while expecting them to win in conservative parts of the country. The Dems didn’t lose. They committed suicide.
The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left that it has alienated all white voters who aren’t on the left and its botched programs like ObamaCare are even beginning to alienate minority voters. Minority support for ObamaCare has hit a new low. Finding white support for ObamaCare requires a microscope.
But the Democratic Party can’t change. It has become dependent on a small donor class of men like Bloomberg, Soros and Steyer whose ad buys and think tanks dictate their agenda. To win, Hillary, Biden and any other candidate must first win over billionaires whose priorities of gun control, no pipeline and lots of big government are exactly the things that have pushed the Democratic Party to the edge.
James Carville was half-right about the 2016 election. If Hillary doesn’t win it, one of the big two parties may go extinct. But it won’t be the Republicans.
I see LOTS of white Democrats .... WOMEN!!!
Even white liberals start getting tired of being called “racist” after a while.
Why would any thinking white vote dem? I can’t think of any good reason.
The effectiveness of any communication depends on intention.If her intention is not clear, strong, and unambiguous, her effectiveness will be unsatisfactory in producing a long-term positive relationship with the people.
Now you understand why your betters are going to replace you.
If your citizens won’t go along with what you have planned for them, open the border and import new citizens by the millions.
“White” is an obfuscation of what really constitutes the ideological group of which they speak.
“Those of the culture of Western Civilization, based on Judaeo-Christian morality, based on the revealed Word of God.”
“White” is just a way of impugning those who ascribe to the above culture as “racist”.
Bertolt Brecht, "The Solution"
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people And elect another?
We are all just an embarrassment to our Overseers.
I see LOTS of white Democrats .... WOMEN!!!”
The Communist party decided, I think in the 30s, that they could not take over the world with just white working class men They decided they needed to go after women and minorities I order to succeed.
They have been largely successful in this endeavor, but woops, they seem to be losing the white working class men.
And hopefully more and more rational, thinking women and minorities will come to recognize that the Democrats really want to have a large plantation of the clueless that they can rule over.
Still way too many white Democrats in New York, New Hanpshire, New Jersey, and Vermont, to say nothing of SINGLE WHITE WOMEN everywhere!
Well their problem is that (I am man, btw), but I can assume that most white women want to be in a long term relationships with a man, so they don’t live in bubble..
You answered your own question with one word: “thinking”.
The Democrats have a white male problem.
Hillary Clinton, the feminist and privileged white woman can’t attract enough of them to win.
In a nutshell, that’s the Democrats’ problem.
The Democratic coalition consists of young single women, angry feminists, p*ssed off blacks, militant gays, intransigent enviro nazis and pampered gentry liberals. A true rainbow coalition.
Its just not enough to win anymore.
ping
Thx!
You missed the Hispanics, there may be another 5,500.000 on their way north even as we speak.
Regards.
GtG
Sadly, I know conservative men who are in relationships with liberal women. A lot of women seem to believe that they have to have their $4.00 a month free birth control and the Republicans have a war on them to make them pay their own birth control.
Basically, they sell their votes for $48.00 a year.
I’m not sure the Hispanics are all that excited.
Obama wants to bribe them with amnesty.
But where’s the beef?
Again, thanks! One of the best articles on this subject that I’ve seen. Although I’m not quite as optimistic as he is of the Dems imploding, given the voting patterns of the emerging Millenial generation. They’re starting to come around, and being the real stuckees of Obamacare and Obamanomics it’s happening faster than it otherwise would, but too many of them are still swayed by “social justice” noise issues put forward by the Dems rather than substantive matters like economics or national security.
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