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Why On Earth Do Minorities Still Vote Democrat?
Jewsih World Review ^ | 8/7/2018 | Alicia Colon

Posted on 08/09/2018 4:37:40 AM PDT by simpson96

After mentioning the Heritage Foundation in one of my columns in the Staten Island Advance, I received an invite to their annual Christmas party at the Union league Club in Manhattan.

After exchanging a few words with a reporter from Associated Press, he said. "How come a woman like you, who grew up in the barrio, ended up being a Republican?" My standard answer to that inquiry has always been, "high IQ."

However my answer, while facetious, was not entirely descriptive of my electoral registration choice. It was more my maverick Aquarian nature that compelled me to decline joining my family's traditional devotion to the Democrat Party. Yet my political junkie status began as a teenager, who along with nuns in my H.S. was super excited about JFK's candidacy.

Although I could never vote for him, I followed his campaign religiously, nearly touched his hand on a stop on 23rd street and when of age my first presidential vote went to Democrat Hubert Humphrey. I also volunteered to work for Robert Kennedy's senatorial campaign. I never voted for Richard Nixon and was politically naive until Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1976.

Our local Catholic newspaper ran an article about Reagan and I was very impressed with his political views as they squared with my values. I voted for him in the primary which he lost to President Ford who then lost to Jimmy Carter. After becoming president, His influence on the Republican platform converted me into a bona fide Republican. The Democrat party I grew up with had morphed into the socialist party the nuns had warned against. I also began doing the research of the party after watching the D.W. Griffith film, Birth of a Nation.

This blatantly racist film that had been heralded in Hollywood and was

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To: Jim Noble

I would say it was against their natural self interest, but in line with their “perceived” self interest.

Most liberals believe that they are the pigs in Animal Farm. They are equal, but more equal, and when the revolution comes, they will be the politburo members, telling everybody else how to live. Or, they will be founding members of the Committee for Public Safety.


21 posted on 08/09/2018 5:20:35 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: simpson96

They hate white people. Their number 1 priority is to target & hurt white people. Nevermind how destructive their policies are-it’s all about getting whitey.


22 posted on 08/09/2018 5:25:00 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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To: simpson96

love that “High IQ”


23 posted on 08/09/2018 5:25:20 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: simpson96

My latest ‘end of discussion’ with a dumb liberal is just to say “You love the government, that’s how stupid you are”

Because all I ever tell them is to stop spouting slogans, and research things for themselves... and then the lunacy starts.

It amazingly shuts up a lot of them.


24 posted on 08/09/2018 5:27:06 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Ann Archy; All

Santa Claus!

Lazy people like FREE STUFF! Schools & Parents give ‘em everything, so what do you expect!


25 posted on 08/09/2018 5:36:44 AM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 ( Thank GOD Hillary didn't get elected!)
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To: akalinin
I think the reason isn't that complicated. To vote progressive is politically and culturally easy. It takes no courage or constructive thought to follow the herd.

To vote conservative takes thought and effort. THINKING is hard. You have to educate yourself because the truth you seek isn't found in the classroom, media or movies.

If voting conservative wasn't hard, everyone would do it.

26 posted on 08/09/2018 5:41:58 AM PDT by Paco
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To: Chode

Earn like Episcopalians and vote like puertoricans.


27 posted on 08/09/2018 5:47:30 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: simpson96
Why On Earth Do Minorities Still Vote Democrat?

Why do so many whites vote Democrat? Gee, you think turning over the public school system and the entire entertainment industry as well as nearly all mainstream media organizations over to liberals might have something to do with it?
28 posted on 08/09/2018 5:52:05 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek (q)
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To: Carl Vehse

Interesting reviews of the book on Amazon.


29 posted on 08/09/2018 5:52:13 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: simpson96

30 posted on 08/09/2018 5:52:54 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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To: simpson96

Lack of truthful knowledge, Brainwashed with lies.


31 posted on 08/09/2018 5:56:03 AM PDT by mulligan (EeThe)
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To: simpson96

Alicia is good people. Very cool person and wonderful writer.


32 posted on 08/09/2018 5:58:49 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: wbarmy

Why do you say it’s against their natural self-interest?

Since 1965, ten trillion dollars, maybe more, have been given to minorities for no work and no effort. Entire categories of high paying jobs have been reserved for them. Expensive university educations have been showered on them without the normal qualification process. Their opinions and grievances have been elevated to the highest possible status in the information, social, and entertainment industries.

Of course voting to keep this up is in their natural self interest.


33 posted on 08/09/2018 5:59:59 AM PDT by Jim Noble (p)
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To: Jim Noble

Because very few of them actually got anything but a pittance from this. Most of it was given to federal bureaucrats who passed some of it to state bureaucrats who passed some of it to local bureaucrats who passed some of it to community leaders and organizers who stole as much as they could.

The actual “recipients” were kept dumb and stupid, thinking the reason they did not get more of this largess was because of the evil taxpayers, not their own representatives.

Their real interest would have been to vote for Republicans or conservatives, who wanted them to have jobs.


34 posted on 08/09/2018 6:04:59 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Jim Noble

Because very few of them actually got anything but a pittance from this. Most of it was given to federal bureaucrats who passed some of it to state bureaucrats who passed some of it to local bureaucrats who passed some of it to community leaders and organizers who stole as much as they could.

The actual “recipients” were kept dumb and stupid, thinking the reason they did not get more of this largess was because of the evil taxpayers, not their own representatives.

Their real interest would have been to vote for Republicans or conservatives, who wanted them to have jobs.


35 posted on 08/09/2018 6:05:00 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: simpson96
Why On Earth Do Jews Still Vote Democrat?

It's because leftards depend on altruism, and Jews are trained to accept altruism as one of the highest virtues. Altruism requires sacrifice of values, which is anti-life, because life requires gaining and keeping values.

36 posted on 08/09/2018 6:12:25 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Ann Archy

Public school education, and giving away personal responsibility in favor of government crumbs for sustenance.


37 posted on 08/09/2018 6:17:43 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: simpson96
... I answered in all ignorance that the Democrats were for the poor and the Republicans were for the rich. That statement has never been true but that is what most Americans have been taught to believe...

Well, it is true -- after a fashion.

Democrats want to prevent the common man from becoming rich. Republicans want to teach the common man how to become rich, and remove barriers to his upward progress.

38 posted on 08/09/2018 6:27:02 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: simpson96

For the Free Sh!t.


39 posted on 08/09/2018 6:28:33 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: simpson96

Because they are very racial and most hate or have disdain for whites?


40 posted on 08/09/2018 6:28:56 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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