I know it’s not “PC” to recognize the truth in some instances but the simple truth is that the constituancy in question bought into living on the democrat plantation over 50 years ago and they have been dumbed down through several generations of public (government) school to the point where even if you hit them over the head with the truth they wouldn’t see it.
When you poll black people on their beliefs the arregate result is generally conservative on most issues. But when you point out that the Democratic Party’s entire history and policies have been antithetical to the best interests of the black community, and that to the extent that a major political party is responsible for any political and civil liberty that black people have, they owe it to the Republican Party, and even when you can prove that historically and factually the most amazing case of political cognitive dissonance then occurs.
The common response is, well that may be true but only the Democrats are “for us”. They usually go on to an entirely erroneous understanding of Nixon’s Southern strategy, a distortion of Berry Goldwater’s principled opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and completely ignore the fact that the Democratic Party was founded amongst other things, to extend slavery into the territory’s. The Democratic Party opposed 13, 14, and 15th amendment to the United States Constitution, reconstruction, every bit of foundational civil rights legislation from 1866 to 1968, instituted Jim Crow in the Southern states, refused to enact antilynching laws, and most importantly destroyed the two-parent black family with Lyndon Johnson’s welfare state. When you point out the fact that the modern-day Democratic Party is home to the pro-abortion forces that have enhanced the wildly disproportionate abortion rate in the black community, that doesn’t seem to register either.
The black community is in the throes of the worst political brainwashing outside of the Soviet Union and I just don’t know what can be done about it. I constantly engaged in debates with people in my community and they are determined to vote for Democrats despite the clear and present evidence of their utterly destructive policies. The staggeringly high level of political cognitive dissonance amongst my people is frightening.
I can see that. It’s not a good thing to be on the dole either, black or white. They become used to it, generation after generation, and they are lied to in college about how awful America is and has been to their race. Don’t they realize that white Christians were the ones who brought them out of slavery? Gerrit Smith and his abolitionists were a stone’s throw from where I live.