Posted on 10/11/2018 7:34:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democrats need 90% black turnout and 90% black support in order to win elections on a national scale. Anything that erodes either number is a mortal threat. And they must be sensing softness, if not outright desertion in the face of three factors:
1. Blacks have done far better under Trump than Obama in terms of rising employment opportunities and rising wages. The growth in manufacturing employment in particular has pushed up wages in the segments of the labor market with heavy black participation. Very few people of any color prefer life on food stamps and unemployment insurance to gainful employment at rising wages.
2. The enthusiastic support of Kanye West, slated to visit the White House along with football icon ”Big Jim” Brown (as President Trump affectionately calls him), powerfully diminishes the ability of Democrats to call on ethnic solidarity to spike turnout and support.
3. The Democrats’ embrace of political correctness is very unattractive to black voters. Steven Hayward of Powerline cites a startling study revealing the depth of repugnance felt by blacks and Hispanics toward PC:
Asians (82 percent), Hispanics (87 percent), and American Indians (88 percent) who are most likely to oppose political correctness. . .
Three quarters of African Americans oppose political correctness.
So acute is this fear of desertion that members of a CNN panel resorted to the other N-Word (Negro) to insult Kanye West. Victor Morton reports in the Washington Times:
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Trump made very astute comments during the campaign. He laid out some plans to improve inner-city living quality and prosperity, construction and more.
He has made some good moves in office, listening to community and even giving clemency to some people given abusive sentences for their singular crime.
He will meet Kanye West today.
IMO he needs to step this up and deliver on some bigger ideas, and if he can come through he can strip that 10% or more of the Black vote. All he has to do is deliver on promises that Democrats always make and fail to deliver.
As a non-Black, so with a grain of salt, I’d love to see him make a push for school vouchers. This is a big one in the black community but not an easy one for the Federal government to force. But allocating cash to districts that open up vouchers is one thing they can do.
Perhaps more than anything, would be for him to take his tour into some of the hardest hit areas. He will take organized fire from the entrenched interests but it would be a coup if he could take the energy and turn it into more of a “love fest” Go to Gary Indiana and invite his white supporters to show up as well and show the love. He can make an effort to heal the divisions while also explaining how politics works - he told them “what do you have to lose” in 2016. In 2018 and 2020 he needs to show them what they have to gain. They lose because they are supporting the party out of power. If they can cross over just a bit they will have a real voice.
15%-20% of blacks moving to the GOP would punch way above their weight they would have enormous political power. They are simply not being told why and how it works to their advantage to put their votes in play.
Yes, if you see 90+ turnout, you can pretty much guarantee voter fraud.
My how things have changed, so Kanye is now the “House Negro”? Like Herman Cain, Larry Elder, Alan Keyes, JC Watt, Deneen Borelli, etc., another black guy who escaped from the Democrat plantation...
I see what you did there...
That percentage does not refer to the portion of all blacks voting for the democrats. Rather it refers to percentage of those blacks who actually voted and cast their ballots for the donkeys, which usually hovers around 90%. Hillary lost in part because she only got 88% of the black vote. Obama carried 93%.
I think he meant to say “90% of their votes”. They would gain so much power political power if they put their votes in play. As much as I hate the racial politics, think of the Jewish vote. The other James Baker said “F the Jews they don’t vote for us anyway” and not saying it is the only reason but GHWB lost re-election shortly after.
Hillary in New York Senate race made all kinds of deals with some Hassidic sects - even though she had the seat pretty locked up (kind of shows where she screwed up in 2016, she had hubris, she did not work the communities). One community voted something like 99% for her. It all adds up.
You’re right.
Calling him the “House N” is so wrong on so many levels. Rude, racist, demeaning and plain dehumanizing. The man is entitled to his political beliefs.
Trump is really trolling those sonsabiches in the Dem party big time. They fall right into his traps. He says “I’m meaning with Kanye” and right away they resort to their racist knee jerk bullcrap.
There was a time I had some respect from Democrats. I was raised in a home and family that is almost completely Dem. And many of the classic Liberal and even some of their liberal ideas were worthy of consideration. There are problems in the justice system (which I would be remiss to say is almost entirely the fault of Democrats who run the big cities and their bad policies from policing to justice community development to education).
Credit to Trump for giving these Dem fools the rope to show their true color... black, yes, black in the hearts and souls. It will take major courage for any righteous Democrats to step back and speak out about the insanity they foster.
I think many blacks arent going to vote in the midterms.
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I agree.
Trump also addressed Blacks and asked for their votes by saying “What have you got to lose”?
The word for “negro” in German is “Neger”. How about them apples?
‘They are monkeying things up with that comment.’
in thus case, I think that is a gibbon...
You're right - Republicans freed the slaves... and yes, white men died to make that happen. Northern white Republican men...
The black turnout in Cleveland for Obama in 2012 was 120%
I agree completely! When I was younger, the people we now call libertarians (adherents to basic principles of individual liberty) were primarily in the Democrat Party; Barry Goldwater was one of the very few - if not the only - libertarian in the Republican Party. Obviously, that’s no longer the case.
Not a problem, they made sure there were three Negroes on the Panel making the comments.
The White dude made sure he didn’t say anything while the rest of them were verbally Lynching Kanye.
It is time to recognize that PC mandates are intended to stifle discussion of real issues, resulting from problems the Left wants us to ignore.
Kanye’s black ass dont matter no more!
Negro caint read!
And the white guy get laughed at for face palming while all the blacks are being racist!
LBJ’s prediction that the black community will be voting for the rats seems to be eroding.
However he really didn’t say black community did he?
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