Posted on 12/23/2021 3:53:02 AM PST by Kaslin
In November of last year I wrote about the phenomenon Democrats have been pushing for decades – that the “less white” this country becomes, the better it is for them; that at a certain point, and soon, the Republican Party would be relegated to the fringe of society. “Demographics are destiny,” they insist. It’s a nice, neat theory that just so happens to dovetail perfectly with the racial politics the left have been playing the whole time. But a funny thing happened on the way to permanent power…
For Democrats, this argument, and the hope that it was true, hinged on one thing: the Hispanic vote. For half a century, Democrat have gotten almost 90 percent of the black vote. It’s become a joke in political circles, that Republicans don’t even bother to try and neither do Democrats. And by that I mean Republicans don’t try to make a dent in the black vote while Democrats don’t bother to try to fulfill any of the promises they’ve made to black voters because where are they going to go?
Democrats own the black vote, and everyone knows it. No matter how horrible Democrat leadership in majority black cities across the country, there is zero concern from those failed elected officials that their indifference or neglect will lead to an electoral loss. Hell, crack smokers and people overseeing a killing field get reelected if they’re Democrats, why would anything short of those be of a concern? They aren’t.
The model was what Democrats planned for the Hispanic vote – convince Hispanics the alternative is somehow worse, sit back and roll to victory. So how did Joe Biden end up being less popular than a painful inner ear infection with Hispanic voters? The answer is pretty easy, but I’m going to make you wait a little bit for it.
First, where did I come up with the idea that Democrats are in trouble with the Hispanic vote?
The latest NPR/PBS, Marist poll, not exactly a bastion of centrism, let alone conservatism, contains numbers that are scaring the delusions of Hispanic vote dominance out of even the most overpaid progressive consultant.
In addition to showing Biden having an embarrassing 41 percent approval rating, with Hispanic voters that number is significantly lower.
Only 33 percent of Hispanics view Joe Biden’s performance as President favorably, while fully 65 percent actively disapprove (2 percent were off having a sandwich somewhere). That is embarrassing.
The poll already had bad news for Democrats, with independent voters disapproving of Biden by a gigantic margin: 29 – 66 percent. But the Hispanic numbers are what Democrats are really worried about.
Independent voters are much easier to sway than locked in ethnic voting blocs. Independents don’t really believe in much, at least not enough to solidify their vote for any length of time. Ethnic voters generally have been cultivated by the left to identify with people who look like them moreso than anything else. So why does it not seem to be working for Democrats with Hispanic voters?
Have you noticed the flood of illegal aliens across the southern border? I know you have, everyone has. So have Hispanic Americans, decedents of people who’ve made that journey long ago. Whether they have just arrived or are first or second-generation Americans, they all know what the people flooding the border are fleeing.
There is no one who’d make the 3,000 mile walk from Venezuela to the United States, for example, who comes in singing the praises of socialism or would support anyone advocating a political philosophy that destroyed their ancestral homeland. The same can be said for pretty much all countries south of the Rio Grande, to one degree or another. Why would anyone coming from there, or who heard the stories of their parents or grandparents who came here, ever support what their families fled? The truth is they wouldn’t. Those numbers in that Marist poll show as much.
Hispanics know the horrors of socialism, likely know someone who’d suffered under it. No matter how you package, what face you put out front and how you dress it up, what Democrats are pushing is still socialism. That might fly with wealthy white suburbanite women with too much time on their hands, academics, and the activist class – in other words, people whose lives wouldn’t be disrupted by the change – but the people who’d see their futures severely limited by destructive liberal policies are not interested in them.
Demographics are not destiny, and that’s really all Democrats have right now. That bodes well for Republicans next year, unless they completely screw up the campaign which, given we’re dealing with Republicans, is entirely possible.
can’t recall seeing this on FR, but it is all over FakeNewsMSM, including BBC, WaPo, WSJ, etc.
23 Dec: Yahoo: U.S. Life Expectancy Dropped Nearly 2 Years in 2020
by Tara Law
New mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics finds that life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years in 2020 compared to 2019, and more than 528,800 more U.S. residents died in 2020 than in 2019. It is the largest single-year increase in annual mortality since 1933, when data for the entire country first became available.
COVID-19 is the primary reason for this shift. The virus was the cause of 10.4% of all deaths last year and became the third-most common cause of death in the country...
Death rates rose from various causes, including heart disease (up 4.1%), strokes (up 4.9%) and Alzheimer’s disease (up 8.7%) as COVID-19 stretched the entire health care system to its limit. Mark Hayward, a demographer and a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, says that increases in these particular diseases is striking. “They’re the kinds of deaths that are likely to occur because you can’t access hospitals or you can’t access care,” he says...
Men’s life expectancy fell by 2.1 years, to age 74.2, and dropped 1.5 years to age 79.9 for women...
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/u-life-expectancy-dropped-nearly-162044895.html
I’ve thought for a while that a false assumption is being made about just who most of the border-crossers are.
They are NOT coming to Democrats — They’rer coming to America for the things they perceive it is. Opportunity.
Yes, there are too many crooks and criminals, but there are (probably) more decent people fleeing failed governments, iron-grip corruption, and rampant socialism
When they cross over, and blend into the countryside, they will meet up with those Hispanics already here. There will be some resentment on the part of those already here who DID come in via the rules. Some attitude adjustments may occur as a result.
Many Hispanics are traditional Catholics. Aside from some American high-profile “Politically Fashionable Democrats,” Catholicism is NOT basically a Liberal-Socialist philosophy. It trends towards classic religious (dare I say “conservative?”) personal and family values.
I think — and hope — Democrats have blinded themselves by their unicorn rainbow illusions of who the border crossers are.
I think if I lived in one of those S-hole countries, I would be among the river swimmers, looking for a better life for me and my family.
Democrats may have badly miscalculated.
I am catholic and I am a conservative. I have never voted for a democrat, except one time , when a school friend of our daughter was in the same class from the first grade on to the sixth grade on ran for our ward. He was the best council member and I don’t regret having voted for him. He died several years ago of brain cancer.
It is going to be hilarious in the coming years if the Hispanic vote (including illegals) trends more and more Republican and conservative.
I turned 80 in August, other than that I am handicapped because of a degenerative disc disease, and a degenerative hip-joint disease which forces me to use a cane to walk (I do have a walker, but hate to use it because both of my hands are required to use it, I am in good health for my age.
It sure will be and that serves the rats right.
Just because Hispanics don’t like Biden, does not automatically translate to them becoming GOP voters. Many people have a disconnect in reasoning. “This Democrat is bad, but the NEXT Democrat will save us”.
It is the same way with people who believe in socialism. It has failed every time it has been tried, yet many people still believe it will work the next time.
Insanity. I don’t see Hispanics flocking to the GOP any time soon.
My job includes an opportunity to observe students in many high schools, and one thing is clear in my mind: Young Hispanics despise young blacks. I mean they really hate them.
They won't talk to them, won't eat with them, won't listen to to hip/hop rap music, don't want to sit beside them in class, and they don't mind letting young blacks know exactly how they feel.
I can see where this mostly "raised in America" generation of Hispanics are definitely NOT going to vote with the "Black Party."
The only thing the left has learned is how to lie cheat and steal.
Apparently contrary to how most of us were raised, privileged and supremacists, cheaters DO prosper.
In fact,they rarely,if ever,get punished.
Which encourages them to commit even greater crimes.
Even if they are philosophically more Republican/conservative.
Takes a lot to admit to yourself you are off the track.
Uh-huh! Texting while walking. You're busted. {;^)
COVID-19 is the primary reason for this shift. The virus was the cause of 10.4% of >>> That’s what happens when your governor (Wolf, Newsome, McMurphy, cuomo, et al) murder a bunch of old folks.
Yeah right (Not) I used to walk very fast when I was younger, but not anymore though. I was never able to run fast. One of my brother’s won first place in a school sports tournament of my home town. I was very proud of him
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