Posted on 11/16/2014 5:43:01 AM PST by Kaslin
For decades, the black vote in the United States almost uniformly has gone to Democrats.
How’s that working out? Black unemployment is twice the national average, poverty rates are higher than before Democrats offered “help,” and the education system fails a disproportionate number of black children. That’s what 50-plus years of blind voting loyalty to Democrats has earned. And, thanks to those same Democrats and the nation’s first black president, it’s about to get a lot worse.
President Obama is set to legalize upwards of 5 million illegal aliens, with the dream of granting amnesty and citizenship to 6 million to 25 million more, based on estimates and chain migration. These aren’t Ph.D.s with seed capital ready to start tech companies; they’re low- and no-skilled workers with limited English skills ready to take any job available, especially entry-level jobs.
After decades of embracing Democrats on a national and local level, the black community is disproportionately poor and, therefore, a higher percentage of the Americans likely to be competing for those entry-level jobs.
Just six years ago, this extra thumb in the eye to a loyal Democratic voting base would have been unthinkable, but Hispanics are the new dominant minority in American politics. In the future, the black vote is going to be less and less necessary to Democrats, which means they will be taken for granted even more than they have been. Loyalty in politics lasts only as long as the last election.
Democrats won’t immediately ignore black voters. It will be gradual. When loyalty is garnered so effortlessly, dismissing it out of hand is folly. But it will happen.
Democrats play identity politics – appealing to people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, income level—whatever you got works for them. If people are concerned that an “other” is out to harm them in some way, they’re extremely loyal to those who pretend to be their protector.
“Leaders” reinforce this lie because it empowers and enriches them personally. They see members of these groups as nothing more than a means to an end. Identity politics is not their genuine belief system; their agenda is. And if they have to stand on people’s necks and crush their spirit to obtain what they want, so be it.
Democrats, particularly progressive Democrats, have run every city with a large minority population, nearly uninterrupted, for generations and they’ve only declined. Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago … name any city with a large minority and/or poor population and you will find it run by progressives for the vast majority of the last 50 or more years.
With blind loyalty there’s no reason to actually address problems, so city councils in these areas have been busy banning plastic bags, raising taxes and fees, nickel-and-diming their population to death and making them more dependent on government in the name of “compassion.” It’s a snake eating its tail – progressive anti-poverty policies trap people in poverty, taxes are raised to pay for them, which drives out more businesses, which traps more people in poverty, which necessitates more anti-poverty programs.
This con is aided by the insistence that things are getting worse because of the “other.” In the case of progressive politics, the other is Republicans. Even though they have had zero power or influence in these areas, “leaders,” both political and social, swear it is so, and things will get worse if Republicans obtain power. “Benefits” will be cut. Fear is one hell of a motivator. The corrupt are re-elected, poverty worsens and blame is deflected.
That’s how you can end up with the first black president set to legalize the equivalent of the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota Alaska, Delaware, and the District of Columbia combined even though black unemployment is more than 11 percent. No one thinks a competitive job market, particularly in low-skilled labor, will thrive if only it had more people competing for the limited number of jobs available. Big business wants this because if the prospective employee pool is larger, the pressure to raise wages to attract workers is non-existent.
In other words, it harms mostly poor and minority Americans and helps the wealthy – the exact opposite of what the Democratic Party professes to be about. And what political price will Democrats pay for this blatant backhand across the faces of those they claim to champion? None
In 2012, there were 17.8 million black voters and only 11.1 million Hispanic voters. If 5 million Hispanics are added to the population and eventually gain citizenship that, coupled with population growth, will mean Hispanic voters will outnumber black voters within 20 years if not sooner.
Democrats are attempting to position themselves to be the protector and champion of Hispanics, which means black voters become less valuable to the party. Although that will be good for the black community because it will remove the government weight on its shoulders, it will mean that all that loyalty was for nothing.
Considering what that loyalty has wrought on the black community, nothing is better than the “something” they’ve been getting.
I was a kid later than you. I lived all over this country. The kids I knew worked their butts off. Daddy could not put them through college and pay for their cars and dates and they were EXPECTED to work. It may be a class thing.
HOA’s are evil
In this state no one can buy a house without knowing there are HOA covenants to deal with... if there are such covenants. Buying a house where there is an HOA is a choice.
Every homebuyer should be able to choose if they want to be part of the HOA or not, no matter what the previous owner decided.
BUt yeah... the guy who buys a 700k house in our neighborhood and thinks he's gonna park two junk cars and a boat in the driveway for an extended period of time has probably made a mistake.
So what if a homeowner doesn’t want to pay for the lawn guy, he wants to do his own lawn or pay his cousin to do it instead? Does he have the choice?
Absolutely... I mow my own yard. The HOA pays for all of the common areas (like around the little lakes, the entrances, etc to be mowed) The HOA fees pay for all of flowers, and the trees at all of the entrances to be cared for. That sort of stuff. The HOA does not pay for any individuals yard maintenance.
BULLHOCKEY!
lol
You really think if we deport all of the illegals (I’M OPPOSED TO AMNESTY)... but you really think if we deport all of the illegals that the african american subculture is going to go out and do all of those jobs? I just don’t believe that. Sorry.
With millions of people being brought in-The help programs available are going to be stretched to the breaking point. This will end up leaving nothing for anyone (see Greece) . Then again, that is the plan isn't it?
As an Illustration, I work in Arborculture. We have a lot of Hispanics (mostly Legal, hard to get a CDL if you are Illegal), and you are more likely to see Whites on the crew than Blacks.
They know that block is good for 9 votes in 10 no matter what. Why spend political capital on such a reliably lame voting block?
When I say Americans I’m not counting drug dealers
I’m just frustrated. : )
My son who just graduated is starting a new job next week
He’ll be making 31K a year
He knows people though
I’m very proud of him
I took over his yardwork job that he was doing for the people next door to my mom. It’s only eighty bucks a month but I’ll be earning something at least!
I’m a 50 yo female BTW
Indeed. I'll be 64 in less than 2 weeks.
If memory serves something like 80% of blacks voted for Hubert Humphrey over Richard Nixon. The ratio has improved for Democrats since then.
To me that was fascinating in those days of yore since the Democrat Party, in those days of yore, was the Party that embraced the Ku Klux Klan and supplied Klansmen. Heck, the most recent Klansman Senator to check out was a Democrat.
A Democrat invented the Great Society, and you could not find a more reliable program to subjugate blacks than the Great Society.
Every chance they get Democrats work overtime to saw off the rungs of the ladder that would allow blacks to climb onto the prosperity tier.
Still, blacks stampede to vote for Democrats to this day. Some pundits even like to pay lip service to the drivel that blacks have finally seen the light...as a group, that is. I'll believe it when reliable exit polling says so.
In the meantime, Democrats won't be divorcing them, but they won't do anything to help blacks or encourage blacks to help themselves. Well, that isn't exactly right. Their actions encourage blacks to help themselves. Democrat speeches, on the other hand, say blacks are fools if they try.
IDK why they vote dem OR become muslim
SMH
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