[REASON] Woke Excess Causes Minority Voters To Flee the Democratic Party

There is a lot of truth to this. The woke culture is taking it off the ledge. Defund the police was a slogan that helped Trump.

Our own worst enemies sometimes.

 

recent actions by GOP lawmakers, post the firing of the inept trust-fund baby from Queens, say the opposite is true.

that's why GOP lawmakers have stepped up their voter suppressions efforts, in Ga, Pa, Az, Mi, etc.

 

OP, its communism, not socialism that scared the sh*t out of some Asian and Cubans. You might want to give two thoughts about why it's about communism for these communities.

 

This.

 

Spurred By The Capitol Riot, Thousands Of Registered Republicans Drop Out Of GOP

"I was completely shocked and ashamed. That's not how I think of the Republicans — who we were, and who we are," said Lyle Darrah of the riot at the Capitol. Darrah recently changed his party registration from Republican to Democrat.​

 

There isn't a single progressive politician in the US that is elected from the Democrat party that is socialist.

That is another issue with discourse in this country. Labels. Wanting public healthcare isn't socialist. Socialist is labor ownership of capital. Communsim is state ownership of capital and social democracy is a mixed free market economy that includes government programs that incentivizes the well being of the common citizen. No one is stating that the government should own Ford Motor Company.

 

Not socialist, sure, but the Democrats are awful at messaging, awful, and when you allow the other side to grab the narrative, even though the lies are obvious, well......."defund the police" was pretty stupid. Yeah, take away the police department budget. Oh, wait! Assaults, murders, robberies, hell, even traffic control...I guess we need the cops.

 

You also ha f to understand that conservative America has been brainwashed to label any finding of government programs that disproportionately help the middle class and poor as socialist. Blame their bubbles media more than the wording of democrats.

The GOP have effectly turned "public healthcare" into "that's Stalinism". And they did it with or without democrat incompetence. They did it through creating dopimine addicted media culture wars content on their am waves and cable news networks.

 

Do you know how this article was written by an out of touch white male? It doesn't differentiate between minorities at all.... it just uses the term "minorities"..... there are more differences within minority groups than there are between whites and any selected minority group.

The views of black voters vary depending on their age, income, gender and where they live.... just like every other group. There are even more variables within the "Latino" community. The article really isn't very well written.

While I do believe that extremist liberals can go to far with "cancel culture", I also believe that in general the Democratic party is more receptive to most minority groups. The Democrats do need to improve their touch with Asian Americans (again a diverse and large group) and the Democrats need to focus more on economic strategies.

The reality is that when you cater to large groups of minority voters, you are ruffle the feathers of some within other minority groups that are also under your tent. It is a very hard line to walk though, ask Trump who attempted to keep main stream Republican support and also get support from bigots, conspiracy theory groups and other minority voter groups.

The Democratic party has a fracture right now between the "Clinton/Obama" Democrats and the progressive and more radical wing of the party. At some point there will be a show down between those groups and one will win. I suspect the progressives will.

Also, as far as "Latinos" are concerned, they have drifted right before, and the longer there is a well established Latino community over the years, the more you will see vote Republican, it is how it works.

 

What has happened is that the pandemic has shown that at certain times there needs to be a strong federal government response, as there has been historically. It has been so long since we had one that the country as a whole is suffering. It can be infrastructure, prison reform, welfare reform, housing reform. These are all issues that need to be addressed at the federal level and in the past... when important issues have emerged, strong federal government advocates like Lincoln, both Roosevelt's have emerged.

 

true that

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/24/479192873


Asian Americans---self-reliant, hard working, strong on family value, value education and fiscally conservative---would seem to be a natural for the GOP party.

When Reagan was President, w the immigration amnesty laws in effect, a majority of Asian Americans voted for GOP candidates. In 1992, less than 1/3 of Asian-Americans voted for the Democratic Presidential candidate, Bil Clinton.

in terms of party identification, since 1992, no other group has shifted so dramatically to vote against the GOP. According to a recent study by UC Riverside, exclusionary / xenophobic / anti-immigrant rhetoric by GOP candidates seems to be driving this political shift.

More than 40 % of Asian-American voters surveyed said they would oppose a candidate — whom they otherwise agreed with on most issues —if he/she had anti-immigrant views.

This was the reason that, in 2012, > 70% of the Asian-American voted to reject the anti-immigrant Presidential candidate, Romney. even worst for Trump in 2016/2020.

One can infer that, for the most part, AA voters are more issues oriented,
they're too savvy/pragmatic to be duped by the current GOP that welcomes anti-immigrants like the QAnon lady and cancels the traditional conservative Liz Cheney​

 

It was so idiotic that they let some factions within the party hijack the message that was initially "Reform the Police."

 

I don't know anyone that claims that everyone that votes for or supports Trump is a terrible racist. What I have heard is people asking how someone can support Trump when he is a bigot and supported by white nationalists and white supremacists. Those are fair questions I believe. At the end of the day, people that support Donald Trump know that he is supported by bigots, conspiracy theory extremists and the such.

As for the author, yes, he is an out of touch white male that lives with his "wife Carrie and their two Yorkie terriers Oliver and Caesar in Washington D.C." .... I say that as a white male, it is obvious that he either does not understand the demographics or has chosen to ignore them.... take your pick.



I didn't even know the author, but I had a really good idea what to expect based on the complete lack of depth and understanding of the topic. I suspected he was a libertarian (or claims he is one).



He uses all the buzz words to grift and sell books and garner attention.



When he isn't trying to grift..... he finds time to post many pictures of himself



Having said all of that.... I have read some of what he has written, while I do not agree with all of it.... some of it is well done, and well reasoned and well researched. It is clear that he is fluent on some topics. Perhaps he just went outside his lane on the article you posted.

 

The Title really should be "Right Wing Propaganda Has Been Successful at Convincing Conservative Latinos that Democrats are a Caricature of Woke Cancel Culture That They Really Aren't"

One of the biggest contributors actually is the influx of right wing investment in Spanish language radio in the south especially in Florida. This is one of the most important unreported stories of the 2020 election. The right is doubling down on radio while the left is really moving away from the medium, and that really leaves wide open the reach that Spanish speaking AM radio has.

When you watch FoxNews, Right Wing Facebook viral messages, or any right wing propaganda network, the consistency in the messaging is astounding. It's ALL about doubling down on culture wars. Everything is about Cancel Culture, and painting a caricature of how Republicans want their consumers to view Democrats as Cancel Culture Warriors... when in reality... Nobody on the left gives a rats ass about Mr. Potato Head... but every Right Wing Consumer believes you do regardless if that's the truth or not.

Propaganda and continual lies ultimately work.

 

Thanks for this important warning Os -- I contacted moderate democrat headquarters and was shocked to hear them say that they were unaware of this critical problem. I told them in no uncertain terms that it is time for woke culture to take a nap.

 

He did, he just didn't do much with it.

He did write a very thoughtful and interesting piece on toxic male masculinity though.