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Hortensis

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44. Everyone understands what you're doing, Mosby.

Sat Oct 21, 2017, 03:18 AM

Oct 2017

No one i know or have read thinks it was apathy. Imo, it was too much complacency, and perhaps in some cases a share of what motivated those white former Democrats to betrayal.

After all, black voters span the ideological spectrum. Some thought they could afford to vote or not as they really wished, as they should be able to. They mostly believed like everyone else that the Democrats would win, we'd take the Senate at very least and build on what had been achieved.

So they failed to protect their gains in the Obama era, believing others would do it. And they did t, above all, because we all badly, badly underestimated just how dangerous losing to what today's Republican Party has become could be.

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Just Be Honest And Say You Want Black People To Suffer In Silence [View all] MrScorpio Sep 2017 OP

I thought it was and is pretty obvious that he is a racist BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #1

!!! Alice11111 Sep 2017 #3

He was the chief Birther. How could folks not grasp how racist he is from that fact alone? emulatorloo Sep 2017 #4

+1. A Real BIC politicasista Sep 2017 #31

Fuck no. I do not want black people, or any minority, or Alice11111 Sep 2017 #2

I share this view. JNelson6563 Sep 2017 #5

!!! Alice11111 Sep 2017 #13

90 million non voters determined the election Mosby Sep 2017 #6

That's a true thing. stewrat Sep 2017 #8

trump won MI, WI and PA by a combined Mosby Sep 2017 #9

so heaven05 Sep 2017 #17

And the huge numbers of white people that actually voted for trump JI7 Sep 2017 #22

And the huge number of liberal whites who felt they had the luxury of a non-voting protest... marble falls Nov 2017 #54

Ditto heaven05 - did I read your response correctly? JustAnotherGen Sep 2017 #18

im not blaming minorities Mosby Sep 2017 #19

nah heaven05 Sep 2017 #25

Yeah. Mosby Sep 2017 #29

I prefer to blame those infamous "white working class men" who Hortensis Oct 2017 #42

HRC did lose a lot of middle, low income obama voters to trump Mosby Oct 2017 #43

Everyone understands what you're doing, Mosby. Hortensis Oct 2017 #44

voter apathy is just a term Mosby Oct 2017 #45

Bye. Hortensis Oct 2017 #46

do these posters have an "agenda"? Mosby Nov 2017 #48

I'll answer your question, no agenda here steve2470 Nov 2017 #49

yep, I think so heaven05 Sep 2017 #24

Let's be REALLY honest radical noodle Sep 2017 #26

I worked September and October 2016 in PA. lapucelle Oct 2017 #41

Cut the bullshit repug talking point,as if dirty, repug vote suppression never targeted black voters brush Nov 2017 #55

Many more of whom were not. LanternWaste Sep 2017 #35

im not pushing a narrative Mosby Sep 2017 #36

Odd that... because in your initial pos LanternWaste Oct 2017 #38

Voter turnout in 2016 among Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and other non-whites.... George II Oct 2017 #39

Voter suppression mcar Oct 2017 #40

The media can kiss my ass. 47of74 Sep 2017 #7

Racism and Bigotry got Trump Elected thbobby Sep 2017 #10

it's the talk radio - see below certainot Sep 2017 #12

I am a 'white' second generation American sprinkleeninow Sep 2017 #28

the only reason he got close to the white house was liberal/left/sane american ignorance of certainot Sep 2017 #11

Haters gonna hate thbobby Sep 2017 #14

i think ignoring the hate and ignorance from those stations makes it more 'acceptable' certainot Sep 2017 #21

You are correct thbobby Sep 2017 #23

its hard for them to feel confronted if it's ok for more than 88 universities and a lot of pro certainot Sep 2017 #30

but they had no problem speaking out against Kaepernick for not standing during the anthem JI7 Sep 2017 #32

and trump got to the white house on the backs of certainot Sep 2017 #33

I would say it was because of millions white racists JI7 Sep 2017 #34

KQQQ Pullman, WA is one of those. We call it KKKQ. Pullman is where Washington State U. is. brewens Nov 2017 #53

Ta-nehisi Coates is covering this same ground .... kwassa Sep 2017 #15

That's exactly how I read this article MrScorpio Sep 2017 #16

I was not convinced of this right after the election ... kwassa Sep 2017 #20

I think it could be called radical noodle Sep 2017 #27

+++ heaven05 Oct 2017 #37

Ignorance is Bliss but Ignorance is also Taught. hoping4betterdays Oct 2017 #47

Welcome to DU irisblue Nov 2017 #50

Recommended, and thank you. eom guillaumeb Nov 2017 #51

Give California an equal voice, and equal vote, in presidential elections, Sophia4 Nov 2017 #52