2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Which group of reliable democrats are YOU willing to lose to get White Men to vote Democratic? [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Why is it so difficult for you to understand this? When black and brown voters are jumping up and down saying, "NO NO NO!!! We don't want them in our party because the only way to get them to join the party is to kick us to the curb because WE'RE THE REASON THEY DON'T VOTE DEMOCRATIC!""
We know what we're talking about. We've lived it and continue to live it every day. But you ignore us and tell us to "stop being so divisive" and insist that you're going to walk away from us, go to the other side, talk bigots into joining our party, and then bring them back into our party and force us to jockey with them for our place at the table we built and set.
You don't listen to us. You whitesplain to us. You tell us we don't know what we're talking about. And you demand that we make room for people who not only don't care about us but have demonstrated that they are perfectly fine stepping all over us. Do you really think that, if you draw them into the Democratic Party, they will happily share power with US? You think the people who voted for DONALD TRUMP will willingly join forces with the very people he demonized to get their vote?
So please, just stop with that foolishness. We don't go for it.