re: #205 dangerman

imo the exit polling from alabama shows us who and what the future of the democratic party can be

This is something that wingnuts don’t grasp. Their whole understanding of the Democratic Party and blacks is colored (haha) by their racism. They see it as the Democratic Party is a white party, like theirs, that has fooled black people into voting for us. But that’s not it. Black people don’t just VOTE FOR Democrats. They ARE Democrats. They are us, we are them. They’re as solidly part of the party as southern whites are solidly part of the GOP - maybe even more so.

Their understanding of this is rooted in the racist view that blacks are too stupid to know what’s in their own interest. And that blacks only believe there’s discrimination because Democrats told them so.

And the amazing thing is, wingnuts cannot understand how deeply racist that is.

Conversely, I know that a lot of us tend to think of poorer white peopleas ‘voting against their own interest’ in voting for Republicans. But really, they’re voting for white privilege, for white supremacy, perhaps not fully understanding and accepting that this is what they’re doing. They’re not ‘voting against their own interest’, they just have a different view of what that interest is.