re: #405 ObserverArt

You know, it did not hit me until I read both of your comments.

I may be way out to lunch in thinking this, but did many white (Democrats and Independents) abandon voting for the Democratic candidate this election because there was too much mention of Blacks and Latinos/Hispanics and Muslims by the party and Clinton?

Did the white voters go with Trump for the fact that he too promised jobs but he also offered to take care of the problem people that maybe, just maybe a bunch of whites agreed with but were too scared to admit it before they actually voted.

Maybe it is a soft form of racism…they are more concerned about their own situations to spend time worrying about anyone else. Every person for themselves.

It scares me to even think it could occur, but with the emphasis on “race” and “illegals” I wonder if even some Democrats and people that may have voted Clinton ran away from the party thinking the party no longer really represents them ‘enough.’

I think the point Smith and I are trying to make is that the party has no problems with Hispanic and Black working class voters supporting it and yet Senator Sanders wants to act like we have a working class problem. I mean I get his concerns. Honestly, it does sadden me that the demographic that my family was in when they embraced the Democratic party first as immigrants to this country has shifted to the GOP but unlike Senator Sanders, I can see that a big part of that shift is due to that demographics’ own prejudices. I am not saying all of them are racist or none of their concerns are economic but the fact is we do talk about these issues and so many of these voters would rather hear the empty rhetoric Trump showed them.