The narrative of racialized voting tells Republicans that their only hope for the future is to deport or disenfranchise millions of POC.
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The narrative isn't completely false - the GOP gets almost no black votes, for example - but it isn't completely true either.
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The narrative of racialized voting, combined with rough demographic parity between whites and POC, is driving America insane.
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Part of the process of Americans learning to live together in harmony is the realization that voting isn't only driven by race. (end)
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I think has to do in large part with the hypervisibility of black folks, who are of course the most polarized group in terms of party.
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But you know, we also have one party that is generally welcoming to diversity and one party that is... not.
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Yup. If the GOP managed to change that, American politics would be much different. In the long term, probably better...
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In the short run, could be worse, if a slight reduction in GOP racism won over just enough POC to enable the remaining racists...
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And socialists won't like it, bc exodus of POC from Democratic Party pretty much guarantees both parties drifting to economic center.
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Yep. I don't think socialists realize how much of their current mini-moment is a second-order side effect of GOP racism.
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I keep trying to tell people that the short-term future of American socialism hinges on winning over black voters esp in the South, but...
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