An interesting fact: 24 Senators, all but 1 Democratic, voted against Bill Clinton's welfare reform act. 4 Senators, two R, two D, voted against the Crime Bill.
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The reality is that white populists are the swing voters that have decided every election probably since Eisenhower. It is possible that in the depths of the financial crisis, these white populists were finally ready to trust the government again to help.
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But would they have been ready to accept that help from a government led by a black man? Or a white woman? Given that the first manifestation of white 'populist' anger was the small government "constitutional conservative" tea party, one suspects not.
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I just wish folks would have a little more patience for those of us who are always bringing up race because at the end of the day, no matter how the Obama era felt, we are always in greater danger of getting left behind by a democratic government because we're a minority.
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I really think that the way that the Obama era felt (to whites?) like a social revolution and an economic retrenchment has blinded a lot of us to the fundamental structure of a democracy, and accordingly how fragile minority political power is.
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That's why it is guarded so jealously. That also has something to do with why it feels elitist: minority groups probably do have to rely on the support of the elite in a way a majoritarian movement does not.
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tl;dr: even when poor white people lose in American politics, somebody's fighting for them. Whereas minorities (let alone queer people)... whether or not anybody gives a fuck about us is much more dicey.
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