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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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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and like... it's true! A lot changed socially whereas economically Obama's primary contribution was to patch up the existing bad system, add a few guardrails + the CFPB and shovel the people's money into the beast til it could run on its own again.
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But ultimately I see that as a quirk of history that was inevitable for the first black president, who would not have been permitted to have been a real revolutionary (such a person might actually work for true racial justice, which is intolerable to most white voters).
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