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In reply to the discussion: Democrats need to address the "Working Class" problem and get over the "Isms" [View all]bigtree
(90,141 posts)...you said they're irrelevant, which is offensive as it is wrong.
All voting groups in the party were lacking in support in this election, in the same proportion that black voters were lacking in attendance.
Black voters overwhelmingly supported Kamala Harris, and have a disproportionate number in their communities to white voters who identify as 'working class.' So I don't know how you succeed in achieving any positive election result for Democrats by deeming them irrelevant.
All of this boasting about republican potential while demeaning the import of black voters is making my skin crawl.
Black voters chose Biden by almost 10% more than showed for Kamala Harris in this race, but she still pulled in a proportionate number of the smaller number of Dem voters showing up in this race, overall.
I'd suspect you'd find most of those black voters are like me, who have never had the luxury of opting out of a binary choice between republicans' racist party and our diverse one.
There's one party representing working class voters, and another working against those interests. One party supporting minority Americans and the other working and advocating against us.
Pretending this is something other than racism and hatred of other Americans isn't something you'll find black voters like me representing as some imperative to discover some other reason why.
I personally find all of the handwringing over what is actually bunch of white working class Trump supporters, nothing short of a surrender to pure bullshit from Trumpers looking to use phony issues and excuses to cover for their racism and antipathies to Americans who don't look like and think like them.
Just because republicans claim Democrats don't support the working class, or claim the president controls the price of eggs, doesn't mean we need to cater to that mental illness and gaslighting.