As a black loyal Democrat, I say SCREW the white working class who insist on voting Republican

[EffieBlack]

42. Let me break it down for you . . .

These people already know that Democrats are better for their economic interests than Republicans. They don't care because they have other interests that are more important to them - their fears, their desire to maintain the privilege and supposed superiority their race provides them. THAT's the only thing that Republicans are offering them that Democrats don't. So if Democrats want to attract them to our side, we have to compete with Republicans on that score. We have to convince them that we're not going to engage in what they - and too many Democrats - refer to as "identity politics" but what is really the politics of inclusion, which scares them to death.

And the only way to convince them of that is to make clear to them that THEIR concerns will be paramount - and those concerns are completely in conflict with the concerns of black and brown and female people in the Democratic party. That means our concerns will have to be subordinated. We will have to be quiet. Stop talking all that race stuff. Stop talking all that equality stuff. Stop "complaining." Focus only on class. Leave race out of it.

In other words, we will have to give up our seats so that the people who vote for bigots can have a nice cushy place to sit.