(August 31, 2017 at 5:22 pm)CatholicDefender Wrote: As we saw in Charlottesville, it is quite clear that rank Nazism and white supremacy are far from a thing of the past.
They always have existed and have been lurking on Stormfront.com and other such places.
Now however they are out in the open and apparently mad as Hell.
Could their new presence lead to some change in the Republican party? Despite it's appeals saying it is for Hispanics,women and people of other races, it quite clearly is the White Christian party and the default party for racists.
Not all republicans are racist necessarily, but racist feel at home in it for some reason.
Will we see a change in republican party platform to accommodate its more bigoted members? Or will there be splinter parties, parties like Golden Dawn and other neo fascist parties in Germany and eastern Europe today?
Racism does exist in both parties. I have a liberal Redneck friend who lives in Oklahoma, he has family members who vote democrat but use the "n" word. It is not impossible. But when you take a larger national sample on average the party that appeals to racists and White Nationalists leans mostly to the GOP.
But this is a long time in the making and started with Nixon's Southern Strategy. prior to that the GOP were actually more like democrats socially and democrats appealed to racists back then. The parties basically flipped on social issues since then.
The GOP will never gain any big chunk of the minority vote the way they run campaigns. Cuban migrants in Miami are really their only go to minority considering the Cubans who flee hate Cuban communism. Which to me is stupid because they fail to see that liberals are not calling for an economic Cuba here. That is simply cold war crap they fall for.
My liberal Redneck friend however has made some points about where liberals fail to expand their map outside cities and suburbs, and we do fail at that. Liberals don't do a good enough job appealing to more rural states.
45 won not the popular votes, but won by motivating just enough of his far right bigoted base, along with enough rust belt voters in swing states, who may not be bigots themselves but were tired of the status quo.
GOP are masters at getting their voters to vote against their own economic interests, social issues and cold war slurs are how they win. If they were forced to only talk about wallet issues in adds and campaigns or debates, they would lose. Liberals simply need a way to organize better and stop allowing the GOP to control the narrative.
