Blexit Campaign - Black Exit from the US Democratic Party

[Mister Agenda]

It's hard to take you seriously when you describe Democrats asking for your vote as commanding you as slaves to vote for them. No one is making you vote for them.

I was speaking of the expectation that black voters should show up for them by racist decree and not demand anything in exchange for their loyalty.

Don't care if you take me seriously or not, tbh. My days of taking one for that fucking clown team are over. 
We (black people) would be better served if more of us take our leave of the Democratic Party, so that's what I encourage. It's not nearly as hard as one would think. Plenty of black folks are already there by the time I get to them.

It's good stuff.

The current administration is responsible for tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths due to its bungling of the pandemic response and committing an ongoing crime against humanity with its family separation policy and kids in camps; and your grievance with the Democrats is deep enough that you're okay with letting all that continue. I don't agree with that, but I went through a 20-year phase of 'a pox on both their houses' so I can't throw stones. The current shit show changed my mind and it just doesn't change yours.

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Yes, absolutely, there are problems with the democratic party.  I'll be the first to argue that.  But let's look at our alternatives:  Republicans are literally courting klansmen and neo nazis.  A "unite the right" rally involved some of the most racist pieces of trash calling themselves republican.  I have a very hard time seeing black people being able to overlook that a political party is literally welcoming klansmen.

After that, there's the green party and libertarians.  I mean, I'd like to see more third party participation in American politics, but we would have to make some serious, fundamental changes to the American political system for that to happen.  Right now, third parties are just spoilers, frequently funded by parties that are hostile to their ideology simply to weaken their opponent.  

And as much as there are problems with the democratic party, I'm going to assume that a lot of black people feel the same way I do: I'm not crazy about the democratic party and I absolutely loathe Joe Biden, but at least his political party doesn't want me dead.  When your very existence is a partisan political issue, I don't feel like I really get to choose what party to support.  I have to be a democrat because hating me is part of the republican platform.

I used to say there isn't a dime's worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans; but the Republicans have lost their damn minds.