Ana the Ist
Aggressively serene!
I don't think the RIght has let go of fear and division either.
Fear and division works....but the right doesn't want the Gaetz, Greene, Bobert and their ilk. They see it coming. They're pushing against it. The left got the squad. They don't see the problem. They are only now trying to figure it out.
I can see convincing people to go for the Libertarian right but the religious right has too much baggage with white nationalism and the opposition of reproductive rights for women. Though the religious would be against it white or black.
It does not matter what they say. They say whatever appeals to the voter. The strategy is bringing it to them. You become valuable to them...that creates leverage. Do you know what a hard sell is?
I think decriminalizing would help poor whites just as much. The people who can't afford fancy lawyers would get a huge reprieve if we forgave pot smokers. I think it's worse to be a drunk than a pothead in terms of public safety.
Listen, if you say I want this just for black people...you'll be lied to. It doesn't matter who you talk to, left or right. The Civil Rights Amendment has practically all but ensured that. Do you know how hard it is to remove an Amendment? Let alone one as popular as the one associated with civil rights. Who is going to run on that? Biden can't deny white farmers loans without being tied up in courts. They aren't going to do it. You aren't there to sell policy positions. You are there to explain leverage. If they feel like they're betraying their race....or any of the words they associat with that....you tell them to tell everyone they voted Democrat, and ask God for forgiveness for lying.
I could modify this for a few other groups if you can't see it. They have to have similar characteristics though. Evangelicals also seek broadly unpopular policy and laws and are loyal to a fault. White nationalists. Some Asian communities. I'm not saying you're the same as these communities...I'm saying the voting characteristics are similar.
I follow the logic in your post but it will always be hard to get black people to vote Republican (or I should say right-wing). Most black folks I know don't want to be affiliated with the party that has the support of white nationalists, Islamaphobes, and homophobes which seems to be the cornerstone of the religious right.
That's why this is the time. It's shaping up they will win regardless. If you had to sum up the political mood of the black community what would it be? Frustrated? Betrayal? Hopelessness? Anxiousness? Am I anywhere close to the mark?
If I were to try an influence the black vote, I would tell people to vote their conscience. I don't think either party can really do anything for black people besides decriminalizing soft drugs. That would keep a lot of people from going to prison, black or white so I'm totally on board with #4 here.
You're not thinking big picture. You're not thinking demographics. Black people aren't uniform, they don't all live in cities, they have a middle class. That's who you are targeting middle middle to lower middle. Anyone smart enough to understand what leverage is, that Biden hasn't done anything, they're literally worse off after BLM...this election will go to the right. They probably won't get enough to get anything done....but they will get enough to stonewall Biden and put him out after 1 term.
Do they want to have a word? Do they want to be in the room? Or would they rather sit on the other side of the wall with the Democrats while they try to figure it out again? Do what businesses do. Create value. You bring in votes to Republicans who barely win...they'll listen. You aren’t telling them to vote Republican the rest of their lives. You aren't promising to work with Republicans next year. That depends on them listening. You'll be telling Republicans that you'll take those votes, put them on the strongest Dem, and they'll get it done. That Republican can go back to whatever corporate desk he had before....out of the spotlight.
We're at a stalemate here. It got set into concrete after Obama's first term. It's causing extremism on both sides and creating opportunities for any group willing to ride the fence. If you think an establishment Republican would rather associate with white supremacists than a black man who asks nothing and brings him the votes first? You don't understand politics. Associating with a white supremacist may help him win once....but it's infinite ammo in the press against him. You show up out of the blue with an alternative you've already proven works?
He's done talking to the white nationalists.
These people are opportunists. They say anything because the voters don't know anything. They don't believe 90% of what they say. On both sides.
If you think I'm wrong....how hard do you think it would be for me, on this forum, a poster who both believes we should strive for a non-racist society... but rejects the political concept of colorblindness and meritocracy?
Probably not difficult, right?
Then when I ask them what colorblind is....they'll give me some goofy answer about not literally seeing someone's race.
A colorblind society based on meritocracy is a society where your race doesn't affect your treatment. Your ability does. The left isn't very smart....neither is the right.
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