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So why are the Republicans incapable of crafting an inclusive essage that appeals to minorities both as candidates and voters?I don’t think I have ever called one an Uncle Tom.
Political parties don’t own a demographic and if they make that assumption it usually bites them in the elections.
On the other hand, what you call diversity became a joke this last election.
Opinion | Republicans Had One Black Woman in Congress. Now They Have None.
From proud Republican harbinger to sad Republican castaway — that’s the story of Representative Mia Love, who finally conceded her extraordinarily close House race on Monday.
It’s the story of her party, really. Of what it once realized about the future and how it slouched backward into the past. Of trading the elixir of hope for the toxin of fear.
It charts Republicans’ ugly drift under Donald Trump, who rooted for her defeat not only as the votes in Utah’s Fourth Congressional District were still being counted (“Mia Love gave me no love,” the president pouted) but with all that he said on the campaign trail and has done in the White House. Tacitly and explicitly, he has sown disdain for the likes of Love, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who, in 2014, became the first black Republican woman ever elected to either chamber of Congress.
She remains the only one. When she leaves at the end of this congressional session, there will be just two black Republican men — one in the House and one in the Senate.
And it must be because of skin color and not their views or record on things.
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As I stated earlier, I don't have the time to do the research, but I would be willing to bet that the minorities that represent the Democrat party are from predominately minority areas. Minority areas are all Democrat, so why is it so shocking that people from minority areas pick representatives of their own race?
Actually I didn’t say it is BECAUSE of skin color, I have said it is in their message. They aren’t attracting many minorities. They aren’t electing many minorities. And they just got whiter and more male.
Why?
I just explained it do you, but I guess I need to go further.
Middle-class, upper-middle-class and wealthy areas are likely Republican and also likely white. Shit holes, lower income areas, blighted areas are minority.
How do the Republicans get a minority representative from white areas when there are few minorities there? That's like saying the people in Harlem are racist because they never forward a white representative. It's a ridiculous accusation.
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Point being that race is not the reason for so few minorities in the GOP. It's the fact there are not many minorities in GOP areas. More importantly is the fact that Republicans elect people based on their positions, policies and history. Democrats elect people based on gender or skin color. This was never more evident than the election of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Dumb as a bag of rocks, but she is now in the position of power based on her race.
Is because they have nothing to offer them beyond referring to them as the "parasite class"?
Good lord..you lost Mia Love and are keft with only 2 black men in Congress. Surely that should be a wake up call that has little to do with brainwashing unless you truely believe people are just stupid.
And I will point out the Dems are in danger of making the mistakes if they arent carefull...in excluding conservative Democrats.
McCaskill Blames Senate Defeat On Democratic 'Failure' With Rural America
Why is it you on the left believe that our government should make special accommodations for certain people? What’s wrong with the Republican message of trying to do what’s good for all or most Americans?
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
John F Kennedy 1961
“Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.”
Liberal America 2018
I believe one of the reasons we are such a divided country is because everybody is looking out for themselves instead of looking out for the country overall. Looking for government to hand out goodies at the expense of others creates this dichotomy that can never be dissolved.
Government is not Santa Clause.
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Maybe your message isnt for all people. Otherwise you would have more diversity.