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In reply to the discussion: Carville was right. Here's why it doesn't matter [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Shhh, Black and Brown people. We need those white working class voters to win the next election and they don't really like you, so we need you to be quiet and stay out of sight in order not to drive them away... But only until we win then we'll deal with your issues.
Okay... Cool... We won the election. But now we need to build up our numbers and to do that we need those white working-class voters. They still don't like you, so we need you to be very very quiet and stay out of sight in order not to drive them away. Just until the next election. Then you can come back out and we'll deal with your issues
But here's the thing - there's always a next election and always too many people worried about these backward thinking white voters and black and brown voters are always being told just sit tight until we get around the next corner.
I call BS on that. It's long past time we told those white people who have problems with the folks who are becoming a majority of the party and, let's not forget, continually and without complaint and in the face of unbelievable obstacles consistently drag Democrats over finish line while those white voters are whining about how they're not heard.
So, no - that's not the point