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In reply to the discussion: We lost (some of) the black men, the Hispanics, the youth and the first time voters. [View all]Tommymac
(7,334 posts)Not much has changed since.
They don't think they belong here - stick it to the Libtards no matter what.
Raygun. Twice.
Bush 2. Twice.
Trump. Twice.
I ain't talking about the middle class btw. I am talking about Joe and Jane Sixpack - the working class, the lower class. Chock full of Black, Latino and White males under 50, brimming with hormones, anger stoked by Fox News, and open to hate.
Pick any local neighborhood dive bar in the Pittsburgh region and you can talk to them yourself. They are legion.
BTW, it is not just on them - it is on our Party to really do some self examination and figure out why we are not appealing to them.
FDR figured it out - maybe we need to go back and look at what the Party was then and how he did it.
Not that it will matter politically for a long time. I don't expect that there will be a free and fair election again in the US in my lifetime.
But regardless, we need to start fighting back - and information is the key.