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[Jarqui]

23. In my lifetime, the Dems have always been more sympathetic to

the cause of racial inequality, etc. Always. The Kennedys and MLK were a big deal for me in the 60s .. and key to getting me to embrace their platform or concepts for life. For a long time, I tried to be open as an independent - thinking that was the best way to be but when push came to shove, the Dems were always home - every time.

Kennedys-Johnson-MLK got the civil rights done and the GOP have seemed against it or racist ever since to me. So I think it's fair to pin more blame on them as they have blocked efforts by the Dems to improve the situation.

Fifty years ago, one might have said to themselves like I did "ok now, we've got it. We understand all these things that were wrong in treatment of minorities - particularly blacks. Now, we can move on with these new rights and understanding and everything will be ok".

When that didn't happen, I thought, "maybe it's a generation thing and older folks just can't give it up" .. but there has been a lot of generations come and go over those 50 years and we still have a nasty problem. So that's not it entirely either.

I don't care too much about the past - it's history. It's what we can do now to affect lives going forward that has value. "We" - not just the GOP - have to solve that problem.

That might be a by-product of what Trump is doing to the GOP right now. If the Dems can take back the Senate & House in a landslide, Dem judges will be in place and some legislation will get done.

As the demographics shift, this problem is going to get diluted so there is some relief in sight. The GOP cannot continue to exist on the platform they have.