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Our system is failing? Just think where we'd be had Bush and the GOP had another four years ... I don't blame you for not thinking about it, it's scary ... I trust you no longer pay taxes, lest you be supporting this system ... If you do, you should stop and thereby engage in an act of civil disobedience ... so, while you do the principled thing and not pay taxes, and then go to prison for tax evasion, I'll work on growing up ... Deal?

Unemployment among the black community is at 35% Record high wefare participation. You call that success? Or. Is it vonsidrred success, because more welfate tecipients means more Democrat voyers?
 
I explain it as Affirmative Action, which by lifting up millions of Blacks, had an unintended side-effect: middle and upper middle class Black, especially children of Affirmative Action parents, start thinking they're better and did it all on their own, which created a rift in the Black Community, between so called Huxtable Blacks and Ghetto Blacks. And while many Huxtable Black do remain staunchly Democrat, many have not only adopted formerly white middle class neighborhoods, but also the ignorance and bigotry that goes with feeling apart from others.

Libbos never, ever let me down. Lol!
 
Libbos never, ever let me down. Lol!

Meanwhile, how does it happen?

There's a maxim: Success has a 1000 fathers; failure is an orphan. What it speaks to is what's well understood in human psychology: attribution-error bias. In short, we tend to think our success is entirely of our own making, and thus under-attribute environment's contribution. Conversely, when dealing with failure, we blame environment and under attribute effort's (lack of) roll. For example, most businesses fail due to being ill-conceived and poorly managed. How many failed businesses attribute their failure to that cause? 1? 0? The environment is blamed: regulations that apply to all businesses, even successful ones. Employees, which all businesses hire, even successful ones. Taxes which all businesses pay, even successful ones.

Back to the children of Affirmative Action: they completed college. They got a great job. They're better than other Blacks, and do not need the help being offered the less enabled. They fail to see how it, the environmental effect, is what contributed to their own success. In fact, they might rail against it, since recognizing its positive effect would force them to accept how they too were helped.

And of course Abortion too, can have an effect on voting. And many Blacks are Christians, some of whom are Christian Conservatives/Pro Life. So no Black Person is captive of the Democrats. It's only most who are loyal to the party that supports issues they consider important.

And with the coalition of other Minorities, along with White Liberals, in national elections (President) Dems are now nearly unbeatable. Short of nominating Jeffrey Dahmer, we win in a walk, for President, due to a changing racial makeup in the voter population. Bush 43 won by very narrow margins. First time with some ballot serendipity in FL and less than Gore in the national vote total; second time with the nation frightened of terrorism, when folks rally behind our leader (Oklahoma City rescued Clinton from the Lewinsky Scandal) ... and time has marched on since then, getting even worse for the GOP, nationally. Until there's a paradigm-shift in how minorities perceive the GOP, Dems will occupy the White House unabated.

Simply the truth.
 
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Meanwhile, how does it happen?

There's a maxim: Success has a 1000 fathers; failure is an orphan. What it speaks to is what's well understood in human psychology: attribution-error bias. In short, we tend to think our success is entirely of our own making, and thus under-attribute environment's contribution. Conversely, when dealing with failure, we blame environment and under attribute effort's (lack of) roll. For example, most businesses fail due to being ill-conceived and poorly managed. How many failed businesses attribute their failure to that cause? 1? 0? The environment is blamed: regulations that apply to all businesses, even successful ones. Employees, which all businesses hire, even successful ones. Taxes which all businesses pay, even successful ones.

Back to the children of Affirmative Action: they completed college. They got a great job. They're better than other Blacks, and do not need the help being offered the less enabled. They fail to see how it, the environmental effect, is what contributed to their own success. In fact, they might rail against it, since recognizing its positive effect would force them to accept how they too were helped.

And of course Abortion too, can have an effect on voting. And many Blacks are Christians, some of whom are Christian Conservatives/Pro Life. So no Black Person is captive of the Democrats. It's only most who are loyal to the party that supports issues they consider important.

And with the coalition of other Minorities, along with White Liberals, in national elections (President) Dems are now nearly unbeatable. Short of nominating Jeffrey Dahmer, we win in a walk, for President, due to a changing racial makeup in the voter population. Bush 43 won by very narrow margins. First time with some ballot serendipity in FL and less than Gore in the national vote total; second time with the nation frightened of terrorism, when folks rally behind our leader (Oklahoma City rescued Clinton from the Lewinsky Scandal) ... and time has marched on since then, getting even worse for the GOP, nationally. Until there's a paradigm-shift in how minorities perceive the GOP, Dems will occupy the White House unabated.

Simply the truth.

Wow! You come back with even more!
 
Meanwhile, how does it happen?

There's a maxim: Success has a 1000 fathers; failure is an orphan. What it speaks to is what's well understood in human psychology: attribution-error bias. In short, we tend to think our success is entirely of our own making, and thus under-attribute environment's contribution. Conversely, when dealing with failure, we blame environment and under attribute effort's (lack of) roll. For example, most businesses fail due to being ill-conceived and poorly managed. How many failed businesses attribute their failure to that cause? 1? 0? The environment is blamed: regulations that apply to all businesses, even successful ones. Employees, which all businesses hire, even successful ones. Taxes which all businesses pay, even successful ones.

Back to the children of Affirmative Action: they completed college. They got a great job. They're better than other Blacks, and do not need the help being offered the less enabled. They fail to see how it, the environmental effect, is what contributed to their own success. In fact, they might rail against it, since recognizing its positive effect would force them to accept how they too were helped.

And of course Abortion too, can have an effect on voting. And many Blacks are Christians, some of whom are Christian Conservatives/Pro Life. So no Black Person is captive of the Democrats. It's only most who are loyal to the party that supports issues they consider important.

And with the coalition of other Minorities, along with White Liberals, in national elections (President) Dems are now nearly unbeatable. Short of nominating Jeffrey Dahmer, we win in a walk, for President, due to a changing racial makeup in the voter population. Bush 43 won by very narrow margins. First time with some ballot serendipity in FL and less than Gore in the national vote total; second time with the nation frightened of terrorism, when folks rally behind our leader (Oklahoma City rescued Clinton from the Lewinsky Scandal) ... and time has marched on since then, getting even worse for the GOP, nationally. Until there's a paradigm-shift in how minorities perceive the GOP, Dems will occupy the White House unabated.

Simply the truth.

Care to make a bet?
 
Wait a minute - you're not implying that the right wing thinks blacks and other minorities vote for Democrats because they're stupid, are you? Why that cannot be, because that would be racism of the most base kind!:lamo

I was wondering the same thing ... So I asked them ...
 
How do you explain the 10 or 25 pecent that don't vote Democrat?

if we're talking about blacks, not 25%, so let's discuss the 10-15% that don't ... I suspect some, if not many, of them are business people or people with a lot of money who don't want to pay taxes, so they vote GOP ... Others have believed the lie ... the lie perpetrated in this country for many, many years that blacks are lazy and worthless ... a form of self hate .... some because they're homophobic or are anti-choice on abortion ... there are many reasons ... don't forget, blacks are not all that different from other groups in the sense that they vote or not vote for someone for a vareity of reasons ... some voters, black and white, for example are one-issue voters (e.g. gay marriage - Dems want it, GOP does not, they'll vote GOP) ... Does this help? Apparently, Dems' policies and positions are more in line with what most blacks believe or want ... and, yes, there are some that vote on the basis of race (but so do some whites) and others because their parents and grandparents voted Dem (but that's true of whites as well) ... Why did almost 60% of whites vote for Romney? Why did only about 37-38% of whites vote for Obama? Were they being racist? Maybe they're smarter voters than blacks and recognized Romney was the best choice? What do you think?
 
Unemployment among the black community is at 35% Record high wefare participation. You call that success? Or. Is it vonsidrred success, because more welfate tecipients means more Democrat voyers?

that's awful and I wish that the President had done more on that front, but, ironically, being black has tied his hands to some degree -- interesting how racism works, huh? He has to worry about being perceived as caring only about blacks and in order to avoid that perception, he does less on that front than a white dem president might have done. But if you're suggesting that the GOP would have done better, you're going to be laughed at by most reasonable and knowledgeable people ... when the economy goes south, the people most hurt are the people on the bottom and blacks are disproportionately at the bottom, so they're hurt disproportionately ... this is sociology 101 my friend ... but we as a society, both the GOP and Dems, don't spend too much time worrying about the poor, do we? the GOP especially takes a social darwinist approach -- if they're poor, they're the less fit and deserve to be there ...
 
You're doing it for me. "Affirmative action babies"? I don't even need to say anything.

No; the children of Affirmative Action parents, and not "babies," who obviously, much like you, cannot form opinions, quite yet, on race and economic factors in American society.
 
How racist is that? Inctedible!

I'm sorry, I thought you wanted me to call you Tom. My bad. Listen, if you want to be taken seriously, then get serious ... making dumb statements like the one you made, and suggesting that Dems are more racist than Republicans, especially after all the things you've heard Republican politicians and talking heads say over the past 5-6 years, makes it hard to take you seriously ...
 
if we're talking about blacks, not 25%, so let's discuss the 10-15% that don't ... I suspect some, if not many, of them are business people or people with a lot of money who don't want to pay taxes, so they vote GOP ... Others have believed the lie ... the lie perpetrated in this country for many, many years that blacks are lazy and worthless ... a form of self hate .... some because they're homophobic or are anti-choice on abortion ... there are many reasons ... don't forget, blacks are not all that different from other groups in the sense that they vote or not vote for someone for a vareity of reasons ... some voters, black and white, for example are one-issue voters (e.g. gay marriage - Dems want it, GOP does not, they'll vote GOP) ... Does this help? Apparently, Dems' policies and positions are more in line with what most blacks believe or want ... and, yes, there are some that vote on the basis of race (but so do some whites) and others because their parents and grandparents voted Dem (but that's true of whites as well) ... Why did almost 60% of whites vote for Romney? Why did only about 37-38% of whites vote for Obama? Were they being racist? Maybe they're smarter voters than blacks and recognized Romney was the best choice? What do you think?

It's all about name calling. It's all you people have.
 
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted me to call you Tom. My bad. Listen, if you want to be taken seriously, then get serious ... making dumb statements like the one you made, and suggesting that Dems are more racist than Republicans, especially after all the things you've heard Republican politicians and talking heads say over the past 5-6 years, makes it hard to take you seriously ...

You thought i wanted to be called Uncle Tom?? How idiotic is that?
 
It's all about name calling. It's all you people have.

That's it? I gave you a well thought out answer that you can dispute if you disagree, and in response you give me this? You asked me a question, I answered it in good faith. Why didn't you respond?
 
that's awful and I wish that the President had done more on that front, but, ironically, being black has tied his hands to some degree -- interesting how racism works, huh? He has to worry about being perceived as caring only about blacks and in order to avoid that perception, he does less on that front than a white dem president might have done. But if you're suggesting that the GOP would have done better, you're going to be laughed at by most reasonable and knowledgeable people ... when the economy goes south, the people most hurt are the people on the bottom and blacks are disproportionately at the bottom, so they're hurt disproportionately ... this is sociology 101 my friend ... but we as a society, both the GOP and Dems, don't spend too much time worrying about the poor, do we? the GOP especially takes a social darwinist approach -- if they're poor, they're the less fit and deserve to be there ...

You can't destroy the economy and expect unemployment to go down.
 
You thought i wanted to be called Uncle Tom?? How idiotic is that?

I didn't call you Uncle Tom. I called you Tom. And even then in jest to show how silly your post was .... but you believe what you want to believe APDST. But remember, the reason for conversations is to consider other perspectives ...
 
That's it? I gave you a well thought out answer that you can dispute if you disagree, and in response you give me this? You asked me a question, I answered it in good faith. Why didn't you respond?

Your well thought answet was nothing more than criticising black business owners--the greedy private sector--and calling black folks homophobes.

There's nothing well thought about your post. It's nothong more than regurgitation of decades old Left Wing talking points.
 
You can't destroy the economy and expect unemployment to go down.

again, you're not responding to what I wrote ... I agree, you can't destroy the economy and expect unemployment to go down (even though it has despite the GOP's best efforts to drive it up by opposing the president on virtually everything because of who he is - Why doesn't that bother you? That could've been you or your son or daughter ...) - but who was it that almost destroyed the economy? BTW, where does your disdain for this president come from ... your posts drip of it ...
 
Your well thought answet was nothing more than criticising black business owners--the greedy private sector--and calling black folks homophobes.

There's nothing well thought about your post. It's nothong more than regurgitation of decades old Left Wing talking points.

you are a piece of work ... my God ... are you saying that whites are the only ones opposed to higher taxes or oppose gay marriage?

I'm wasting my time with you, aren't I? Please be honest with me.
 
You can't destroy the economy and expect unemployment to go down.

Precisely. And since unemployment has indeed gone down, Cons who say Obama has destroyed the economy have to be foolish, delusional or both.
 
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