So the criticism is that the Democratic Party hasn’t done proper outreach to: racists, xenophobes, Christian Dominionists who want to impose Biblical law upon non-Christians, bigots who want to stone gays and trans-people to death, and other such deplorables of that sort. At which point I say: Wha?! Frankly, if the Democratic Party had embraced bigots, I would have voted Green Party because I can’t support a party that embraces bigots.
Not to mention that it would have been futile in the first place. Even if the Democrats had reached out to bigots, the Republican Party appears to have a lock on the bigot vote at present, having elected a President who actually was *convicted*, in a court of law, of being a bigot (he was fined major dollars multiple times for refusing to rent his apartments to black couples).
No, what the Democratic Party needs to do outreach to is, well, Democrats. If the same number of Democrats had voted in this election as had voted in 2012, we wouldn’t be talking about President Donald Trump, because the race would not have even been close. Not that it actually was close — Hillary Clinton won by 2.5 million votes, after all, the largest margin of victory-that-is-not-victory ever in American history, giving the lie to the notion that the United States is a democracy because in a democracy the person with the greatest number of votes wins. But the fact that 5 million Democrats stayed home means that what would have been a 7.5 million vote blowout instead turned into a 2.5 million vote win that was a defeat.
So: Democrats need to reach out to Democrats. Leave the racists, xenophobes, Christian Dominionists, bigots, neo-Nazis, and other such deplorables to the Republicans. The notion that Democrats need to reach out to deplorable people is contradicted by the electoral victories of Barack Obama. None of the deplorables voted for Obama, yet he won. Why? He reached out to Democrats. That’s why.
And the Democratic Party, going forward, needs to do the same.
– Badtux the “Fuck the deplorables” Penguin
I agree. Democrats need to inspire Democrats to get out and vote. They don’t need the deplorables. Fuck the deplorables.
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In your list of deplorables (still — what a weak-arse word! How about “despicables,” “detestables” or just plain “dickheads”?) you left out the many who don’t believe there is such a thing as “facts.” Facts are just your opinion! If you want to believe that 3 million illegal immigrants voted for Hillary because Obama was recorded telling them it was OK, (channelling my inner dickplorable here): all that “fact” bullshit that Democrats try to show folks like the unedited video of Obama speaking, or the lack of evidence that shows millions of illegals at the polls — that’s just YOUR opinion! Yeah, Democrats could “outreach” to those shit4brainez… Reach out just far enough to smack them in the face.
I look forward to the years when the dickspickables start shooting themselves in the head en masse because things have gotten so much worse in their lives, and they’re not getting any better, so fuck it, I might as well just kill myself. Too bad they won’t do that until they kill a few of their neighbours, their wife, their damned disrespectful kids…
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But Bukko, it’s always someone else’s fault. It’s those Washington elites. It’s those egg-headed liberals who are taking our jobs away and giving them to wetbacks and chinks. It’s welfare moms. It’s never their fault that their lives are such misery and pain. That would require them to take responsibility for the outcomes of their choices, including the outcomes of their voting for Republicans, which never, ever will happen.
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Spot on Badtux. So simple & obvious yet the Dem guru leadership will miss hitting the side of this barn door. The Deplorable will never vote Dem. Dems will.
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Agreed.
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Absolutely tuxxie, HRC lay because she didn’t get enough of the liberal Democratic base out. Now the fault does not lie solely with her, voter suppression efforts and 25 years of slandering contributed mightily. But, what’s needed is the same as always with the left, outreach and energy but more of it. Because Conservative Neo-Nazis, like Rust, never sleep.
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Lay = lost, stupid phone…
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BT, you put into works an idea that was forming in my head overnight.
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