Well tearing down a statue of Abraham Lincoln because he used the N word at a time when using that word was socially acceptable is kinda silly.
If the "working people" left the party, what's left is the non-working people. How are they "elite?"
The same people calling Dems elites love guys like Josh Hawley who are the definition of elite. Jay does have some truth in what he says though, and the Dems really need to realize they need to go back to being the party of the working people, and not the party of everyone's feelings.
I disagree with this characterization. The right-wing, however, has been effective in getting people to believe it.
I don't need the rightwing to tell me what I can see with my own eyes. This is prime time for the Dems to really establish a strong majority, but all this woke bullshit will make elections closer than they should be.
Your personal view is irrelevant to the true history and reasoning behind the existence of the Confederate statues.
Completely nonsensical response.
To which I responded; “I shouldn’t be.”
Meh. Opinion noted.
Wall Street, trial lawyers, entertainers, and tech money have come to dominate Democratic party interests. Wage-earners moved initially to Reagan and more recently to Trump. There has also been a significant shift of Hispanics to the Republican party.
Is that untrue?
If you believe the Democratic party is elitist because conservative racists migrated to the Repub party then yes, I embrace the Democrat's new 'elitism'. Conservatives believe tax cuts for the rich paid by the working stiff, being educated past the 12th grade and not believing the big lie or that vaccines magnetizes makes you an elitist...
Every knows, or at least I thought everyone knew, that the democrats of 100 years ago are the republicans of today.
If you believe half of what you just said, you have been drinking the Kool-Aid. Wage-earners left the Democrats and were replaced by the rich, whom you seem to dislike. The Tax cut benefitted the middle class, who also had real wage growth under Trump for the first time in a generation.
The post above proves that no everyone knows.
Correct. Democrats can be just as racist as anyone else, though they project their racism more often.
Hey, maybe there is hope for you after all. The far left are out of touch with the average American, which very much contributed to Trump winning in 2016. I didn't even vote for Trump in 2016 and don't particularly like him but I sure as hell voted for him in 2020 just because of your post. The left are going too far with their politically correct cancel culture bullshit where they stick up for everyone but the white working guy. And, they let BLM terrorize the entire country day after day after day after day for over a year and then want to make a big deal about ONE day on Jan 6th. All of this has also caused an explosion of increased violence and crime in just about every city in America. I used to be moderate and voted both sides but the left have just fallen off the edge of the Earth to the point I had to vote for a disgusting human being in 2020 when I really didn't want to. And, Democratic policies have led to an explosion in inflation, which they keep on claiming is just transitory and yet they keep on expanding the time frame of transitory.
Devote? When will conservatives learn to spell?
Political parties retool and reinvent themselves all the time.
End illegal immigration. :Fail
BS. Whining?? You must seriously consider your speech. Nobody is "whining," just presenting a point of view. I would suggest that your stop resorting to hyperbole and low blows. If you knew anything about history - which clearly you don't because you have no idea how these people lived those centuries ago, their mores, their education, their life expectancy or the limited they aspired to, you would not be so imbecilic as to see statues as "heroes or villains." Seriously. Thanks!!
If their “mores” included support of the objective of maintaining slavery, does that make them heroes?
You can claim Trump did not end all illegal immigration. It's nitpicking, but you can make that claim. It's still a promise fulfilled because of significant progress.