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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
I get the sentiment and I don't disagree. But you can make the case that there has been a huge consequence in the form of Trump.
If you didn't have a bunch of old scared white people voting for Trump, he's not elected. Right or wrong (and of course they are wrong) they believe that their way of life is being attacked. When you have a lot of the left bending over backwards to argue in favour of a racist just because what she said was about the white race, all they're doing is further ingraining these people into their beliefs. Now they have more reason to believe that the left doesn't care about them.
The mental gymnastics that people have done to try and argue in favour of her is astonishing. Accounts have been made of her tweets except that "white" has been replaced with other people and races and have quickly been banned for racism and bigotry - as one would hope.
I'm sure Psychonet will come in and act like the old scared white people shouldn't matter, but at the end of the day they make up a huge portion of the vote. So when the left wants to keep isolating them, just don't cry when they continue to vote against the left.
(And I know, as a person who's more on the left, that I've generalized unfairly)
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I’m going to disagree here. The RIght Wing news out right lies about various positions. If the “far left” did not exist Trump still gets elected. Trump is a reaction to economic hardshift needing someone to blame. So immigrants, gays, and other minorities get all lumped together as not part of the good old days. It isn’t the left advocating affirmation action or telling people to check their privilege that enabled Trump. The right used that as a fear based wedge to attack but in the absense of that wedge anything else’s is just as useful.
You had a motivated base that wasn’t going to allow a women to follow a black person into the White House.