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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
It's mostly Gerrymandering frankly but the US is a systemically Gerrymandered and the only thing the Dem's can do to fix that is win the Gerrymandered districts and statehouses, passing voter rights acts in DC wont do squat in the trenches, nothing the Dems do in DC is worth a dam because the power is in the states and the Dems dont bother with nuts and bolts state issues, the 'red' states are full of poor white and colored voters that should be easy too sell left wing policies too but you have to do that on the ground over decades of local organizing and you have to sell it not just to the black population but to the deplorables as well, something the Dem's gave up on in the 70's.
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Many poor people know that left wing policies are not in their best interest.