Re: 2020 Democratic Challengers VII: Bon Voyage Beto
As for Kep’s post, assuming that non-white people will just automatically vote for lanyard liberals who do nothing to change the direction the country has gone for 40-50 years probably isn’t a good assumption. We all saw Nancy stuttering like an idiot the other day as she got shouted down by non-white people who want serious immigration reform.
I did not make that assumption. However, I
will make the assumption, now, that whomever POC vote for over the next 50 years, it
won't be a white nationalist authoritarian party which differs from South Africa's apartheid regime only by swapping Dutch for Dixie.
To the extent that Republicans become an attractive choice for POC they will have shed their racism and they won't be nearly so toxic, and
this will also moderate their economics. I'm sure there is a good engineering analogy for this, so Mech Es please chime in: the racism of the GOP allows them to carry a much heavier freight of economic neo-feudalism because they are guaranteed to get dog whistle racist white votes regardless of the economic impact. A GOP that is no longer racist has to compete in the marketplace of rational economics, which means they will revert back to their traditional conservative, free trade, neo-liberal roots, as the Democratic party regains the lost ground of traditional Democratic Socialist economics.
Once
both parties have rejected racism the political battle becomes the historically interesting one of super rich/high poverty/cult of individual economic freedom vs income ceilings/low poverty/emphasis on our mutual interdependence as a society. That's what I want the American political battle to be about. For one thing, it doesn't lead to civil wars. For another, both sides have enough of a point that I can at least start thinking that either party
conceivably could have my vote, depending on implementation details.
I
want not a dime's worth of difference on social issues. I want Republicans to finally emerge from their social infancy and join the adult world so that we can have smarter and more productive political battles than durr brown immigrants are bad durr. I want an America where race has zero predictive value of political affiliation.
