If neither party runs an out in the open racist for president

[boston bean]

Then people don't vote based on racism.

We see that they do though when one is.

Have you ever thought about it in those terms?

[Jim__]

1. "a lot of poor people are born lazy." Openly racist language?

If Paul Ryan runs for president, is an open racist running for president? Would the racists stay home if he ran?

From ThinkProgress:

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) previewed his upcoming legislative proposals for reforming America’s poverty programs during an appearance on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America Wednesday, hinting that he would focus on creating work requirements for men “in our inner cities” and dealing with the “real culture problem” in these communities. “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with,” he said.

Ryan also cited Charles Murray, a conservative social scientist who believes African-Americans are, as a population, less intelligent than whites due to genetic differences and that poverty remains a national problem because “a lot of poor people are born lazy.”

Ryan may not be an open racist, but, I believe people could still vote for him based on racism.

[boston bean]

2. Missing the point.

[Garrett78]

4. Racism has been a significant factor since at least Nixon and his Southern Strategy.

It's called dog whistling, and Paul Ryan absolutely engages in that. Trump was more overt than anyone since George Wallace, which garnered Trump the endorsement of the KKK, but voting based on racism is nothing new.

[Uponthegears]

3. Wishful thinking

The so-called Reagan Democrats, those $70k/year suburbanites who put Tripe in the White House and who have allowed EVERY OTHER REPUBLICAN who has crossed its threshold from Reagan forward to soil its halls HAVE ALWAYS VOTED on the basis of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, misogynists, and/or homophobia.

Just because it's been coded as "self-defense" or "welfare reform" or "minimum mandatory sentences" or "religious rights" or "family values" or "right to work" doesn't change the fact that THEY know what thone words means and those of us who paid for it know what those words mean.

We should have called them what they are when they voted for Reagan instead of trying to win them back.