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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Rodham Clinton ... [View all]BeardofJGarfield
(26 posts)Cali. I think I read that the most of that margin of victory (maybe all of it) came from LA county alone.
Go right ahead and scream at me. Call me a troll. Whatever. Traditional Democratic demographics in the middle parts of this country are drifting right and all the votes that LA county can provide aren't going to help us keep the Midwest while Trump plays a cock-eyed mimicry of FDR.
Get back to the New Deal. That's what solidified large chunks of the white vote as reliably Democratic in most elections.
I'm in Michigan and see first-hand that huge swathes of non-coastal Democratics aren't primarily concerned with LGBTQ rights, "assault" weapons bans, breaking glass ceilings or making sure there is a fair number of minority individuals on the staff of universities that they can't afford to send their kids to. Should they be? Maybe. But they aren't. They want services that need, they want policies that will mean they have jobs to provide for their families, and they don't want to be told they're useless, backwards, or not important to the country. IOW, they want the NEW DEAL and a little bit of respect from the ivory tower academics on the coasts. We can and should speak to and fight for the rights, all the rights, of every single American and person in the United States and against every kind of bigotry and oppression. But the Democratic Party, in pursuing those ideals, has lost somehow sight of, and even scorned, one of its most traditionally faithful voting blocs. And we just saw the result of that on November 8th.