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Hortensis

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4. I haven't been. But I also haven't expect Asian-Americans
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 04:44 PM
Aug 2019

to be paying attention to me either. They have no more special duty to schmooze and court me to vote morally and ethically than I do them. We're all adults, given 12 years of public education to prepare us for the duties of citizenship, and as adults we are supposed to stand on our own feet for what we believe in.

As for the reality that some will vote conservative, any assumption that it could be otherwise is based on ignorance. At least half of every demographic group is conservative by nature, literally genetically wired. Courtesy of external threats, AAs are unusual in uniting almost all their conservatives and liberals in one bloc in one party, but that won't always be the case. Someday, when the threats have mostly lost power.

And show me someone prone to resentment toward Democrats for any reason, and i'll show you someone who's almost certainly either conservative or far/fringe left, in both cases hardly reliable Democratic voters even if we promised them personally the world.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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