But I was reading today about Philadelphia, which is a shit hole, or used to be, and seeing how Obama got close to 100% turnout in many black precincts. All the community leaders were warning about how Romney just wasn’t good for “the working man”.
Surely to God, though, if words mean anything, if the plight of the working man in these neighborhoods continues to decline over the next four years–which is a virtual certainty, even if Obama pursues his war on the suburbs–that Republicans can begin canvassing these neighborhoods VERY early in the election process, six months or a year from the election, or tomorrow, and asking basic questions, like Malcolm X asked.
You are giving your vote to these people, and have for a very long time. What are you getting for it beyond free phones, crappy housing, and the ability to buy crappy food at a discount? Do you not want better?
And maybe they don’t want better. If so, when things crash, they will lose what they have now, and have no chance at better. That is the reality, whether they want to hear it or not.
But my take is to ask this basic question: why not tell the truth aggressively? Why not ask people who have always voted Democrat what they think they have gotten out of it. Most all of them have never been exposed to Republicans, since the Democrat propaganda machine has made them seem the root of all evil even though it was founded as a party to end slavery–over the STRONG opposition of the Democrats–I think there may have even been a war–and Democrats were the party of Jim Crow, and opposition to Civil Rights legislation. Their only claim to fame is coming up with the great idea of buying votes by permanently making people dependent on them. That is not something anyone should actually be proud of.