A lot of people are sad right now, and we get it. Some of those sad people are too sad, though, and should instead be ashamed, embarrassed and contrite. Those people being the ones who make up the Democratic Party.
Four years ago, Democrats made a big show of thanking Black Americans for saving their republic for the 10 thousandth fucking time (Editor: Not to mention building their fucking republic in the first place). At the time they promised them they wouldn’t forget it.
And they sure didn’t! Remember all of those Black judges they hired?
Yeah, that was great, it was particularly nice how they hired Ketanji Brown Jackson to the venerable position of considering the most important cases in the land only to have her thoughtful, well-researched remarks rendered completely moot by the Republican-appointed judges. Such an honour!
But let us ask you this, how much time did the Dems devote to the subject of reparations? They had four years to “look in to it” and we never heard a damned thing (Ed: In their defence, I’m pretty sure they put together a committee to discuss the feasibility of a committee).
Hey now! That’s a little harsh! Some much more pressing matters came up!
Like what?
Um, let me think, I don’t know, how about ABORTION?! That was an issue that concerns more than half the people in this country, including Black women!
Yeah definitely, although they weren’t all that concerned about swaying Black women, were they? I mean, Women of Colour as a whole pretty strongly support Democrats, regardless of the status of abortion. But, while the Dems hadn’t even bothered to research the feasibility of reparations, they thought a winning strategy would be to focus all of their energy on reproductive rights in the hope that a voting block that had only supported the Republicans in two elections since 1952, that could secure said rights on the state level (Ed: and did), and wouldn’t even vote for a fellow pale-lass in Hilary Clinton, would suddenly be swayed to vote for a half-Black, half-Asian lady.
Meanwhile, Trump won White women by a margin of 7%, or 2.8% of the electorate (Ed: we used the data here), while simultaneously nabbing a proportion of non-White Americans that represented 7.85% of the whole. They could’ve made up the White women-gap by simply offering every minority in the country free ice cream for a year! (Ed: Seriously, we’re people of colour ourselves, plenty of our cousins really are that simple).
It’s not the simple! The popular vote isn’t enough! You’re forgetting about the electoral college! And the gerrymandering! and the two party system!
Oh right, the electoral college. The thing folks, especially Democrats, have been complaining about non-stop since 2000 (Ed: and gerrymandering since 1812). When was the last time you saw the Democrats take a real run at that, at any level? When have you seen them make a serious challenge at changing the FPTP system?
Oh come on! You know damned well the Republicans won’t go along with any changes!
We sure do, and so do the Democrats, but they doesn’t stop them from constantly trying to “find consensus” with them, does it? Or hell, even when they’ve had “majorities”, they couldn’t even get their own guys to go along. Here’s a question, instead trying to change the minds of the McConnells and Manchins of the world, how much energy have they spent on changing the votes of some of the Republicans of colour? They’re no more slimy than Kyrsten Sinema. Maybe offer them a cushy appointment or sweet contract for their constituents. (Ed: Surely they could’ve won over Herman Cain with a better deal than Trump’s offer of killing the man)
Hey now, Democrats pride themselves in doing things the right way!
Really? Because the right way sure seems pretty wrong. Call us crazy, but given the way he’s folded for Donald Trump, maybe it’s better to field a candidate that Lindsey Graham doesn’t laud as “as good a man as God created” and instead threatens to make the coward’s life a living hell of he doesn’t go along with their plans.
Yeesh, that’s very Trump-like, I suppose you voted for the man
No, we’re Canadian, we can’t vote in American elections, and, we wanted Harris to win. But, if they were so insistent that the republic was at stake, maybe the Democrats could’ve stood taken their cues from a different Republican.
Abraham Lincoln wasn’t afraid to get a little dirty in his effort to save the Republic, and he did so by prioritised the wellbeing of People of Colour (Ed: At least that’s what we got from the movie).
But maybe the Democrats are just plain better than Lincoln. He won elections, after all.
