The unpleasant fact that these liberals rarely mention, and may not know, is that large swaths of the Democratic base, groups they need to vote in droves next month — blacks, Hispanics and young people — are far less civically literate than their conservative counterparts.Therein lies the hurdle for the Democrats: How can they excite this part of the base that is not engaged and knowledgeable in an off-year election? How can they motivate these voters to help Democrats maintain their Congressional majorities when, according to a poll released this week by the Pew Research Center, 42 percent of blacks, 42 percent of Hispanics and 35 percent of voters ages 18 to 29 years old don’t even know that Democrats have a majority in the House? It’s sad. Pathetic, really. But it’s a political reality. (Only 71 percent of Democrats overall knew that Democrats had a majority in the House. By comparison, 82 percent of Republicans knew it.)
Instead of focusing like a laser on this problem, part of the White House’s new strategy appears to be to pick a fight with the left’s ivory tower intelligentsia.
Vice President Joe Biden said at a fund-raiser on Monday that the Democratic base should “stop whining.” The “professional left” may be whining, but underengaged Democrats are simply wandering. And, by the way, many Democrats don’t even know who the vice president is. In the Pew poll, 64 percent of Hispanics, 51 percent of young adults and 45 percent of blacks could not name Biden as the vice president. (Only 35 percent of Republicans got it wrong.)
But let's extend this knowledge further. How many democrats can tell you that every bankrupt, shithole big city or public school is run by democrats?
That's why ignorance works for democrats. See, if democrats actually had any knowledge of things like economics, civics, or history, they would be republicans.
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Gordon, I like most of your posts. But two posts today were especially good. One made the ever-so-true point that the KKK couldn't devise a system that could exterminate blacks the way the democrat run inner cities do. The second was making the point that the democratic base, who does not know they own the congressional majority, could not possibly know their party runs all the inner city shitholes across the land. Both of these points are absolutely true and very powerful.
I think it's worth noting that these, and a hundred other reasons like them, are why we follow conservative principles. Not, as the left would have people believe, to "keep down the little guy". We are the little guy.
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