Blacks Voting Democrat

[5GallonBucket]

The problem

When parents spare the rod.....

[Old school eagle]

On 7/27/2020 at 9:18 PM, Old school eagle said:

Very few Democrats aligned themselves with JFK when he was president.  Like the Republicans, he was socially, fiscally, and morally conservative.  The majority of Democrats were from the south and hated Kennedy.  That’s why he wasn’t able to get the Civil Rights and Voting Rights bills passed. When LBJ took over , he used strong arm tactics and blackmail to get get the Southern Democrats to vote the way  he wanted them to.  There were several gay Senators and congressmen who he threatened to out if they didn’t vote his way.  One was Senator Russell from Georgia who was considered the most powerful man in the Senate.  He also realized that Blacks were getting more power politically with their civil  rights movement And if he gave them a little something they might change from Republican to Democrat.  That’s when welfare and Medicare was passed.  He gave them just enough to barely pay bills but not enough to get out of poverty.  The problem was you couldn’t work and collect this government help, you had to be unemployed.  He decided Blacks would rather have the free stuff and stay in poverty but would still vote for Democrats because they were getting something from them.  He famously said”I’ll have those N*****s voting Democrat for 200 years. LBJ was right.  Blacks realized they had to work to make a decent living but as group they still vote Democrat because they feel they are supposed to.  They don’t want to go against the grain even if sometimes it doesn’t make sense.

 

[Old school eagle]

I didn’t know this had been taken down. It looks a little out of context since it was written a lot earlier in the thread.  Not everyone is D or R.  Indepents are the group that determines almost every national election.  Trump won a lot of Independents who didn’t consider themselves Republicans.  That might be why he won.