∞∞∞ wrote:
This is how Republicans lose elections: Women are called sexist. Why not listen to what feminists have to say? Blacks are called thugs. Why not open a dialogue with Black Lives Matter? Hispanics are called rapists and criminals. Why not listen to their hopes and concerns? Muslims are called terrorists. Why not learn about the history of American-Muslims? The poor are called moochers. Why not try to understand the whole life story first?
The GOP has genuinely good ideas, but this stuff NEEDS to stop.
You can't reason with someone that votes Hillary because we "need a woman president". The very same people who say electing a woman will change everything will be the same ones saying later rebuking people that a woman president doesn't mean sexism isn't still lurking behind every rock. The same thing happened with Obama and race.
If feminists bring a legitimate gripe then I'll listen. In other words, something besides the discredited pay gap and the idea that banning abortions beyond 20 weeks is like banning pap smears. I'm not entertaining those notions any more than liberals are entertaining the notions that Obama is a Kenyan Muslin Mujahideen.
Ditto with black lives matter. More black teens are killed by police than white teens? That doesn't prove there's any systematic devaluing of black life by police. Also, surveys about drug use don't prove the war on drugs has a racist bias when there's research showing blacks underreport drug use relative to whites and that there are things like concurrent charges that complicate the analysis.
Identity politics suck and completely derail any serious discussion of real issues in an election cycle. What you're saying is a lot like saying in 2004 "well, if the Democrats would share people's concerns about the queers getting joint checking accounts maybe they'd win the blue-collar Billy Bob vote".
Nailed it. We have a 2.5 man race. I still don't see Kasich getting the momentum he needs to overtake Cruz or Trump.
