Political Discussion and Commentary

Well YEAH but at least we (not me I voted for Harris) did the noble thing and forfeited our future and living standards in order to save the poor people in Gaza. Other people in the world have it bad therefore I deserve to have an even shittier life. Real nice. Fucking dipshits.

Voter apathy and vote suppression. Republicans are enhancing that lately, too.

Hello there. Nice to meet you. My name is Jerry...Jerry Mander.

Unfortunately, that's only 14.4% of the US population. Quite a few people think it's far higher than that. It's not.

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/

Thank the electoral college. There's a lot of additional reasons, but they all ultimately come back to the fact that Americans are not equally or fairly represented by their "representative democracy".

First Past the Post, the structure of the Senate, the capped House, and the electoral college... they all lead to some voters having more say than others.

Voter suppression.

Voter suppression, and part of that voter suppression strategy is apathy. If Black people understood they were such a powerhouse, they could change America, and then the world. But old rich white bigots have convinced many of them that their vote doesn't matter, nothing will change, etc.

Because the south is also full of dumbass white rednecks. Duh...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_African-American_population

Alabama has the highest support but only 1/4 identify as black. Republicans need 68% of the remaining votes.

Overall, 12.4% identify as black. That's not much.

Imo because of repression and not having access to quick and easy voting.

The GOP fuckers gerrymander the shit out of any place they can get their sweaty hands on. So that doesn't help. Makes the people feel like no matter what, they won't be heard, won't make a difference. Then the Cons limit the ballot boxes, limit the hours for voting, limit mail in voting.... Anything they can do to keep people from voting. They know they win as long as no one shows up.

It's disgusting and very undemocratic. Everyone needs access to voting--- easy and convenient voting. I also think voting should be compulsory (by mail).

This is why Black republicans scare me. Like, dude, do you not see with your eyes what is happening??

Because they’re still majority white and white people in those states overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

Part of it is institutional hurdles to voting.

The other part of it is the Democratic Party making big promises and then doing jack shit to fulfill them once they're elected.

There are way more rascist crackers in Texas than you can possibly imagine. Makes sense when your state was founded by assholes and slave traffickers helping the US states acquire more slaves after direct import was banned. Remember, the Alamo was full of colonist insurgents taking land to continue slavery.

Because a huge chunk of the population doesn’t vote.

2 main reasons are the church and the population numbers. A lot of people in the South go to church and get group-indoctrinated to right-wing political team ideology. The population numbers are an issue because black people are still a minority, although generally less of a minority in the South than most of the USA.

Democrats have spent decades disenfranchising their own voters.

The Republicans want non whites to be enslaved or exterminated

The Democrats want non whites to be slaves but not understand they are slaves.

People are stupid, but they aren't that stupid.

I don't think I've met a single POC that has faith in either party after 2016.

Because there aren't that many black people in those states in comparison. How is this even a post? The answer is so obvious with even a cursory knowledge of math.

People seem to think that gerrymandering can affect the presidential vote. It can not, since you win an entire state and its electoral college. Gerrymandering applies to state elections, like for example a congressman where you might redraw a voting district to aid an incumbant.

Computers and marketing own humanity. There is no honest democracy.