[MinuteGal]

The blacks in this country with chips on their shoulders and real or perceived grievances (which is a great percentage of them) voted for Obama both times for one reason only....... he gives them a feeling of national and personal empowerment and recognition (hardly at all for his ideology, qualifications or any of the usual criteria).

Leni

[randita]

he gives them a feeling of national and personal empowerment and recognition (hardly at all for his ideology, qualifications or any of the usual criteria).

Exactly right. They also voted for him out of revenge, just as he exhorted them to. The revenge statement was no mistake. It was a rallying cry.

[Red Badger]

Most Americans, white, black or otherwise, do not even know what ‘ideology’ even means. They have no clue as to how ‘government of the people’ is supposed to work. They haven’t the slightest inkling of constitutional limits on government power.

To them, government is the sugar daddy of all sugar daddies. Get free stuff from the wealthy through the government. They cannot conceive of anything esoteric such as liberty and personal responsibility, those are foreign concepts.

We have reached the tipping point, and it is now behind us. No candidate, no amount of campaign contributions, no slick advertisements, slogans or bumper stickers will ever change that mentality.

No, what must happen is the system must collapse. It must be allowed to proceed to the point where people realize that they have killed the golden goose, slaughtered the sacred cow and eaten the seed corn. The ones that caused the destruction will be the first to be destroyed by their own brethren. They will turn on themselves like rabid dogs, fighting over the last scraps of the carcass.

Then, and only then, will we be free of this chancre called ‘socialism’.....................