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To: Liberty7732

Blacks are smart to vote for the Democrats, it is in their interest to do so.

The problem is not getting blacks to vote GOP. The problem is pushing the white GOP vote over 60%.

Do that, the Democrats will become an insignificant minority.


8 posted on 06/01/2018 12:20:47 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers)
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To: Jim Noble
Get <15% of the black vote, and it is over for Democrats. I think it is a shame that the political divide in so many groups is excessively lopsided.

Virtually every minority strongly favors the Democrats, and it should not be that way. They should see that their interests in making America great are the same as whites.

It's the media that keeps this disparity going through their biased and manipulative reporting.

10 posted on 06/01/2018 12:26:16 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Jim Noble

Ding ding ding we have a winner!


19 posted on 06/01/2018 1:31:29 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Jim Noble
Blacks are smart to vote for the Democrats, it is in their interest to do so.
The Democrats make that case, every election. But in reality socialism can be profitable for a substantial fraction of the public in the short run only. It is devastatingly (see, “Venezuela”) counterproductive in the long run. And the short run is not 50 years since LBJ’s “Great Society,” it isn’t even ten years.

In no time at all the promises of socialism turn out to be hot air.

Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under 'communism' and 'fascism'. As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939,
'the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’
No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.

What is promised to us as the Road to Freedom is in fact the Highroad to Servitude. For it is not difficult to see what must be the consequences when democracy embarks upon a course of planning. The goal of the planning will be described by some such vague term as 'the general welfare'. There will be no real agreement as to the ends to be attained, and the effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go: with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all.
____________— F A Hayek,


23 posted on 06/01/2018 1:55:33 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Jim Noble

Plus one

I’ve been saying that that for decades


30 posted on 06/01/2018 2:11:02 PM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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