Posted on 02/20/2019 10:31:15 AM PST by EdnaMode
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Only a minority of black and Hispanic call themselves liberal. Moreover, the liberal surge is driven primarily by college-educated white progressives the exact people who occupy the commanding heights of American media, the academy, and pop culture.
This white-liberal surge dovetails with other data, including the comprehensive Hidden Tribes study identifying left-wing polarization as being primarily driven by a progressive activist class that is disproportionately white, disproportionately college-educated, and disproportionately secular. The secularization of white Democrats is obvious from other sources as well. Pew Research Center data indicates that only 32 percent of white Democrats believe in the God of the Bible, compared to 61 percent of nonwhite Democrats and 72 percent of Republicans. White Americans are to the left of black Americans even on racial issues.
And, again, white progressives arent just any American constituency. Theyre the most culturally powerful people on the planet.
This increasingly rapid secularization and liberalization makes national unity far more difficult. There are times when progressives can win and yet get more angry. Take, for example, same-sex marriage. If you had told American culture warriors ten years ago that the gay marriage issue would be so settled that no serious GOP candidate would attempt to overturn it and that a prominent gay American would address the GOP convention, they might have been tempted to conclude that the culture wars were on the wane, that Americans were coming together on the most important issues of faith and family.
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There are more ‘Whites’ than ‘Progressives’.
Do not include me with those Commie, Marxist Socialists.
True that
their ideas are lousy-even “regressive”
They aren’t capable of a logical debate or discussion
many of them haven’t yet even figured out which bathroom they’re supposed to be using.
If they want power, all they can do is cause havoc and hope a little falls into their lap
Exactly, and it is hard for me to understand. I get the buffoons like Kristol and Kasich, and never-were-conservatives like Brooks and Rubin. But French is usually spot on regarding the issues. He, Goldberg, and Erikson have been warning about left-wing tyranny for years. Why can’t they understand that Trump is our only chance to stop it? (To be fair, Erickson shows some signs of waking up, but the other two seem like lost causes.)
“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; thats why all this has happened.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Only a minority of black and Hispanic call themselves liberal.”
But how do they vote? They don’t really care in any significant numbers about lofty ideologies or policy. Most people of any kind don’t. They are voting based on group loyalty, voting for a very general set of ideas that will benefit their groups. That’s the reality of multicultural democracy. It’s a racial headcount. Disliking it won’t make it untrue.
progressive activist class that is disproportionately white, disproportionately college-educated, and disproportionately secular”
and you forgot 90% freakin loony chicks!
And this is where most of the TDS is coming from. Pres Trump is making small yet significant inroads with traditional voting blocs, Blacks, Latinos, and in light of the Pulse nightclub shooting some LGBTers. In other words he’s muscling in on the Dems racket and delivering.
That sounds reasonable too.
Good point.
Dont tell the lefties, Marx was white.
Good commentary, until the very last paragraph where French can’t resist the temptation to remind all of us Deplorables that he remains a Never-Trumper.
Exactly. What a pantload.
Kamala Harris is only half black
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