SouthernIslander wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 12:19 am
Mommamia wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:25 pm
SouthernIslander wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:21 pm
No, they aren’t playing us for fools. We see what they do too.
Really? You can't tell that by the way blacks continue to vote for the pandering Democrats.
I don’t ask someone white people why they voted for pandering Trump or why they fall for his crap. I don’t care enough about it to worry about why white people vote the way that they do and I tend not to say racist shit to people.
I understand if you can’t have that same respect, but I’m not interested in having this conversation with you.
I didn't say anything racist. Even though millions of blacks have conservative values, they vote Democrat. There's incongruity in that. The dems know this and they pander for that vote.
I don't care if you read the article or not, but I am sure others will find it enlightening.. A few snippets from it...
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/why-a ... -democrats
.....In the book we argue that in an effort to leverage their political strength as a minority group in a majority based political system, black Americans have come to prioritize group solidarity in party politics. This partisan loyalty is maintained through a strategic social process that we call racialized social constraint, where by support for the Democratic Party has come to be defined as a norm of group behavior. In other words, supporting the Democratic Party has come to be understood as just something you do as a black person, an expectation of behavior meant to empower the racial group.
Adherence with this norm of Democratic Party support is insured through a set of social rewards and penalties which recognize compliance and punish defection of racial group members. Interestingly, it is the social and spatial segregation of black Americans that makes all this work. It is through racially segregated spaces that blacks become aware of the importance of the party norm for the racial group. And it is within these segregated spaces that social rewards for compliance and penalties for defection can come to define an individual’s social status within the group. The result of all this is that to the extent that any individual black American values their relationship with other black Americans, they will continue to act in accordance with the group norm of party support lest they find themselves socially isolated.
This decision to ensure collective action for the larger group interest is an effective strategy for leveraging political power, especially in a two-party system. A divided group minimizes the likelihood of responsiveness by either party, but as a partisan voting bloc, blacks are positioned to push their issues onto the party agenda. If the Democrats fail to be responsive blacks can threaten to withhold their vote by not turning out. This is how racialized social constraint maintains both black party loyalty and black political power.