Dems do offer the only help, yet seem absurdly reluctant to promote what they do. They will offer the programs but everything needs to be hush-hush because Dems were so afraid of the Repubs anti-government rhetoric.

Weisman’s tweet was ridiculous. There are voters to reach and ways to reach them, but not by compromising with racists.

Eh, I think Brady is honestly stupid and has golfed with Trump and understands nothing. But yeah, crap on Bill.

Yeah but cops are going to pull guns and be even more willing to shoot, and you think Trump will have the Justice department investigate? He can do a ton of damage but just doing nothing.

Well, I think the decline of labor does explain an explosion of white supremacy. The unions acted as a check on racism as they were a check on the concentration of power in the country, which is the history of white supremacy. So far as they drew workers into a class struggle, they were able to draw them away from the…

Well, at this point no one should doubt that the result is the empowerment of white supremacists. On one hand, yes I get some dude might be worried about his job; on the other, how does it not disturb that dude he is supporting the same person the KKK supports? If you ever find yourself agree with the KKK or any other…

Unfortunately, I don’t think people are going to recognize how serious this is until the bodies start falling.

Yeah that for one. I don’t like the mindset that purports to love democracy then merely dismisses other people’s viewpoints as being the views of some horrible monster, especially if we are going to take talk of institutional racism seriously. Its not the job of minorities to reach these people, and I’ve grown tired…

Yeah, but his New York is not the real world. Have you read Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell books, there is a line talking about the aristocracy, “these people are all related to each other.” So, the the Times people and the Fox people all attend the some dinner and cocktail parties; they eat at the same restaurants and go…

I agree and let me first say this is in no way to diminish the problem of racism or sexism in the country, but that there are additional reasons for people voting as they did. The white liberals deserve a lot of blame for this. Unions were one of the biggest predictors of voting. The was a great article in the…

Don’t confuse geography and population. There are huge areas in the US that are very sparsely populated and urban areas are small and dense.

Whether or not the particular term is accurate in your personal case doesn’t mean it is being used wrong in a general sense, and also I doubt half the population has called you elite, or even knows who you are.

This is a good question and one that pollsters need to honestly deal with, and they don’t seem to want to account for the possibility that people aren’t willing to reveal things.

I think HamNo would agree with the criticism, but also point out that the (looks around for Pete Thiel) Gawker sites don’t really have the resources to be the Times. Gawker is one of the sites the talent is poached from, and now we see Chen and Jia at the New Yawker etc.

Blame them? They are trying to win an election, so should we. Repubs have been handling us our asses for sometime now, and we Dems seem way too comfortable talking about demographics changes and thinking we don’t have to actually convince people to vote. Repubs have won state legislatures and redrawn maps and Dems…

People consistently underestimate this. Again, as yours, mine is anecdotal, but there is does seem to be hostility toward illegals from many legal immigrants coming from other countries in the Americas.

I think this is important and I’d be very interested in seeing polling on this. I know people here legally from DR, Puerto Rico, Ecuador who are for border security. I think a lot of elites have forgotten that borders do matter to people.

Yes, Bernie wrote some idiotic things 40 years ago, and Hillary once said “super predators” and was not exactly friendly to LGBT rights, but would you know it, people change and learn.

So, my perspective on this is that many Trump voters see DC as very corrupt already, and she is the representation of that. Trump is a choice because they think he will wreck things. Of course, they are mistaken and Trump, as long a he gets to be the alpha and credit, probably will not give a crap what the Repubs do,…

Yes, it does when you have every advantage and control of the party. She is barely a popular enough politician to win primaries in the party she has allies in from top to bottom. Obama is gifted, no doubt, but he also revealed to unsuitability to politics. One of the things that stupid wikileaks did reveal is that her…