*Tips hat* All the stars to you, sir. Reeeeeally weird how so many Christians seem to forget Christ was a Jew, also probably black.

“CNN will be airing live executions of staffers within six months.”

“In other words, who is to say that he can’t do that, make a comment, spend five minutes on a tweet and making a comment and still be the president-elect?”

Yep, that’s what my Trump supporter friends/family have been saying too. And ya know what, maybe they’re right. Maybe Obama did deepen racial divisions... by simply being black and demonstrating that we don’t actually live in the post-racial paradise everyone insisted the US was throughout the turn of the century.…

Yes, this is my exact problem too. Could afford a mortgage no problem; can’t afford even the 5% down payment for another 5-6 years. Saving $10,000 is no mean feat, especially while you’re paying those high rent costs.

THANK YOU. What really fries my bacon is Americans are always complaining about how they hate politicians, because politicians lie and “cater” and try to hoodwink you... and yet we as a country apparently cannot accept even the most obvious of hard truths (“Climate change is real.”) We hate politicians that lie to us…

A lady next to me at dinner in a pretty affluent restaurant in the very-blue city of Minneapolis was saying the exact same thing. No, I’m not kidding.

Considering that my parents make more money than I do, and I’m comfortably middle class, and yet still wanted to “show the establishment” and make snide remarks about black people on welfare.... gonna have to go with “nope, there’s other stuff going on here too.”

Honestly, I think the rise of the nationalist parties in Europe demonstrates that it really isn’t something specific to US or US workers. Europe, by and large, hasn’t had the same working class economic issues as we have (jobs overseas, cutting of the social services net) and yet is still seeing the rise of…

“Before we get into it - why is this nose analogy so popular? I’ve seen it used like 10x on kinja today. Before kinja, I had never heard it used before.”

Seriously? It’s a pretty well-known saying...

And yet absolutely no one is saying we should cater to those groups, or in fact care about their votes at all. I agree with you; I’d guess that a lot of the poor and the working class are minorities because hurray systematic racism. And yet all of the commentary is focused around how *white people* are economically…

Oh okay, so we should be concerned about emphasizing to people who are passively supporting racism that they’re not BAD people. And yet it’s the left who is obsessed with identity politics and being “PC”.

“most people don’t care if Trump is racist or sexist and that the fact that they don’t doesn’t actually make them bad people.”

No, I think most people understand that. I’m just gonna guess they don’t agree. Cause guess what, passive acceptance of racism *is still racism.* Deciding that your own economic well-being,…

This is a very good point, and shouldn’t be ignored. We like to think that a moral message is always powerful enough on its own... but giving up privilege and recognizing both systematic and internalized racism (as in, a white person looking at themselves and going “Holy cow, I AM a little racist”) is really freaking…

“The same people in the Rust Belt voted for fucking Obama twice.”
They voted for him in 2008, but 2012 saw depressed voter turnout; not as much now, but some. And when they voted for him in 2008, it was without 8 years of right propaganda on his birth country, his socialism, and constant racist dog-whistles.
You always…

“i hadn’t heard that. who was saying we should abandon pushing for equal rights and police reform?”

Have you read any comment section anywhere this week? What exactly do you think “abandon identity politics!” means?

Trump and the right have laid absolutely no plan going forward, just flat out lied about trade and…

It’s surprising how many people are ignoring basic political science, that capturing the White House for a third term is *incredibly* difficult. Incumbents themselves have a natural advantage (which is why you frequently see even unpopular presidents gain a 2nd term), but the third term is the exception. Consider also…

Going by what I’ve read, apparently the new direction is to throw any minority concern under the bus in favor of catering to the working class white voter. Abortion rights, BLM, trans rights, gay marriage-mere identity issues! Forget environmental concerns or the reality of globalization... forget being honest about…

And, it’s my grandmother doing that. She posts a picture of Kellyann and Ben Carson and says,” See, how can Trump be racist/sexist?”

I have no idea how to explain even the basic 101 concept that someone can still hate a group but think one or two folks in it are a-0kay if they reinforce that person’s judgment against…

We saw this happen in WI; Walker took a bat to the knees of police unions, and yet even while protesting, the majority of police officers *still voted for him.* And this was a good four or five years ago. The way Walker has obviously, economically fleeced his state over and over again and yet gotten re-elected is one…