2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: As a black loyal Democrat, I say SCREW the white working class who insist on voting Republican [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)We need to cut our losses and write off people who don't share our values and don't want to vote for our candidates because they embrace a multicultural party.
Instead, we should put our resources into cultivating the vast numbers of people - larger than those lost people on the other side - who share our values and loyally support our party and desperately need what we have to offer.
I just don't get this concern about attracting people who can't stand us. Screw them - leave them over there with Trump and his ilk. There are more than enough people on THIS side to help us win in large numbers - if we just stop treating them like they don't matter and insulting them by ordering them to shut up so they don't offend Republican bigots and insisting that we're going to bring people who cannot stand them into our tent.
We're supposed to PROTECT our folks from those people, not force them to share their political resources with them.