@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:
He's saying clearly, he will work for black voters' concerns whereas trump won't, which is true, so the choice is obvioius. Not racist, a matter of political party viewpoints, where the gop just don't cut it.
Trump's point in the last elections was that Democrats promise a lot for blacks along with other minorities and everyone else, but they don't really deliver, so as I recall, Trump was quoted as saying, "what the hell do you have to lose?"
Democrats don't want to come to terms with how their policies and ideologies fail to achieve the effects they are supposed to have. What I wonder at this point is whether the self-undermining effects of policies are intentional or unintentional.
Look at Biden's plan to pull the Keystone XL permit, for example: that's going to stimulate investment in oil-tanker companies because investors won't fear losing business to the pipeline. So Dems won't frame it as an anti-competitive boon to the oil-tanker industry, but they'll just talk about how it's giving back sovereignty over tribal land to tribal authorities, etc.
Meanwhile, what will happen once the oil industry realizes they can start investing in tankers more profitably, and all the people who work and profit in that industry will of course be happy, and the tankers themselves burn lots of fuel crossing oceans, so why don't the Democrats talk about all that instead of just focusing on the feel-good story of protecting the tribe and the environment from a pipeline?
So translate that into policies devoted to racial justice/equality, and you see similar things like where housing subsidies stimulate new housing construction, but housing costs go up and people are discouraged from building and maintaining their own housing, etc. It's easy to just go into a poor area and start talking about money and development without thinking about the bigger picture and longer-term ramifications. When people are in a state of desperation, they tend to take a more short-term perspective, and then politicians and businesses can exploit that by offering them quick solutions that ultimately cause them worse problems in the long run.
