Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

I guess you actually wrote this post, Hightor, but it seems so very different from your others.

...the majority of voting white people would still vote for him.

There were a few groups that appear to have driven this shift toward President Donald Trump among Black men. Over half of Black men (52 percent) who identified as ideologically conservative cast their vote for the president, and 1 in 3 Black men living in the Midwest also voted for him.

There was an unusual relationship between education and how Black men voted this year. About 26 percent of Black men who had a high school diploma or less supported Trump. But 22 percent of Black men with bachelor’s degrees and 20 percent of Black men with advanced degrees also supported him. Black men with some college education broke for Biden at levels comparable to those of Black women.

What do y’all think about it? D’ya think it’s true? If it’s true, what do you think it says about white voters, if anything?

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I guess you actually wrote this post, Hightor, but it seems so very different from your others.

Really? I was hoping that someone might be better-informed on the issue, maybe someone's brother-in-law belonged to the UAW or something.

I did learn a few things this morning. For one thing, the size of the wage increase is unprecedented. In four years, when the raises are completely phased in, a worker could, with a bit of overtime, earn over $100,000 in a year.

The settlement will cost GM around eight hundred million – but it stands to make ten billion dollars in profits this year.

Wages only comprise about 5% of the price of an automobile.

The UAW will definitely be taking these results "on the road" and organizing the non-union plants in the South.

This is a huge victory for the UAW and organized labor in general.

Biden has sent a fleet to the Med to give material support for the assault on the civilian population of Gaza.

He approved more weapons for the IDF to kill Palestinians.

And his mealy mouthed words about aid and humanitarian pauses are nothing but lip service.

He is the leader of a country that pretty much exterminated its own indigenous poulation, and even celebrates it with a celebration called Thanksgiving.

Are the people in the ME really going to believe a word he says?

He can stop it. He chose not to, instead he gave a green light to the IDF to act without restraint.

He will be remembered for this.

Black people arguably saved the country from that crazy POS in 2020, starting with the swing to Biden in the SC primary.

...but you sure need to mention several times that hey a few black men did it too!

The endgame is the complete domination of Arabia by the US & Israel.

...I thought we were worried about Trump starting WWIII.

But here we are—a la Biden.

It's not "American Hating," it's pretty much how things are seen from the ME.

Now you can bury your head in the sand and believe that the whole world whistles yankee doodle dandy and dismiss anything else as "America hating," or you can open your bloody eyes and see how this is going down worldwide.

On this issue America is completely isolated in the UN only cobbling together a pitiful few votes for its resolution.

Is that America hating too?

If it was similar resolutions regarding Ukraine would not have passed.

It's a lot easier playing osctrich than confronting difficult truths.

Over 8,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, killed with American weapons so far.

Can you feel the love?

You don't give a **** about the Palestinians. Ok.

This is the here and now, we're supposed to live in more enlightened times.

Slavery is no longer practiced for example, so don't try to hide behind historical all great powers bollocks.

What you're doing is assuming American public opinion is World opinion, and it most definitely is not.

Instead of dismissing my points as America hating, why don't you try challenging them?

On another matter the attacks on freedom of speech in America where it concerns pro Palestinian comments is reaching the level of McCarthyism.

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Black people arguably saved the country from that crazy POS in 2020, starting with the swing to Biden in the SC primary.

You haven't told me anything I didn't already know.

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...but you sure need to mention several times that hey a few black men did it too!

So what? There are several explanations for the draw the POS continues to exert on "white" people. Some of these people are social conservatives, some of them (including ones I actually know) are upper middle class business people who fear a rise in capital gains taxes, some are appalled by illegal immigration, some of them like demagogues, and some of them are racists – or any combination thereof.


His appeal to non-white voters is more difficult to understand. Especially since the numbers grew in 2020 – after we'd all seen how the POS "governed" during his tenure. Again, we see this more prominently in male voters. Now there are some non-white "business conservatives" to be sure, someone who owns a chain of restaurants, a hair styling salon, or a successful body shop and is thinking about the minimum wage rising, increased taxes, or an economic downturn which would hurt their bottom line.

But that still leaves a substantial, and growing, number of non-white POS supporters. A surprising number of voters with Central American roots are anti-immigrant. Crimes directed against Asian people may have driven some of them to support the POS as a "law and order" guy. I suppose there are "black" voters who support the POS and overlook his racist dog whistling – but why? It's a legitimate question.