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Originally posted by Idontcareaboutyou
A lot of people say white men are foolish for voting Trump and we shouldn't say we think minorities voted against their interest by voting for Clinton instead of Sanders ?
Sorry, minorities have no more right to be protected from criticism than anyone else.
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If anything, minorities are proving to be the most stable and pragmatic voting block in this particular election cycle. It seems that a large number of white voters on both sides of the aisle have voted on emotion and a perceived loss of status from increased globalization and the continued switch from a manufacturing/product-producing economy to a service-based one.
Most American racial and ethnic minority groups never previously enjoyed that feeling of entitlement and have seen a slow but gradual improvement in their statuses. This is why messages like "Make American Great Again" or blowing up the political system doesn't have the same resonance with most minority voters.
Trump's "Make America Great Again" message laced with rampant xenophobia and racist sentiments was never going to cut it for racial and ethnic minority groups. While some minorities also want to see the Democrats move further to the left, the Sanders message was a little over the top and risky to broadly appeal to them.
This is why Sanders also didn't do well with many more business-minded people on the left. Tax hikes that would be higher than some Western European nations in certain areas and messages like "breaking up the banks" instead of "restructuring the banks under certain circumstances" bring many businesses a sense of pause. For this reason, many economists backed Clinton even if they were, like me, happy about Sanders pushing her a little further to the left. They understood the long-term ramifications of some of Bernie's proposals for the American and global economy.
I ain't the biggest fan of Hillary's but Jesus.
@ some of these berniebros using the logic "4 years of Trump doing nothing is better than Hillary."