I'm convinced most Americans don't want a democracy or even know what it is for that matter

[Thanos]

A majority of people want their needs met. Some of those people have been convinced that other people in the same bracket are stealing resources. While the rich are profiting more than before.

A lot of group conflict seasoned w/ this.

 

[WIA20XX]

 

[voltronblack]

America’s Problem is That White People Want It to Be a Failed State

America’s problems can be reduced to the following. White Americans want America to be a failed state — and that is its fundamental, deep, and long standing problem. That is how America ended up here — more than half a century of white hostility to any kind of social progress whatsoever — which resulted in social collapse, and culminated in Trumpism. White people made America a failed state

I have some bad news, and then I have some worse news. Don’t worry, you’ll thank me later. The first piece of bad news is this. Here’s a fact that most people underestimate. America is still about 80% white. 80%. Given the record-breaking turnout, this election is going to be more about America’s white majority than about minorities, probably, at least if every group turns out in record numbers roughly equally. Minorities have much less power than many imagine, precisely because they are still seriously in the… minority. This election is about white America, and if it really wants to live in a democracy — or if it’s happier living in a fascist society.

You might think that sounds over the top, so here’s the worse news. The chart above says this. It says that white Americans, as a group, have never, as a group, voted for a Democratic President. Never in modern history. In fact, the chart above in fact understates the problem. This trend goes back to JFK and perhaps before. Are you beginning to see the problem here? Why I say “America’s problem is that white people want it to be a failed state?”

Let me make it clearer. White Americans can be relied on, in the majority, as a group, to “vote Republican.” I put it in quotes because it’s worth examining what that anodyne statement really means. Liberal, sane, thoughtful White Americans often overestimate how many of them there are, how widespread their cause is.

The result is that when I say “Americans are…” meaning of course the majority, which is still white, I get a wave of protest. Americans aren’t dumb! Americans aren’t dumb! They’re not violent, stupid racists! They want to live in a modern society! Are they, do they — at least the white majority? Let’s take a brief and hard look at reality. Here are some things white Americans have been for, as a group, in their majority. Segregation. Endless war. Inequality. Billionaires. Capital. Guns and religion as primary social values. That is what the voting pattern above means. Conversely, here are some thing white Americans have been against, as a group, in their majority. Desegregation. Civil rights. Womens’ rights. Their own healthcare, retirement, and childcare. Public goods of any kind whatsoever. That is what the “voting pattern” above means in the real world. Need I go on?

America’s problem is that white Americans as a social group, its majority social group, want America to be a failed state. They don’t want to live in a modern, civilised democracy, and never have. White America is America’s problem. A big, white, ignorant problem. The problem of the white American voter — that white Americans don’t want to admit — goes back more than half a century at this point. If the answer is “Make America Great Again!” then the question is: “well, who brought it this point of self-destruction?” and the answer is….white Americans. They’re the ones responsible for the self-destruction of the society they still rule as a massive majority. Nobody else is responsible for their poverty, despair, and humiliation but them. That is what the chart above makes crystal clear.

White Americans — the good and reasonable ones — overestimate their social group so badly that they probably imagine a majority of white people voted for Obama. Wrong. Even Obama couldn’t win a majority of whites. The only candidate who came close was Bill Clinton — and even he failed. White Americans, again, never voted any way but fanatically “conservative”

White America’s escalating temper tantrum — its pattern of regressive voting — finally escalated in Trumpism. That is how all of America ended up here. Ruled by white America’s fascists and fanatics, too. Which even the sane and thoughtful white Americans despair at. But will they finally understand themselves? Can they look in the mirror once and for all? We survivors and scholars have seen all this before — the phenomenon of the deceptive majority. By “deceptive majority, ” I mean the idea that good and reasonable white Americans have about themselves. That as a majority, they are good and reasonable, and so goodness and sanity and reason will prevail in the end. They have not in America precisely because white Americans badly overestimate just how sane and reasonable their group in society is. How can they be, when they think guns matter more than healthcare and human rights?

I’m sorry if that sounds harsh. But again, I am only speaking to you factually, empirically, objectively. White Americans have voted over again and again for their guns and their Bibles — but they have never, ever voted as group to have healthcare or retirement for all or any single aspect of a functioning modern society whatsoever. Not to this day. White America seemed to prefer supremacism and theocracy and authoritarianfascism over modernity, as a social group. And that is how America ended up being a failed state. That, my friend, is the ugly and difficult fact. That is the problem of the white American voter. And it spells real trouble.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

it's because that shyt has become affirmative action for the republican party we'll never be able to move past it

the only thing that can start that conversation is the dems flipping texas

Most black people live in southern states. Controlled by confederate raised CAC. And the “liberal” states are controlled by white democrats. Which creates a systematic apartheid.

And corporations rule at the time. Capitalism has mutated into a form of slavery. Work to pay bills, taxes, shyt you don’t need and then you die.

 

[OneManGang]

America’s Problem is That White People Want It to Be a Failed State

Damn I read this with the Ether beat in the background

Is this an article you can link breh?

I’m bout to make so many ppl mad

 

[voltronblack]

Damn I read this with the Ether beat in the background

Is this an article you can link breh?

I’m bout to make so many ppl mad

Yeah here a link the article it self is behind a paywall but the comment section is not .

America’s Problem is That White People Want It to Be a Failed State

Can America Solve the Problem of the White American Voter?

eand.co

 

[RickyDiBiase]

I think we take our functioning, if very flawed, democracy for granted.

I also think the average citizen is less altruistic than they may realize.

To some degree, we get the democracy we deserve and tolerate.

/thread

 

[3rdWorld]

Most voters want Apartheid.

Keep pretending you don't see it

 

[TL15]

The electoral college fycks up democracy. People don’t realize how much location/resources play in our actual system

 

[Lord_nikon]

The electoral college fycks up democracy. People don’t realize how much location/resources play in our actual system

yup basically