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Paul Crider

Assuming against my better judgment that this is a good faith question, there are a lot of reasons to consider. In our two party system, Black voters really have to vote for Democrats, because the Republican party is oriented around antiblack racism.

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tiburke

I think your explanation discounts Black political power, and as a result diminishes how anti-racist the Democratic party is. Black voters don't have to vote for Democrats, Black voters vote D because they have shaped the Democratic party to their ends.

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tiburke

It is also odd to point out the Democratic party's appeal to all Black voters, left, right & center, as a negative. I don't see how any American party that does not appeal to all Black voters can be considered anti-racist.

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Alexander Hamizdat 🇵🇷

What I run into with DSA a lot, and truly the reason I left, is that they see us as "low-information" voters. If that sounds exactly like Trump saying "low-IQ individual", well, that's because it's the same thing.

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Matt Baldwin

It also undermines the point he's trying to make. If conservative and centrist Black voters are still voting Democrats because they're the safe, antiracist port in the political storm, then the onus is on DSA to demonstrate that it is also a safe harbor. And the fact that at present Black voters...

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Matt Baldwin

...as a demographic *don't* regard DSA as such a prospect is itself illustrative of DSA's weakness there.