Why do Rethugs have so much trouble understanding why black folks don't vote for them?

[Ken Burch]

They seem to think that there's no legitimate reason for black voters to back Democrats or any other party against their party...they cling to this delusional "plantation" metaphor-with its argument that blacks would gladly back a party that has spent the last fifty years slandering and demonizing black people, depicting them as the lowest order of life in the galaxy, while simultaneously blaming them for every problem in the country that they can't think of a way to blame hispanics, women and LGBT people for...if ONLY it weren't for some mythical group of "poverty pimps" and Democratic politicians using(actually quite insufficient and frankly close to useless) social benefits to cloud the African-American mind-with an incomprehensible ferocity. And they actually believe they are entitled to expect black votes for a party and an ideology that treats ANY significant increase in black voter turnout or political involvement as some sort of crime.

Anybody here have any clues as to why the other party would ever think they could get the vote of people that they treat with such relentless contempt and abuse?

Why do they have so much trouble understanding that it would actually be masochistic for African-Americans to support them?

Would straight white male voters ever back a party that subjected THEM to even a tenth of such viciousness(look at how hard it is get THOSE guys to vote Democratic...and Democrats never said or did ANYTHING bad to them)?

Bonus question...anybody know who invented the "plantation" meme in the first place?

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. I have a few ideas of why the Republicans may think that they should have more black support

"Party of Lincoln" (although that was a long damn time ago, the current Republican party is the descendant of all those disaffected Southern Democrats who switched parties out of disgust that they couldn't segregate anymore); "values" (the church as a traditional centre of black community has led to black Americans being the most consistently religious and church-going population group). Although black Americans are unique in that the more religious they are...the less likely to vote Republican (see here, for instance).

[Ken Burch]

4. They apparently forgot that they changed from being "the Party of Lincoln"

to "the Party of Jefferson Davis" the moment Barry Goldwater pledged to fight for repeal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
And that they moved on to becoming "the Party of George Wallace" the moment Reagan invented the "welfare queen"-while also becoming "the party of Frank Rizzo and Lester Maddox" the moment Nixon first invoked the "law and order" code phrase.

[malaise]

2. Because they believe their own myths and lies

and expect everyone else to buy their bullshit

[drm604]

3. They understand why, at least the party leaders do.

They just think that if they pretend otherwise, that people will start to believe it. It's the whole "create our own reality" thing. The Republican Party is all about spin.

[Skittles]

5. because they think black folk are easily manipulated

it utterly astounds repukes that black folk do not fall for their bullshit

[Flashmann]

6. other party would ever think they could get the vote

"Anybody here have any clues as to why the other party would ever think they could get the vote of people that they treat with such relentless contempt and abuse?"




The rethugs allow some of those of the African-American community to work at their country clubs,and in some cases even obtain token memberships?

[The Second Stone]

7. They lack the ability to empathize

and see things from another point of view. They entirely lack that ability. It's a mental illness.

[L0oniX]

8. ...because they are white???

[MrScorpio]

9. The Republicans are suffering from severe self esteem issues

A constant drumbeat of fear and feelings of inadequacy plagues them to no end.

They live to be liked, followed, listened to and obeyed. They are, after all, the "gold standard" and the default party... Or at least they like to think that they are. Their gods are money and power and have no concept of the fact that money and power aren't the only things in this world that people would need.

So, part of their reaction is based on jealousy, with other parts made up of fear, ignorance and hatred.

If they're not loved and admired as the natural leaders, it really burns them up inside.

Simply tell them that they're not wanted, just as blacks, Latinos, the lgbtq community and anyone else with any common sense and a lick of common decency and you'll see how they treat you too.

[JaneyVee]

10. & they pander for minority votes while their base flies racist confederate & Don't Tread on Me flags

[Douglas Carpenter]

11. in some ways it is only a little bit more far out than liberals not understanding why rural white

folks don't vote for them - Although granted liberals do not intentionally marginalize rural white folks the way conservatives had their conscious Southern strategy which did intentionally play on racial fear and prejudice.. But so much of the liberal agenda is an urbane agenda - especially now that the concentration is on social issues and the New Deal and Great Society that did benefit rural communities have largely been abandoned. It is hard to tell rural white folks that they are voting against their own interest when many of them do in fact very much love their churches, their guns and their Bibles- - when it has been decades since the Democrats championed the kind of economic issues that might keep them on board.

[Boomerproud]

12. Because Republicans (and some Democrats) have trouble understanding anthing.