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.
Umair Haque
Can America Solve the Problem of the White American Voter?
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.
White Americans can be relied on, in the majority, as a group, to “vote Republican.”
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 things white Americans have been against, as a group, in their majority. Desegregation. Civil rights. Women’s’ rights. Their own healthcare, retirement, and childcare. Public goods of any kind whatsoever. Who voted, over and over again, to have worse lives? No healthcare, retirement, affordable education, childcare — no public goods of any kind whatsoever?
White Americans did.
Friends don’t let friends get their votes suppressed. #VoteThemAllOut pic.twitter.com/htwB8ocuoa
— act.tv (@actdottv) November 2, 2020
The rise of American authoritarianism
More than 1,000 economists have signed letter urging voters to reject ‘reckless and selfish’ Trump on Election Day. Alvin Roth, a Nobel winner, tells us why he’s among them. || Via BusinessInsider https://t.co/sv0zgNRaJE
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) October 31, 2020
Read for yourself what Trump tweeted about the Responsibility of a POTUS during a pandemic!! If this doesn’t prove to you he is a psychopath nothing will !!!! pic.twitter.com/rpxvSKOnKX
— Billjockstud2 (@billjockstud2) November 1, 2020
Shoot your shot. https://t.co/XdZz4dh82T pic.twitter.com/elpBmzu6hV
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 31, 2020
