Black,Republican,and Conservative

Joyflower in the house or as most of you have already known as jazzflower92 on my personal computer identidy.Most African Americans are mostly tied to the Democratic party and somestimes that means liberal.However,there some who stand out and goes to the Republican side and somtimes that means conservative.The some like me will get looks from other family members and friends.

I know the history of the Republican Party when it was the party of Lincoln and when it was the party Blacks had the most loyalty to.And I know from a lot of your posts that you keep pounding out how they used to be radical and I get it.But remember it was the Democratics who used to be the right wing party as well so it goes both ways.

Why did you decide to support the Republicans?

(There was a nice essay I read somewhere or other, by a black man who'd grown up in a family on welfare. He supported the Republican stance on welfare programs because he'd seen his own family squander the welfare money while blaming the government for their own Self-Inflicted Hell.)

edited 24th Aug '11 4:42:03 PM by feotakahari

Mainly I agree with a lot of their values but don't worry since I am of voting age this year I want to make sure that the canidates are consistent.I also think the government has its place in important specific areas of life but it can't do everything or it becomes too big for its own good.I also think spending has its place but too much can lead to a waste of money on things that are not really important or don't work.

If those are your views and your are voting Republican, I would recommend studying those candidates very closely. You might find a third party candidate who beliefs match up better with yours.

Right now, neither party is really practicing what they preach, you know?

More accurately, the democrats dont practice liberalism at all, and the "popular" candidates for the republicans want spending gutted altogether, not lessened.

@OP: What's your point.

I thought the Democrats, Republicans, and the Whigs switched names and that Lincoln was a republican in name only.

Well, first you'd have to find one that wasn't completely batshit.

Your race is entirely irrelevant to your political affiliation.

I'd be willing to bet at least one Republican is a badger.

that would explain their economic policy.

I think more blacks should vote republicans, or even better, be undecided until the last minute. The best way to have politicians care about you is if you're a swing voting block (or a lobby with deep pockets).

edited 24th Aug '11 11:24:48 PM by SlightlyEvilDoctor

Except that Republican policies, as far as I can tell, tend to swing away from the needs of the majority of urban blacks. So it's like, we are we supposed vote against, or threaten to vote against our interests, for a simple bluff?

But does life actually become better for urban blacks under democrat government in recent decades? (no arguments about back in Martin Luther King's days). Detroit has had a democrat mayor since the sixtees but doesn't seem like a great place to live.

I agree that Republicans do tend to play on the white fear of black crime, but for example applying harsh policies aimed at recuding black crime sounds like something that would be even better for blacks than for whites. A policy motivated by fear of blacks isn't automatically bad for blacks.

(I don't have very strong opinions on this, and frankly don't know what would help solve the racial problems in the US in the long term. More miscegenation until the lines are blurred might. Politically correct self-flagellation probably won't. I don't know what will.)

Yes, but then you have the "Woodrow Wilson" problem of a lying cunt getting in as president and buggering over your interests to the best of his ability.

And oddly enough it isn't, seeing as how you have extra difficulty in finding a job after prison if anyone finds out about it.

edited 25th Aug '11 1:08:29 AM by JosefBugman