Sixty years ago, the black vote went to the GOP. Back then there were a lot of southern, racists Democrats. In the 1960's Lyndon B Johnson turned that around, signed a Civil Rights Act and turned everything around - now blacks are among the most reliable voters for the Democrats.
The GOP keeps pushing their same, current philosophy and tries to convince people that it will help the blacks more than the Democrats.
It will never work. That strategy has been tried and failed so many times, it has become my go-to example of Albert Einstein's definition of INSANITY ("Trying the same thing and expecting different results").
So, how could the GOP win back the black vote? Yes, it is possible to do without abandoning their ideals.
They could do it by doing the following:
1) Carry through on their false claim of fiscal responsibility and 'freedom from oppressive government' by massively reducing budgets for small and local government police mismanagement. Note the "mis" in that sentence.
3) Stop insisting on using Sales Tax to fund local governments, it affects the poor far too much. Instead, eliminate sales tax and use a state Property Taxes. Property Taxes are shared equally by the rich and the poor - as rental prices go up when property taxes do. Yes, that means property taxes (and rents) will go up a lot. Not important.
4) Speaking of property tax, insist that each school district gets the same amount of money per student enrolled.
5) Start calling out racism and prejudice among their own. Idiots doing things like "Make America White Again" (actual billboard used by a Republican in 2016) should be literally kicked out of the Republican party.
If the GOP took these steps, ten years from now, they would have a whole bunch of new, darker republicans.
The GOP keeps pushing their same, current philosophy and tries to convince people that it will help the blacks more than the Democrats.
It will never work. That strategy has been tried and failed so many times, it has become my go-to example of Albert Einstein's definition of INSANITY ("Trying the same thing and expecting different results").
So, how could the GOP win back the black vote? Yes, it is possible to do without abandoning their ideals.
They could do it by doing the following:
1) Carry through on their false claim of fiscal responsibility and 'freedom from oppressive government' by massively reducing budgets for small and local government police mismanagement. Note the "mis" in that sentence.
- Make it illegal to ever hold a person in jail for failure to pay a fine less than $5000. Many poor people, a distressing number of whom are black, end up in jail, costing local governments hundreds of dollars per day, for failing to pay fines that are less than the government paid to arrest, adjudicate and hold in prison. Stop that stupid crap and sentence them to community service, not time in jail. (Note, this will also put a stop to abusive debt law suits.)
- Make it legal to fire any police officer or guard whose action - even if legal - causes the city to lose more than $100k via a lawsuit. If the police officer wants to fight the charges, they can pay to defend themselves. Business fire idiots that get them sued, so should the government.
- Pass a law that any deal made with a prosecutor to prevent the government being sued is null and void. Prosecutors have no business protecting the city from being sued, it is their job to prosecute the guilty - EVEN IF THE GUILTY ARE POLICEMEN. They are not their to save money by letting the guilty go free, it doesn't matter if the guilty are cops or burglars, doing that is directly the opposite of their job.
- Have the GOP actively push for 'community policing' by requiring that all new hires and promotions of police officers must be hired from within the community they serve. Right now, police are about 30% less white than the communities they serve. They want to police an area they have to live among them.
3) Stop insisting on using Sales Tax to fund local governments, it affects the poor far too much. Instead, eliminate sales tax and use a state Property Taxes. Property Taxes are shared equally by the rich and the poor - as rental prices go up when property taxes do. Yes, that means property taxes (and rents) will go up a lot. Not important.
4) Speaking of property tax, insist that each school district gets the same amount of money per student enrolled.
5) Start calling out racism and prejudice among their own. Idiots doing things like "Make America White Again" (actual billboard used by a Republican in 2016) should be literally kicked out of the Republican party.
If the GOP took these steps, ten years from now, they would have a whole bunch of new, darker republicans.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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