Quote (ofthevoid @ 5 Jun 2024 08:36)
Yeah agree.
On the smorgasbord of issues people usually will say they care about, nothing matters more than issues that are actually felt on a personal level. The top 20% will vote based on ideological things but large swaths of the remaining 80% will project their current realities as key issues. The mom that does the weekly shopping and has seen 30-40% rise in their bill is going to rank that way higher relative to nebulous issues of climate change, racism, whatever. She won't care if this inflation is because something that happened 4 years ago, it's the here and now who's responsible.
I think Biden's problem is he can potentially lose a significant amount of the lower-middle class of Latinos and Blacks because this is such a felt issue. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump not only wins the popular vote but does so historically well with the Latino segment.
+1 Well said and that's the sediment of the African American/Latino populations in Chicago. People who've been living there for decades are getting gouged in their eyes while Chicago caters to the mass influx of immigrants. Doesn't matter what's going on in Washington. Latinos who've lived and worked their ass off look at the new immigrants like "Fuck you I made it on my own here" "NO HANDOUTS". Then the African Americans who live in the most dangerous parts of Chicago see immigrants getting $3,500 to as much as $15,000 a year just for "making it here" and being houses in expensive hotels and what not.
You know the democrat party is in trouble when they FEAR the DNC in Chicago because they know the "Obamaites" are LONG FUCKING GONE. That's why they want to make it all virtual. Because the same people who voted for them for decades now KNOW they've been played and if there's any ethnic/racial groups you don't fuck with it's blacks/latinos.
You know it's bad when Illinois which has been BLUE for 200 years(because of Chicago alone) is turning more RED every day.
This was the democrats doing so they don't have a way out. Shit's hilarious.