**** Elections thread *****

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a lot of republican positions are easily used to pursue racist agendas under a veil of legitimacy.

This is what I'm talking about. Just because a lot of people who are not Republicans think this is true doesn't make it true.

The myth is so pervasive that it may take a black GOP nominee to start dismembering it. So yeah, where you think a significant chunk of Republicans will balk at the idea of a Carson nominee, I don't. Not only are the vast majority of conservatives not racist, but everybody is so fucking sick of being called racist at every turn that being black helps him.

The amount of racism in the Democratic party is huge, but the only (only!) time anybody talks about racism is when a Republican does it. Nevermind so much of the overt racism in the Northeast and Midwest. Nevermind that Democrats push the racist policies and get the "racist outcomes". Nevermind that the places where blacks have it the worst have been ruled with nearly an iron fist by Democrats for nearly fifty years. But when the Republican party itself denounces the Confederate flag, a flag that is usually held up for reasons more complex than just racism, the Republicans are still the party of racists. The racism in the left is so ridiculous that its candidates get bullied by activists and have to apologize to them for suggesting that black lives aren't the only ones that matter.

This bullshit will bite the Democrats in the ass big time. If Carson turns out to be a strong candidate, he will win the nomination then destroy the left's coalition, and he'll do so while getting every bit as much of the southern white vote as white men do. Nevermind that the south is by far the least segregated part of the country as is.