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Re: Immigration
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
We pay attention to #metoo. The average American does not. It's not going to be statistically significant. Whatever it gains, it gains in areas already dependably blue.
Race is much bigger, but does largely the same thing.
Identity politics is dangerous shit. There's no choice but to engage in it, as Trump started it all. But the actions and reaction cycles in that type of politics are really fucking ugly. And not as certain to bring about an exclusively blue future as one may think.
I see a 2018 election that favors Democrats. No doubt about that in the least. But I also see a bubble in terms of media cheerleading for it, and audiences for such cheerleading (us) who have no clue about what the average American voter is thinking.
We're clueless here. Me as much as an anyone else.
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In your world, it sounds like the average American is a white guy. In mine, there are a lot of women and minorities in purple states, and they are particularly mobilized to vote this year.
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