Comments by "Eliza Dolittle" (@ElizaDolittle) on "Secular Talk" channel.

  1. Except he utterly failed to mention that the democrat party - in retaliation to the Republican party - had to create their own voting base. They play very dirty identity politics - BIG TIME. To the democrats, the African American community is just one giant monolithic group - same with the Latinos, the LGBT group, the pro-choice group; the anti-gun group. They too make promises that they never keep by pretending to care about the cultural issues they rally about because if they fix what's broken, they lose their identity groups and hence the votes. They herd them all into giant pens and -abracadabra - they have ensured millions of votes. Do you honestly think THEY care about these people any more or any less than the Republicans care about the pro-life groups that they rallied to their side? It's the game of politics - left and right. When he talked about the democrats, he failed to mention this very important, very real point.
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  2. Chomsky utterly failed to mention that the democrat party - in retaliation to the Republican party - had to create their OWN voting base. They play very dirty identity politics. To the democrats, the African American community is just one giant monolithic group - same with the Latinos, the LGBT group, the pro-choice group; the anti-gun group. They, too, make promises that they never keep by pretending to care about these cultural issues. They know that if they fix what's broken, they lose their identity groups and hence the votes. They herd them all into giant separate pens and - ABACADABRA - they have ensured millions of votes. Do you honestly think they care about these people and their issues any more or any less than the Republicans care about the voting base they created? This is what the game of politics is all about - left and right. It's what campaigning is all about. When Chomsky talked about the democrats, he failed to mention this very important, very real point.
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