XponentialChaos
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Ok, and your point is ??? This is a political site for the most part, and people are always speaking in terms of how politics effects their lives or others. This isn't complicated, but if the topics get to personal then the politics are attempted to be stripped from the equation. As some have referenced on these subjects, there has been a pattern and past that hoisted these types of stories into the political relm. Gun control could be the category this might be attempted to be cast in or it could fall under education, poverty etc. The Democrats have attempted to champion all such issues, and this one could have been yet another one but it's way to messy to touch I suppose. Just a little bit to cut and dry I guess. No wiggle room.Well the reason they are jumping on the political side of this is because the Democrats can't wait to make political hey out of it, and so being that this is a political site I digress.Of course, the Democrats won't condemn the robber being armed...
Why should they, when he'll keep right on voting Democrat???
The article didn't say anything about his political affiliation. Black voters tend to vote overwhelmingly Democrat, but roughly only half of black eligible voters show up to vote. Big difference.
He was a male, black, in his younger 20's, and likely uneducated. All of these characteristics are under-represented at the polls.
In 2018:
51.8% of males showed up to vote.
51.4% of black people showed up to vote.
35.6% of people ages 18-29 showed up to vote.
42.1% of people with a high school diploma showed up to vote.
These percentages are in isolation. If we were to combine them and look at the percentage of young, uneducated, black, male voters showing up to vote, it would be at most 35.6%, and likely significantly less.
Simply put, the probability of him being a Democrat is much less than the probability of him being apolitical. Unless there is any indication that he's involved in politics, then it's not reasonable to assume he participates in political elections.
Democrats are making political hey out of this? This topic was started by a conservative.
This falls under the category of gun control. Conservatives are also trying to spin this into the category of "violent leftist", which is unsubstantiated.