Why do white people cling to the right?

[Ravi]

I honestly would like to know.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The political left panders to people based on their race, sex, and who they sleep with. It actually isn't hard to understand.

 

[Ravi]

The political left panders to people based on their race, sex, and who they sleep with. It actually isn't hard to understand.

You could have substituted "right" for "left" and had been more correct.

 

[irosie91]

I is white-------my parents and brothers is white-------too white-----no fashionable
tans for us ----EVAH!!!! We is all democrats at birth

 

[Correll]

I honestly would like to know.

Is the normal margin of victory the Republicans generally have with Whites really high enough to say that "Whites cling" to the GOP?

 

[BULLDOG]

The political left panders to people based on their race, sex, and who they sleep with. It actually isn't hard to understand.

I'm lilly white, and I've been a Democrat since Reagan first killed the unions and threw me into poverty and I literally lost everything I had. It took years to rebuild after that. I'm not only a Democrat, I'm a Yellow Dog Democrat.

 

[Stephanie]

can YOU believe the nerve of these slaves for the left/democrats.

they have two WHITE old fogies running for President and then ask why: WHITE people clings to the right? who can support such two faced hypocrites coming out of that party of DIVIDERS and dirty politics?

 

[Kat]

The political left panders to people based on their race, sex, and who they sleep with. It actually isn't hard to understand.

I'm lilly white, and I've been a Democrat since Reagan first killed the unions and threw me into poverty and I literally lost everything I had. It took years to rebuild after that. I'm not only a Democrat, I'm a Yellow Dog Democrat.

Yellow dog Democrat? Really? You will vote for anything that runs? (as long as there is a D?)
With all due respect, I have to ask, why you do not want to know what each politician stands for or believes in..

 

[BULLDOG]

The political left panders to people based on their race, sex, and who they sleep with. It actually isn't hard to understand.

I'm lilly white, and I've been a Democrat since Reagan first killed the unions and threw me into poverty and I literally lost everything I had. It took years to rebuild after that. I'm not only a Democrat, I'm a Yellow Dog Democrat.

Yellow dog Democrat? Really? You will vote for anything that runs? (as long as there is a D?)
With all due respect, I have to ask, why you do not want to know what each politician stands for or believes in..

I am a Yellow Dog because of what the politicians on the right believe. I wasn't always such, and I hope for the day when I no longer need to be one, but the crazy right wing made that choice for me,and I don't see them changing any time soon.

 

[midcan5]

Resentment over change, authoritarianism, racism, bigotry, misology, misogyny, xenophobia, among other traits. White American conservatives want others to know their place and they want control. A few pieces below.

'The other reason for this kind of error is based solely on the assumption that white people who have graduated from college are less racist, less anti-immigrant, less anti-feminist, less homophobic, and generally more tolerant of diversity than people who have not. As a college professor, I very much hope this assumption is valid, but I could find no solid evidence that it is. At least in political commentary, the question is never asked, and you have to wonder why not.' Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong


'Trump embodies the classic authoritarian leader' 'The political phenomenon we identify as right-wing populism seems to line up, with almost astonishing precision, with the research on how authoritarianism is both caused and expressed.' The rise of American authoritarianism


'The reason that message works is because a lot of people are, in fact, White Supremacists in their hearts. They have been taught that expressing such views is socially unacceptable, and they genuinely do not want to think of themselves as "racists". But they do think that all those lazy Blacks / illegal Mexicans / terrorist Muslims are inferior, and being invited to believe that those "other" are also the reasons for their economic woes is very attractive, reinforcing their White Supremacist beliefs while allowing them to avoid the label "racist".' The Philosopher's Stone: A GUEST POST BY MY SON

 

[Sonny Clark]

I honestly would like to know.

 

[Correll]

Resentment over change, authoritarianism, racism, bigotry, misology, misogyny, xenophobia, among other traits. White American conservatives want others to know their place and they want control. A few pieces below.
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Nothing but unsupported nonsense.

 

[JQPublic1]

can YOU believe the nerve of these slaves for the left/democrats.

they have two WHITE old fogies running for President and then ask why: WHITE people clings to the right? who can support such two faced hypocrites coming out of that party of DIVIDERS and dirty politics?

Trump ain't no spring chicken either. A hair transplant, botox and a chn lift is barely enough to hide that fact. And his outlandish promises and lies are so wild that even Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox seem real by comparison.

 

[Kat]

The political left panders to people based on their race, sex, and who they sleep with. It actually isn't hard to understand.

I'm lilly white, and I've been a Democrat since Reagan first killed the unions and threw me into poverty and I literally lost everything I had. It took years to rebuild after that. I'm not only a Democrat, I'm a Yellow Dog Democrat.

Yellow dog Democrat? Really? You will vote for anything that runs? (as long as there is a D?)
With all due respect, I have to ask, why you do not want to know what each politician stands for or believes in..

I am a Yellow Dog because of what the politicians on the right believe. I wasn't always such, and I hope for the day when I no longer need to be one, but the crazy right wing made that choice for me,and I don't see them changing any time soon.

I think they are ALL crazy. Both Parties. That is why I say I am not a Party person. But for sure I just can't support one that wants to give away everything, including my hard earned money.

 

[BULLDOG]

The political left panders to people based on their race, sex, and who they sleep with. It actually isn't hard to understand.

I'm lilly white, and I've been a Democrat since Reagan first killed the unions and threw me into poverty and I literally lost everything I had. It took years to rebuild after that. I'm not only a Democrat, I'm a Yellow Dog Democrat.

Yellow dog Democrat? Really? You will vote for anything that runs? (as long as there is a D?)
With all due respect, I have to ask, why you do not want to know what each politician stands for or believes in..

I am a Yellow Dog because of what the politicians on the right believe. I wasn't always such, and I hope for the day when I no longer need to be one, but the crazy right wing made that choice for me,and I don't see them changing any time soon.

I think they are ALL crazy. Both Parties. That is why I say I am not a Party person. But for sure I just can't support one that wants to give away everything, including my hard earned money.

Sure you are a party person even if you are embarrassed to admit it. You will vote for whoever the republicans tell you to vote for.

 

[guno]

can YOU believe the nerve of these slaves for the left/democrats.

they have two WHITE old fogies running for President and then ask why: WHITE people clings to the right? who can support such two faced hypocrites coming out of that party of DIVIDERS and dirty politics?

so are many in your trailer park voting for dumph?

 

[Agit8r]

Not this cracker

 

[Liberty777]

Resentment over change, authoritarianism, racism, bigotry, misology, misogyny, xenophobia, among other traits. White American conservatives want others to know their place and they want control. A few pieces below.

'The other reason for this kind of error is based solely on the assumption that white people who have graduated from college are less racist, less anti-immigrant, less anti-feminist, less homophobic, and generally more tolerant of diversity than people who have not. As a college professor, I very much hope this assumption is valid, but I could find no solid evidence that it is. At least in political commentary, the question is never asked, and you have to wonder why not.' Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong


'Trump embodies the classic authoritarian leader' 'The political phenomenon we identify as right-wing populism seems to line up, with almost astonishing precision, with the research on how authoritarianism is both caused and expressed.' The rise of American authoritarianism


'The reason that message works is because a lot of people are, in fact, White Supremacists in their hearts. They have been taught that expressing such views is socially unacceptable, and they genuinely do not want to think of themselves as "racists". But they do think that all those lazy Blacks / illegal Mexicans / terrorist Muslims are inferior, and being invited to believe that those "other" are also the reasons for their economic woes is very attractive, reinforcing their White Supremacist beliefs while allowing them to avoid the label "racist".' The Philosopher's Stone: A GUEST POST BY MY SON

Change is always good as long as it's not forced, wouldn't u agree? Dosent one have the right to be racist as long it Dosent violate the rights of another. Is it only unacceptable for whites to b racist, n justified for everyone else? Ur misrepresenting whites when u say we resent change, Ur twisting the meaning of the word to make anyone who Dosent agree with u look racist. Just like u add that one word inferior when u have no proof whites view anyone that way. Lazy blacks,illegal Mexicans, Muslim terroists r these considered acceptable in ur world, n how do they benefit our society?

 

[Correll]

I honestly would like to know.

Perhaps rephrase the question to be less confrontational, and more serious reply friendly?

"Like why do the REpublcians always win the majority of the White Vote?"?

 

[MikeK]

I honestly would like to know.

Many (most?) White people adhere to Conservative principles for a variety of reasons, mainly their receptiveness to the kind of brainwash administered on a daily basis by such proficient, multi-millionaire propagandists as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Anne Coulter, and others. The primary objective of this well-financed propaganda effort is that of maligning the nature, character and principles of those socialist policies and regulations which fostered the most prosperous decades in our history, the late '40s to the early '80s, and gave rise to the American Middle Class.