Democrats Don't Need White Voters

Chasing the same voter base as Republicans has left the rest of America behind.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with
Meet Your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.
I looked at an article in the New York Times
entitled Democrats Don't have an easy way out, and you
know the subject matter this is written by Thomas Edsel,

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is about how the Democratic Party, which finds itself in
quote unquote shambles, figures out how to bring the working
class back into the party following Donald Trump's win with
the working class. And I got to tell you that

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article like this, as well as watching clips of former
President Bill Clinton on the View talking about what Democrats
need to do, get on my fucking nerves because it
is the same circle jerk bullshit that they do every

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time they lose. How do we go chase down white
people and bring them back into our party, a party
that they have not been a part of since the
Civil rights movement? And the way in which writers use
the word the phrasing working class as if we don't

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know that they're talking about white people. Bill Clinton on
the View said, well, we have to understand that those
rural voters are more conservative. People in rural areasm more
concernedervative so we use conservative as a euphemism for racists.
Oh well, the Democrats, they were too busy chasing the

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cultural elites. You mean, those that see the world as
a place for inclusivity and diversity. I am so tired
of corporate mainstream media tapping the very same fucking old
white men to tell us what needs to be done

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with this country that is becoming more diverse by the day.
The Democrats lost, frankly because seven million people sat home
because they were uninspired by either party. The conversation is
not about, oh, how do we convince white rural Americans

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that they're with the wrong party. I say, fuck around
and find out. As Donald Trump appoints more billionaires to
positions of power than they already have, they will see
the truth. They will feel it. Because LBJ said it best.

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Lbjy's quote about picking a man's pockets right, is the
most on point quote I've ever heard in my life.
Because it doesn't matter when he said it, because it
still resonates today. Here is the quote. If you can

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convince the lowest white man he is better than the
best colored man, he won't notice your picking his pocket. Hell,
give him somebody to look down on and he'll empty
his pockets for you. These are the same people who
will swear up and down make testimony about Donald Trump's

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wealth and his business acumen while buying his cheap sneakers
and his Chinese made Bibles because they got to support
their man. You are never going to convince these people
that Donald Trump ain't their guy. And it has nothing
to do with economics. It has everything to do with racism.

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But with every loss, every big blow that Democrats have,
it is the same circle jerk back to what can
we do, who can we abandon in our base in
order to shore up the racist white voter folks. When

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we look at who is exactly a part of working
class America, Lo and behold, it is not the white
man in the hard hat with the lunch pale, kissing
his wife at the door goodbye, and heading into work
to build the buildings, to dig the tunnels. Those days

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are long fucking gone. The working class is largely filled
with black people and brown people making hourly wages that
barely have the ability to cover their basic needs. Now,
I would argue that, yeah, Vice President Kamala Harris could

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have done more in talking to and with working class
and middle class Americans to show the public who these
people actually are. For a brief moment during COVID, we
recognize that those that were considered essential, right, those that

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were bagging our groceries and delivering food and packages and
essentially needing to put their lives at risk, Those were
not the rural white folks or the white working class

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that the corporate mainstream media has painted as the only
people that apparently are down and out and working in
this country. It is a lie. And so could Democrats
do a better job at actually cultivating community and connection

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within the Democratic Party? Absolutely, because you know whether or
not we want to admit it, and I know that
I sure as hell did not. But when it was
brought to my attention and I said, you know what,
you're right. The fact is that MAGA created more of
a sense of belonging over the last decade than Democrats did.

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What do I mean by that? Mean that if you
want to be your worst self, your most racist self,
your most toxic masculine self, you're like your worst we
have place for you. Right, society has told you that
you need to be politically correct, you need to be inclusive,
you need to use different pronouns, and here in this tent,

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I'm telling you, fuck it all. You can do what
you want. And for those that found themselves struggling to
really grapple with and understand this new world that they
are living inside of, where they are not at the
top of the pyramid, which again is a lie, right,
It is only the perception thereof We've only made incremental

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progress in this country for black people, for people of color,
for queer people, it's been incremental. But the way that
MAGA has painted it is just like, oh my god,
this DEI, this you know won't go most is everywhere,
and so you don't have to change at all. I'm

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saying that you get to be yourself in our MAGA
tent and Democrats are very different. If you misuse a pronoun,
if you are not your most inclusive, most woke self,
if you mess up in any way, we will kick
you out. We will kick you out of the party,

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we will dismantle your character, and you will never be
heard from again because you're either with us or you're
against us. And those are the facts, whether we want
to admit it or not. There has been no real
room for us to bring people along and that's what
I realize, Like, that's the honest truth. While the Democratic

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Party is made up of a lot of different communities,
it is pretty much like a tossed salad as opposed
to a blender. We're not all connected, right, There are
frictions within each and every group, so we're not grounded

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in anything. And I have said on a number of
occasions that Democrats need to reclaim patriotism, need to reclaim
the family, need to reclaim what it means to be free,
because we need something that grounds and connects us. I'm

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not saying that we need to all be the same,
wearing the same fucking red hat and pledging our allegiance
to mind Fewer or Trump. But what I am saying
is that people need to be rooted in something. And
this is where the Democratic Party falls short because they're
not the party. They're not the anti capitalist party that's
for fucking shore. Not when you're taking billions of dollars

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from pharmaceutical companies and billionaires and the like. So those
that actually are doing us harm with their greed, the
Democratic Party is not coming out and saying these are
the things that need to get done. We are the
party of the people, and this is what it means
to be the party of the people. This is what
we're offering because we recognize that you have been ripped off,

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whether it be our healthcare system, whether it be a
secondary education system, like you are being ripped off so
that CEOs and shareholders can buy their second, third, fourth, fifth,
and sixth homes. But because we have so much money
in politics, Democrats have never been able to situate themselves

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as a party of the people because they're beholden to
the people that are holding the purse strings. You can't
be the party of black folks and civil rights when
you're tiptoeing around and putting yourself into condortion in order
to appease racist white people and not to upset folks.

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As I continue to mourn the loss of poet and teacher, author,
brilliant thought leader Nikki Giovanni, there's a video that I
was watching where she's sitting down with Clint Smith, a
young writer and poet, and she's talking about the fact

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that reflecting on because this interview happened in twenty sixteen,
so Donald Trump was coming into office, and she reflects
on the eight years of Barack Obama, and she says,
what did he do for black people? He was so
busy trying to appease those that did not agree with him.

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And then she paused and said, actually, those that hated him,
that despised him, that he did very little to build
the pipeline in the infrastructure of people who look like him.
And that is the truth, whether we want to admit
it or not. I love Barack Obama as a symbol
of what him and his family symbolize about change in America.

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But what does it say that after eight years of him?
She argued, then America opens its arms to a Nazi, right,
a Nazi sympathizer. So we have to ask ourselves in
our desire to showcase. Oh, we're the adults in the room,
and you saw Vice President Kamala Harris going all around

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the country with Liz Cheney. Where were the linked arms
with AOC right with the younger folks inside of the party,
And we know that she was in fact a surrogate.
But the reality is, folks, that there were missteps that
are made. But it wasn't just made by Vice President

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Kamala Harris. It's been made by the Democratic Party for decades,
always going after, always chasing who does not want to
dance with you and leaving the people that are standing
in front of you to dance alone. Donald Trump, for
better or for worse, and we know that it is
for worse built a community of like minded people. Democrats

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did not and do not, And so I'm struggling with, like,
what does it mean to be a Democrat these days?
What does that even symbolize? For a moment? Right for
the three months of the Harris campaign, we could say
we were about joy, We are about hope and possibility,

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but at the core hope and possibility for whom for
what My problem with all of the conversation that is
happening right now is that it is the same old,
same old. Rather than working with the base of black
people that you have, people of color, that you have,

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queer people that you have, Democrats continue to chase who
doesn't want them, and in doing so continues to fracture
the Democratic Party. And that's why I say, and have said,
this is our time to really think about a viable
third party option, because if we're real about it, our

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needs are not being met clearly. And if there is
anything that this killing of the United Healthcare CEO shows
us is that America is in a lot of pain,
and there is a lot of despair, and there is
a lot of suffering, and there is nearly an issue
where I can't point to the billionaire class and say

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that they are at faull, that we continue to allow
politicians to be bought and sold by them, that then
create policies that only benefit that class of folk. So,
as I've said, great harm is coming to America, Elon
must said, oh, Americans are going to have to suffer.
He's nearly a trillionaire. What the fuck does he? We

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know about suffering and pain? Nothing. But maybe when folks
realize that now everything becomes more expensive, American life becomes
harder because you've given over your power to the oligarchs,
maybe that suffering will finally be what unites us because
it will be shared suffering. Of course, black folks will

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suffer more, as they always say. When you know America
catches a cold, black folks catch pneumonia. But this is
why I say that maybe Donald Trump is necessary because
he will fuck up, He will overreach. His people will
turn on him. I don't know when, but they will,
because that's what history tells us. But from what I

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can see right now, Democrats are certainly not using this
as an opportunity to unite. They are too busy pointing
fingers and telling us all the ways that we need
to go and court people that hate us. That is
not a winning strategy. So I agree with the title
of this opinion piece. Democrats don't have an easy way out,

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because if you're gonna keep knocking on the same doors,
you're never gonna find anything that is new. That is
it for me today, Dear friends on woke app as always,
power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Get woke and stay woke as fuck.