Shock: Democrats ramping up election-year race-baiting tactics

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Yep.

Not exactly a surprise, but The Hill reports this morning that Democrats are ramping up their despicable race-baiting tactics to try and emotionally manipulate one of their most crucial voting blocsΒ during an election year because they badly need the votes:

[…] Democrats reject charges that the rhetoric is a concerted political calculation on their part as they try to retain their Senate majority and make gains in the House.

β€œYou turn out voters by demonstrating your past performance and what you’re promising to do for a constituent in the future,” said Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. β€œI don’t call that race-baiting. I call that a political platform.”

Β Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), the only African-American Republican in Congress and a leader in his party’s outreach to minority voters, slammed the perceived approach.Β 

β€œWhat alienates people is getting all of us stirred by the notion that we should be afraid of somebody else. [Democrats’] comments are designed to evoke fear from my perspective,” said Scott. β€œIt’s unfortunate, and it should be shameful, frankly.”

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Much like Democrats have highlighted their efforts to reform student loan rates to appeal to students, or their efforts to protect access to contraception to woo female voters, couching policy debates in racial terms allows the party to speak directly to another important portion of its base: minorities.

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Georgia-based Democratic strategist Tharon Johnson, who worked on the 2012 Obama campaign, said Democrats β€” especially those in the South β€” needed to talk about the issues that matter to minorities and be open about the country’s inequality.

β€œWe can never be afraid to talk about the issue of race while we still have racism in this country every single day, as far as economics, inclusion and with our justice system,” said Johnson. β€œLandrieu, Nunn and others have to be bold and direct when it comes to issues like public education and the justice system and economic equality that deals with race when they’re having conversations with voters. They have to be willing to talk about it.”

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Democratic National Committee spokesman Mo Elleithee said the party often discusses these issues in racial terms because it’s important for Democrats to point out Republican hypocrisy.

β€œThe problem is, the message does matter, and the agenda matters, and they have fallen even further behind with an agenda, and actions that I think continue to poke these communities that they claim they want to reach out to in the eye,” he said.

β€œAnd so, yeah, we’re gonna call them out on that.”

Don’t you love the contortions Democrats put themselves through in order to justify one of the ugliest cards they have in their deck to play? Β The fact of the matter is they never stop using the race card in order to sway voters to their side, and it’s also common knowledge that they play the race card in an attempt to stifle debate from the opposition – because disagreement on this issue is so unhealthy for America, or whatever. But in election years, especially critical ones like this one where President Obama is in full-scale legacy mode, they ramp up the racial politics in the extreme because they know it’s very difficult to win unless they can convince people, especially so-called “minorities” like women and black people, that they are ‘victims’ who need ‘protection’ and ‘saving’ by Uncle Sam.

I hope I’m alive when a majority of minorities finally start rejecting this offensive claptrap in significant numbers. Once they do, the left’s blatant and deliberate demagoguery on hot button issues like race and “women’s rights” will only be viewed by most people as aΒ desperateΒ sideshow, while their domination of those voting blocs will finally be overΒ to the point where, at the very least, they become competitive. Β Hey, a girl can dream, right?

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