Republican Party Seeks Health Care for Whites Only

[FriendlyFire]

Detroit is a low unemployment zone ?
30hr work week requirements seem to be pretty high bar for medicare. Isnt Medicare paid for by the Feds ? or is state medicare for those which dont qualify for Federal Medicare

 

[Cutlass]

Detroit is a low unemployment zone ?

The county as a whole is. The center city is not.

30hr work week requirements seem to be pretty high bar for medicare. Isnt Medicare paid for by the Feds ? or is state medicare for those which dont qualify for Federal Medicare

Medicaid is a mixed fed-state program. It was created that way for political purposes. So while much of the money is fed, much of the rules and implementation is states.

 

[Bootstoots]

The problem being, if a Democratic party does not address the problems of various minority groups, those groups have no reason to vote for Democrats. The turn to conservatism that Bill Clinton and the New Democrats represented gives the Democratic constituency no reason to be, you know, the Democratic constituency. There is the Republicans, and the Republicans Light. And the Republicans Light is always at a disadvantage in that battle. Why vote for the lesser evil?

Bill Clinton's biggest mistake was abandoning the white working class. A Democratic party which is going to be really able to win enough elections to govern needs to appeal to the working class, as well as to all the various other groups. They've lost the 'conservatives', for the conservatives really aren't in any sense conservative any longer.

They have to build a coalition. Nothing else will win. And to build a coalition, they have to address the issues of all the pieces of the coalition.

Sure, granted. I'm not arguing that they should abandon the interests of each group in their coalition, and certainly not that they should go to entirely colorblind rhetoric. But there are a bunch of left-wing authors and activists that focus on race/gender/sexuality identity issues to the exclusion of just about everything else, and/or who talk about identity in ways that are guaranteed to trigger defensive responses in many whites who might otherwise be sympathetic. The Democrats need to address these issues, but not exclusively, and need to present a positive program to induce people of all backgrounds to support them.