My prediction for the outcome of the presidential election 2016: When things backfire

I am not a political scientist, but as a concerned, educated person of color, I will put my two cents in, anyway.


If Trump wins (and, as a social Democrat, I passionately hope he does not)

If Hillary Clinton, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate, loses to Donald Trump, the presumed Republican Party candidate, it will not be for lack of experience, intelligence, drive, hard will, or basic decency.

It will be because of the present day political racial climate, best exemplified by the New York Times, which demonizes white people and holds them responsible for all the ills besetting African-Americans, and, secondarily, Hispanics, while placing blacks on a pedestal, as revered martyrs and eternal victims of prejudice, violence, etc.

In some sense, it is the esteemed New York Times (whose recently appointed chief editor is an African-American) and other liberal institutions that will have made a major miscalculation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clinton-voter-turnout.html

I believe that all races have a part to play in racial reconciliation and that African-Americans can and must take a greater responsibility for this than their leaders have, mistakenly, led them to believe they should.

There is no need to alienate working class white (males) by making them feel badly about themselves while ignoring the fact that not all the problems of blacks can be traced to racism and discrimination.  It is they who turn out in numbers, not necessarily because they are racist, stupid, "bad," or necessarily in agreement with all of Trump's far-fetched political agenda, but to protest against being demonized as "stupid white men" who have killed and oppressed people of color for so long, from John Calhoun C. to James Earl Ray to the voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

They are sick of hearing of it.   I am, and I'm not even white.

(It is like hearing a broken record).

Working class whites supported Hillary Clinton over Obama in 2012.  Will they turn to Trump four years later, and why?

The election of Donald Trump will, needless to say, be a setback for progressives.

But will many be even in partial agreement with these unorthodox ideas?

Undoubtedly, not.


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