Democrats advocate victimhood, ie, you're not responsible for the decisions you make, the actions you take and your lot in life; it is someone elses fault. That is a dead-end philosophy and why those that follow it are still in the same boat their in generation after generation; they are waiting for someone else to remedy all that ails them. This is where liberals come in with all the promises of free this, free that; we're gonna solve everything for you, no need to do anything because we got it covered. They are still waiting.

I can never understand why the Democrats get elected so often.

Their dogma seems to be the opposite to what made America great. Innovation, self reliance, a strong work ethic, a competitive spirit. These admirable characteristics can still be observed in American sportspeople as we witnessed in Rio.

However, on the industrial and commercial front we have permitted the Democrat's doctrine of welfarism along with it's promotion of a 'something for nothing' society erode the foundations upon which America's might was based.

Time for America to get back it's traditional values and vote the progressive Republicans, led by Donald Trump into power.

Blacks have been voting Democrat for at least 50 years and what has it got them ? Nothing. Take a look at the inner cities run by Democrats they are a complete disaster. If the 1st Black president cared so much for them then why didn't his trillion dollar stimulus plan work for them in the inner cities. Blacks in America will keep voting Democrat and hoping for a change they will never see.

No, you're not missing anything- How can Democrats possibly have the answers to our Nation's problems when they're the common denominator in causing them...

You don't actually listen to what Democratics, or the Left in general, have to say. So yes, you are missing something.

I can clearly see where you're coming from but, in common with most white Americans, there is a fundamental flaw in the main thrust of your argument.

The Democrats did try, as did the Republicans to reach out to the blacks, but for every forward step they made the black took two backwards.

There must come a time when the Yanks realize that blacks enjoy wallowing in self pity and bellowing about how they cannot get an even break in the white man's world.

This cry of discrimination echos throughout Europe and nowhere less so than the U.K.

What steps have the blacks taken to ingratiate themselves and fully integrate into the white dominated societies in which they live and succeed just as the Jewish and Asian people have.

Indeed, many ethnic groups are able to exploit their right to equality and the liberal laws of the west to surpass the achievements of their white counterparts.

However, not so the blacks. In the main, but certainly with exceptions, they are more comfortable lying back and doing little or nothing but blaming their self imposed plight on the big bad white man.

So far, and in common with your European cousins, you Yanks have swallowed this myth and are chasing shadows, which you'll never catch, trying to rectify a perceived problem which not only will never be fixed but is unfixable.

The whinging, resentful self-pitying blacks need a kick up the backside and made to realize that they and only they have the solution to their social and financial position.

They are speraking out to the problems of broken families.

And what's their solution? Shame people? Say that broken families are bad? How's that working out for you?

The black unemployment rate has averaged lower than the current rate in only 2 years on record: 1999 and 2000.

Wages increased 5.2% in 2015, the sharpest annual increase on record.

Along with the largest drop in the poverty rate since 1968.

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