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Scott Strong's avatar

I don't believe minorities help themselves by voting Democrat almost all of the time. Tell me one neighborhood, I won't even ask for a city, that the Dems have turned around in these areas over the last fifty years. Just one.

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Steve QJ's avatar

"Tell me one neighborhood, I won't even ask for a city, that the Dems have turned around in these areas over the last fifty years"

I'm definitely not familiar enough with every city in America to answer that. But is that really a fair metric of efficacy? What does turned around mean? How many governments, Democrat or Republican, have been successful in doing this?

Asking about Republicans isn't just whataboutism. If you're asking what the Democrats have done, but the Republicans have been equally ineffective, aren't you just talking about the ineffectiveness of government in general? Which is a worthwhile conversation to be fair.

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Scott Strong's avatar

Turned around means safe, clean streets where kids get a quality education and there are job opportunities. Sadly I'm not aware of any where anything has improved.

I don't believe there are any large cities where Republicans hold the majority and if they did, who knows if it would make a difference. Though I think it would benefit citizens in these cities to vote for members of other parties so maybe more politicians would be working on the problems.

However you want to look at it, the Dems have failed miserably. So much so, I sometimes wonder if their failure for so long is intentional. Planned Parent Hood and liquor stores are about the only business's to be found. Poor educational systems. Bad policing policies

I mean fifty years. How long does it take to have some results? Anywhere?

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Chris Fox's avatar

And what have Republicans done for the country?

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Scott Strong's avatar

Don't care, I'm not a Republican. But see if you can keep up. My statement was about Blacks living in inner cities and anyone who looks honestly at the results of Dem policies in these cities knows nothing has changed.

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Chris Fox's avatar

тАЬSee if you can keep up.тАЭ

ThatтАЩs two.

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Scott Strong's avatar

Sorry, but your response to my post was not relative at all. Your post was, what about the other guy. Which many people use because they have no true response.

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Mark Monday's avatar

Camden, New Jersey? Not completely turned around, very far from it, but still improved in important ways.

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Scott Strong's avatar

Sounds like you are proving my point. One city maybe slightly improved in fifty years. Not a very good track record, wouldn't you say?

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Mark Monday's avatar

Oh you're not going to find much disagreement from my corner! I just wanted to provide the "Just one" example. Felt like almost like a trivia challenge LOL.

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Scott Strong's avatar

Lol, that's funny

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