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White Americans must decide which side of history they want to be on and vote accordingly

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This election is about white America, and if it really wants to live in a democracy — or if it’s happier living in a fascist society.

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The chart above says this. It says that white Americans, as a group, have never, as a group, voted for a Democratic President. Never in modern history. In fact, the chart above in fact understates the problem. This trend goes back to JFK and perhaps before.
White Americans can be relied on, in the majority, as a group, to “vote Republican.”
Here are some things white Americans have been for, as a group, in their majority. Segregation. Endless war. Inequality. Billionaires. Capital. Guns and religion as primary social values. That is what the voting pattern above means. Conversely, here are some things white Americans have been against, as a group, in their majority. Desegregation. Civil rights. Women’s’ rights. Their own healthcare, retirement, and childcare. Public goods of any kind whatsoever. Who voted, over and over again, to have worse lives? No healthcare, retirement, affordable education, childcare — no public goods of any kind whatsoever? 
White Americans did.

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