Quote:Voter ID is a good place to start. I understand this specter of voter fraud as why conservatives think they lose some elections but it's clearly been pushed forward as way to disenfranchise minorities. Immigration rhetoric is seen by latinos extremely negatively. Their stance on women's health is insulting to a huge portion of women. The majority of the leadership in the party are rich old white men. They promote "regulations" or "deregulations" for the sole purpose of getting the top 1% (mostly rich old  white men) to get even more filthy rich. They want to keep the lower class from having wages increase in any real meaningful way. 

 

I like your stance on a lot of issues and I definitely like your passion for your beliefs but I do not believe for a second you don't know why the GOP is perceived in this manner. 

 

Ok let's go topic by topic you have some valid points and others I'd like to explore with you,

 

Voter ID - I would accept this is an attempt to disenfranchise minorities if I could find anyone that was asking individuals to pay for a voter ID, or make people jump through hopes to acquire an ID, but asking people to present an ID when voting isn't any different then asking people to provide ID for any other numerous activities. It's not even about fraud it's about accountability, how are we supposed to verify the people voting are citizens without ID? I've never seen someone suggest only minorities show ID, it's always been everyone should show ID.

 

Abortion - the same amount of women that find the GOP's stance against abortion offending you have women that find the Pro-Abortion stance offending so this one's a wash. I don't see how it could possible be perceived as making the GOP only for rich old white guys. The Black Community is the biggest victim of the the Abortion Business. Abortion clinics are always in minority communities that's by design so if anyone is looking to reduce the minority population you can DIRECTLY associate that with the Abortion Business.

 

Leadership - Absolutely 100% correct, the GOP is the least diversified party in the American Political system. I think there's some change in that coming but honestly the leadership is so stuck on big social government and foreign expansion it's driving many away from the party.

 

Deregulation - I know we're going to disagree here and that's ok I get where you're coming from. However consider this from 2002-2007 during the meat of the Bush administration minority ownership of business grew by 46.5% and female ownership of business grew by 20.1%. Bush did plenty of stuff I don't like but like most republicans he was pretty big on Deregulating what he could where he could.

 

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases...0-107.html

 

I still argue deregulation HELPS minorities and women more than anything. Yes big corporations are easy targets to point at and examples why we need SOME regulation, but when you give people the freedom and ability to excel you have more small business and that's the lifeblood of the American economy. Mom and Pop shops are the ones hurt by regulation, they don't have the lobbyist in Washington buying off politicians so they can be exempt.

 

Minimum Wage - probably the most destructive form of legislation against the poor. Regardless of race or gender the minimum wage drives inflation and only leads to more automation of entry level jobs.

 

Immigration - when Democrats push for state sponsored scholarships for illegals, welfare for illegals, and all for the sole purpose of planting the seed of voter loyalty down the road they're taking from the working poor already in America. The more scholarships given to illegal immigrants is less money for the working poor and minority community already here. The more welfare spent on illegal immigration is less welfare for the working poor already here. So many of the jobs that where once available to the working poor are now exclusively held by illegal immigrants working for cash under the table. At one point in time construction was a GREAT opportunity for low skilled workers to learn a trade and work up the economic ladder. Same goes for the lawn service industry, landscaping, flooring, and so on. The Democrats deliberate creation of a shadow economy (that's the inevitable result of illegal immigration) is a direct assault on the minority communities.

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