i can imagine the protests scared a bunch of rubes.
If ur in a poor community i can imagine "becoming a cop" might be a solution to you, i mean i hear that reason a lot from minority law enforcement.
Also like, between warehouse worker, fast food, cable guy, construction, maybe COP might be more respectable and "worth" doing iunno
im just trying to reconcile personal experience with various minorities voting for Trump against the pervailing wisdom.
Im saying that while what youre saying is true. I think people can acknolwedge that but I also think when you threaten peoples own class interest, cops who are minorities, they and their families can buck back and atleast vote reactionary
It's easy, your personal experience wasn't representative of what's happening. You don't have to draw generalizations from an individual experience. In fact, that's a bad thing to do when you're trying to understand the world.
the other explanation by itself doesnt do enough for me though.
Why would people choiced to vote between bland and racist choose racist? Why wouldnt they just not vote
It doesn't have to do anything for you though. The universe doesn't care what does it for you. Some people view voting as a duty, and abstaining is bad.
I mean yes but if so, saying that Biden is boring and neoliberal cant just be the default answer like it seems to be around here
Its just the popular one here bc were lefties
I didn't say it was because Biden is boring and a neoliberal. I gave you an answer based on materialism. And what we're talking about here is a small increase for Trump, who lost the election. It's not like there was a huge shift in demographics. The majority of marginalized groups still went for Biden or stayed home. We had record voter turnout this year though, so not as many people stayed home. Probability wise, it's more likely that most of the minority groups who know cops voted for Biden or stayed home.
If you want to theorycraft or have a hot take about politics, you can, but don't make this inconsequential argument the hill you die on. Even if you're 100% correct, what does it mean? Like are we supposed to all become cops so those people care about us? You're just trying really hard to make this argument work for very little payoff.
Yeah not saying that’s not a factor, but there’s other overarching issues that explain why marginalized people switched. Including Trump spreading tons of propaganda that he’s interested in providing better material conditions to them and their families. i.e. giving money to HBCUs, the platinum plan, and commuted a few people’s prison sentences.