Top mind thinks Blacks vote Democrats only to get more stuff.

I wonder how this person explains Black voters solidly supporting the Republicans for close to a century despite them betraying Reconstruction and thus burying the prospect of giving ex-slaves the most momentous "stuff" of all: forty acres and a mule.

Evidently it isn't simply "more stuff." If it were, Black people would have voted for, say, the Progressive Party in 1948 whose platform went much farther than both parties in terms of opposing racism and providing "stuff" in general. Instead Black voters went with what they considered the lesser evil against what they figured was a hopeless candidate (Henry Wallace), support of whom they feared would leave Black people isolated from both Democrats and Republicans.

We saw a similar thing at work earlier this year when Black voters generally preferred Biden over Sanders, even though the latter was obviously promising more than the former.

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When a white person votes for Trump because he promised lower taxes and to protect their jobs, isn't that just voting republicans to get more stuff?

Not a conspiracy theory, just a dumb take. Removed.