The Black population is growing. There were 46.8 million people in the U.S. who identified as Black in 2019. The Black population has grown by more than 10 million since 2000, when 36.2 million of the country’s population identified as Black, a 29% increase over almost two decades. This population growth rate is larger than that of the White population over the same time span (13%) but less than that of the Asian and Hispanic U.S. populations (89% and 72%, respectively)

U.S. Hispanic population continued its geographic spread in ...https://www.pewresearch.org › ... › Hispanics/Latinos
3 Feb 2022 — The U.S. Hispanic population reached 62.1 million in 2020, an increase of 23% over the previous decade

64% of US adults oppose overturning Roe v. Wade, poll sayshttps://www.npr.org › 2022/05/19 › abortion-polling-roe-...
19 May 2022 — Poll: Two-thirds say don't overturn Roe; the court leak is firing up Democratic voters · Nearly two in three Americans oppose overturning Roe v.

More than 1 million voters switch to GOP in warning for Dems

WASHINGTON (AP) — A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains in recent years are becoming Republicans.

More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data analyzed by The Associated Press. The previously unreported number reflects a phenomenon that is playing out in virtually every region of the country — Democratic and Republican states along with cities and small towns — in the period since President Joe Biden replaced former President Donald Trump.

But nowhere is the shift more pronounced — and dangerous for Democrats — than in the suburbs, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump’s Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back. Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Republicans also gained ground in counties around medium-size cities such as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Augusta, Georgia; and Des Moines, Iowa.

The_Piper wrote:So basically, disinformation. The self-proclaimed patriots at Fox, Newsmax, The Ghost of Rush Limbaugh, and other right wing outlets and grifters who have a complete inability to tell an honest truth are responsible for most of the rot in this country. Needless to say, that isn't patriotism, that's betrayal. The chumps who believe that shit or pretend to believe it because it's what they want to hear aren't blameless either, of course.

Seabass wrote:*snip*

Spearthrower wrote:

Seabass wrote:*snip*

Is this some joke I've missed... or is this really Rudy Giuliani trying to make a few $$ on the side by selling shoes?

Seabass wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:

Seabass wrote:*snip*

Is this some joke I've missed... or is this really Rudy Giuliani trying to make a few $$ on the side by selling shoes?

It's not a joke. It's hilarious... but no, not a joke.

TFP has continued its ties with the political right as a participating sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference,[10] and by signing statements issued by the Heartland Institute that opposed housing finance reform legislation,[11] and discussions of climate change in comprehensive energy legislation[12] and in the State Department funding authorization.[13]

TFP Student Action is the university campus outreach of the TFP.[14] Its activities include distributing fliers and other literature on the streets of universities, sponsoring speakers on campuses, hosting student conferences, and organizing protests and petitions, especially against the provision of information about abortion and the acceptance of LGBT students at Catholic universities. Its most recent campaign is against the 96 Catholic colleges and universities that allow LGBT student groups.[15] In April 2009, volunteers of TFP Student Action traveled to the major cities of New Hampshire[16] and Maine[17] to distribute literature against same-sex marriage.

The American TFP provides the staff to run Saint Louis de Montfort Academy, a boys' boarding school in Herndon, Pennsylvania, that provides students with a traditional Catholic education.[18] It also operates Call to Chivalry summer camps, which express Oliveira's view[19] of nobility, chivalry, and the benefits of the feudal past.[20]

The Return to Order campaign is an offshoot of the US Foundation for a Christian Civilisation. In 2019, it organized a petition against the Good Omens miniseries as mocking God's wisdom and making Satanism appear normal, light and acceptable, but they targeted the petition at Netflix rather than Amazon Prime Video which distributes the series.[21] In 2021, they staged a protest at the 59th New York Film Festival due to the festival showing the Paul Verhoeven film Benedetta, which they deemed blasphemous for its portrayal of lesbianism within the confines of a convent.[22]
Criticism for virulence

The American TFP has been cited in several articles by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for their anti-LGBTQ views.[23] According to the SPLC the TFP is a "virulently anti-LGBT group".[24]

Catholic priest James Martin, referring to the American TFP and to the organisation Church Militant commented that “These online hate groups are now more powerful than local churches”.[25]

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The_Piper wrote:So basically, disinformation. The self-proclaimed patriots at Fox, Newsmax, The Ghost of Rush Limbaugh, and other right wing outlets and grifters who have a complete inability to tell an honest truth are responsible for most of the rot in this country. Needless to say, that isn't patriotism, that's betrayal. The chumps who believe that shit or pretend to believe it because it's what they want to hear aren't blameless either, of course.

Manufactured controversies.

Of course, there are some plausibly valid political differences among that list. One can think border policy is failing without being motivated by nativism, or consider the elimination of student debt 'unfair' when it uses public taxes for individual benefit.

But let's see how much impact the demolition of Roe V Wade has on these swing-voters - hard to imagine how someone can be concerned about local Dem governments mandating vaccines and not concerned about Rep ones making abortion a crime.

The_Piper wrote:
There are definitely valid differences, but these outlets have resorted to calling gay people groomers and pedophiles, and Democrats similar shit.