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Jeb Bush says Dems lure black voters with 'free stuff'

Jeb Bush told a South Carolina crowd Thursday that Democrats play to African-American voters by offering "free stuff," a similar comment to a contentious one that Mitt Romney made in the days after his 2012 loss to President Barack Obama.

He speaks to an audience that does not see Republican promises to destroy American social democracy in order to enable huge tax cuts for them as an effort to buy their votes.

So did Romney.

Interesting Bush and Romney did not make the obvious and accurate observation, often made by numerous conservative writers, that Democrats pander to and encourage black racial fears about and hostility towards whites, capitalism, America, and American institutions, as well as demands for special treatment, special programs, reparations, and so on.

Those really are the ways, and the only ways, Democrats appeal specifically and directly to blacks as such.

And Democratic support for American social democracy absolutely is not racially targeted - which is why, for example, Bernie Sanders can talk all day and all night the socialist, communist, social democrat talk while seeming to the black, feminist, and even mainstream left to be totally oblivious to their hot button issues of race and sex.

But American social democracy and the taxation of them upon which it rests, and not affirmative action for cops or the fire department, are what really annoy the GOP's rich contributors.