I'm With Her...but is Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party with us?

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3. It seems the problem is Dems have had to water down the positive parts of these bills and programs

because of more conservative electorates and legislatures that are more interested in locking up black and brown people, forcing them to choose between passing them with the poison pills or getting nothing. So why these histories give me pause (and that 20%ish of Black voters who voted against Hillary, for example, is looking straight at that), they may be products less of individual political tendencies, and more of the socio-political conditions of the time that cause these bills slanted away from addressing the root causes of crime, and towards locking up more black and brown people. Luckily, I think we can be more hopeful because of several factors:

- Black and brown people have MUCH more voting power and that power will only increase
- White Democrats are considerably more liberal than they were in 1994 or even 2010
- The Clinton/Kaine ticket will own POC big big big favors.

Unfortunately, the system is slanted in a way that even trying to respond to the wants and needs of POC will often turn against either those POC, or other POC.