To expand and deepen a study by Achen
and Bartels on the way people vote (as reported in Chronicles, July
2016) by applying the sociobiological studies of
Edward Wilson and
others, it is true that in democracies people do not first vote by
individual rational judgment as we are told, they vote by racial,
ethnic, class and religious group. But it is not usually reported
that group voting is first based in the group-selection of related
genes, that is, in the kin and racial preferences of basic human
nature, which has always been the most successful means of survival
and reproduction, even for individuals, over the long history of human beings.
So it is a “sentimental falsehood”
that individualism ensures the will of the majority, people don't
vote that way. Democracy cannot really be “cured” by more
democracy. Conflict between groups is what really drives even individualistic democracies. That is how people really vote in a democracy.
This affirms the perspective of
ethnopluralism, protected by federalism, at least in the U. S., where
the constitutional separation of powers and states could be applied
to regions and states designed for racial and ethnic cultures. Most
importantly this social behavior is in line with real human nature,
which suggests that better social harmony is built around protected
ethnostates.
As people have said,
this means that Trump will take the white vote and Hillary will take the
non-white vote, and the religious and class vote will be split
between them. But what is not said is that this voting is based on
competing ethnic groups and cultures.
Demographics defined this way
really is destiny. And how are things going based on breeding and immigration patterns today?
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