Miscellaneous
The problem with numbers is that they can be quite dehumanizing. Behind the statistics they are people, these people that end up in cages, the ones that end up dead after mere interactions with the police, the ones that end up dead after mere interaction with their fellow citizens. The ones with the ghetto names, the ones with the foreign names, the ones with names you can’t pronounce those people are the bedrock of the big tent. They have witnessed the impact of the subprime loans, the stop and frisks, the fiscally conservative and the tough on law and order approaches. I don’t think they will keep going for it and if they don’t who will the democrats be? Will the party of the big tent eventually service all its stakeholders or will it continue to maximize return for the shareholders? Time shall tell.