> If you consider democrats liberal then perhaps you could help me understand why 88% of african-americans voted for Hillary?
Different priorities. A lot of astronauts and NASA scientists don't believe in anthropogenic nature of climate change. Are they backward, anti-reason, anti-science religious individuals? Perhaps you can help me understand why?
>Meanwhile, the working class remain staunchly conservative.
This flies in the face of the facts surrounding who voted for who in the last election - if you consider Democrats to be liberal. What different priorities do you feel the generally worse-off working class minorities in America have?
The long- (since at least Clinton's "Third Way" politics in the early 1990s) dominant faction (and the one whose standard-bearer won the nominating contest) of the Democratic Party is center-right.
While that's less right-wing than the Republican Party, the Republican nominee was a political outsider that deliberately—alongside some fairly explicit endorsements of some far-right and extreme nationalist positions, to be sure—largely adopted vague language filled with direct appeals to liberal values and interest groups, and specifically targeted those dissillusioned by the progressive defeat by the center-right faction of the Democratic Party. (This kind of ambiguity and rhetorical gesture to the left has substantial precedent from the authoritarian right.)
I also wouldn't broadly say that Democrats are liberal. I think most political dichotomies contain broad churches. As a result I also think claims that x political view is derived from y quality of those people are simple and clumsy ways of attempting to understand the world.
<The group, which includes seven Apollo astronauts and two former directors of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, are dismayed over the failure of NASA, and specifically the Goddard Institute For Space Studies (GISS), to make an objective assessment of all available scientific data on climate change.>
So when you say "a lot", what you mean to say is that 7 astronauts did. That's equivalent to 15% of active astronauts who are currently active or 2% from the total amount of astronauts ever active.
Remember my question isn't, "Since these NASA scientists say that Climate change isn't real, therefore it isn't real". So don't try to answer THAT question.
Its frankly incredibly odd that you're seeing this question you've posed as the focus of discussion. Your initial claim was that the working class is "staunchly conservative". Your question doesn't change that claim.
Setting aside the blatant snide in your first question, he already answered it. In the US, one of the groups that are seemingly deemed inferior by the Republicans is the African-Americans. African-Americans are very well aware of that, and as such prefer the Democrats who rally for racial equality. At least for the most part...
The fact that african-americans, who are demographically typically more "working-class" than other groups, voted that way directly contradicts his claim that the working class is "staunchly conservative". Obviously it isn't as simple as that.
Also do you consider unions to be liberal?