Saturday, February 23, 2019
Democrats are riding the backs of a new race card – much the way the
sick abolitionists did prior to the American Civil War, desperate to create a
new Civil Rights movement that is strangely twisted up with the since
discredited Black Power movement of the late 1960s.
This reverse racism (if you can actually use that term) comes at a time
when the new black power movement his flexing its muscles and has some
Democratic candidates desperate to give them anything they want – including reparations
for slavery – in order to win their vote.
This perception of white racism is largely generated by the fact that rural
America managed to win the 2016 election despite a powerful media and a
well-funded if somewhat corrupt campaign by Hillary Clinton.
The campaign is designed to sell us on the belief that a Trump victory
was a sign of renewed racism, rather than a reaction to the excesses of a
self-righteous over-eager extreme left part of the Democratic Partly seeking to
force its agenda on people rather than to convince people on the merits of
their arguments.
It would be a mistake to say African Americans are doing well in
America. They are not, and this despite the massive investment of tax payer money
in programs such as Head Start, Affirmative Action and straight out aid to struggling
cities like Paterson and Detroit.
The recent pathetic call for reparations for wrongs done against blacks
in slavery will only feed into the conservative belief that Civil Rights
programs that emerged out of the 1960s was a financial scam, designed less to expand
the opportunities of people of color than to keep them dependent on government
handouts, and to benefit Democrats who happened to own or work for those
agencies that supply those services.
This, conservatives believe, is behind the Democratic refusal to enact meaningful
and effective immigration reform, since many of those coming into the United
States – legally and illegally – are equally dependent on these services and
therefore keep the pockets of the Democrats lined with income (usually coming from
government coffers) and immigrants dependent.
Democrats hurt this cause when Bill Clinton adopted a GOP platform
which gutted the social welfare system in the 1990s, forcing people (many but
not all of color) off the public dole. This was largely the reason Clinton
managed to turn around the economy and to reduce the deficit and appeared to
create massive new jobs.
Poor people on welfare had no choice. It was the Clinton way or the
highway. But they lost more than just a monthly check. More importantly poor
people lost access to healthcare which may well be the real motivation behind
Obama’s development of Obamacare – singlehandedly creating support for any candidate
like Trump because instead of reforming insurance and medical industries, it
saddled the cost of this on the backs of working people and helped make even
more money for insurance companies, medical providers and drug companies. There
is a good reason why so many drug companies back Democratic candidates for
congress. Obama largely recreated the welfare system that Clinton gutted, and
forced ordinary people at gun point to pay for it.
Conservatives see Democratic calls for immigrant rights as self-serving
since immigrants not orange (meaning ex-offenders) are the new black, and
conservatives believe that serious immigration reform would bankrupt many of
the Democratic social services programs that need an ever-increasing number of
immigrants to thrive – paid for, not by private donations, but by tax dollars.
While the U.S. has serious issues in the way we handle immigration,
this is not exclusive to Trump – and predates him and many of his policies are
largely outgrowth of policies in place since the 1960s, but especially since
the Patriot Act of 2001. Democrats, however, have stumbled over themselves in
an attempt to reverse their own positions in order to position themselves as on
the correct side which is any side opposite Trump.
But the immigration stance is merely part of a larger strategy to
destroy the credibility of a movement that put Trump in office in the first
place, painting anyone who support Trump or the GOP as racist, ending any kind
of legitimate discussion on the merits of immigration reform.
Media continues to over-report alleged racist incidents and mass
shootings in order to help generate support for this concept of a new racist
society, much in the way media did in the lead up to the Civil War, hyping up
the rhetoric so that violence on both sides is inevitable. Media and the left
are selling the concept that the KKK, White Supremacists or even the Russians
control the GOP’s agenda rather than a legitimate concern with the extremists
on the left.
The call for reparations for slavery is one more step in an inevitable
self-fulling prophesy of renewed racism – since the more the left demands, the
more push back it will get.
But like the old absolutists, the new brand is just as pathetic since
both old and new seem to forget that white people spilled a lot of blood to
help free black people, but it was often not the abolitionist blood – Quakers and
others did not believe in conflict and so were not on the battlefield.
The current crop of abolitionists is just as phony, part of a cult that
plays up how they are still victims of society, and so cannot be held
accountable for the miserable outcomes that Democratic social reforms have
produced since the 1960s when taxpayers having been shelling out billions in
reparation in order to level the playing field.
The reparations movement – which includes Warren and Harris – acts as
if nobody did anything over the last 60 years to help make it possible for
African Americans to live the good life, when the opposite is true, and that
this Democratic need to create economic junkies out of black and immigrants
seems to be at the core of the problem, not racism. And if anyone ought to be
held accountable and needs to pay reparations, is should be the Democratic social
services that have created a new slavery.