On Politics and the Fourth Estate: Toppling a Presidency, with Race (final)
Indeed, I’m now glad I waited as the Media no longer is trying to even pretend that the new narrative is that the President isn’t “stable” and needs to have a special committee to decide his competence. This is not a joke, unfortunately. This is an actual piece of legislation floated by a Democrat from Maryland, Jamie Raskin – and it has, at least according to this piece, a couple of dozen co-sponsors. Without the slightest bit of irony, “The Blaze” reports that “…two dozen Democrats have signed onto Raskin’s bill as co-sponsors, including former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Rep. John Conyer (D-Mich.).”
Wait a minute, where have I heard that Schultz name before…? Oh, yes. That’s right. Debbie Wasserman Schultz – the complete fucking cheat who got caught working for the Clinton campaign while supposed running an unbiased primary between Clinton and Bernie Sanders. This is the same woman who was coordinating with the Clinton campaign’s lawyer on responses to CNN’s quotes from Bernie Sanders. Important note: the lawyer advises Wasserman Schultz/DNC to publicly LIE and say that Bernie’s accusations of the DNC working against him are “completely false[.]” . And the lawyer says this without the least bit of appreciation that as he is typing the words, he is proving the Sanders’ claims true. No one was disbarred or otherwise sanctioned at all for any of this… but, of course, it’s all okay because the emails were HAACCKKEEDDDDD!!!!!
Now, in light of those revelations, one would think that the democrats would be anxious to clean up these accusations that they’re nothing more than an arm of the Clinton campaign. So, of course, they appointed whom behind Wasserman-Schultz…? Clearly it would be time for some new blood, for the party to insist on someone with clean ethics and no ties to Clinton… EHHHHHH. Wrong Answer. Wasserman-Schultz’s deputy was Donna Brazile. Wait, not that Donna Brazile?!? Isn’t she the woman who fed Hillary Clinton at least two of the debate questions in advance of the debates with Bernie?? Yes. Then lied about it. Then got hired on by the Clinton campaign after she got caught in October of 2017. Of course, none of that matters because… the emails were HAAACCCKKKEEDDDDD!!!!
That the reporters involved all appear to have been lying no longer matters because a Democrat in the White House means the mainstream media is in fact the propaganda arm of the government. For example, as of 2013 at least 24 former members of the mainstream media went to work for the Obama White House. John Podesta’s emails show that Hillary Clinton was hosting parties with members of the Press, including providing campaign talking points for them, in advance of stories being published. In one particularly egregious example, a reporter admitted he was “a hack” for allowing Podesta to edit a piece about Clinton before publication… but none of this matters, the Press tells us. None of it. Because… TRUUUUMMMMPPPPP!!!!! I should note that none of this is exclusive to the Left; right-sided politicians have tried to court the Media, as well. It’s just that given the Press’ natural left-leaning inclinations, they’re nowhere near as chummy with, for example, McCain or Romney, as they are with Obama or the Clintons. Look at this Glenn Greenwald piece from 2010, for example, pointing out how giddy major Media members were at being invited for a watergun fight with the Vice President. Not an ounce of professional embarrassment or shame from one of them.
Which brings us to the current state of affairs, with the Media calling Trump a racist. There was a time when calling someone a racist in public discourse was considered “beyond the pale.” That day, however, is long past. It has become a staple of the Democratic party’s political attack machinery, regardless of whether the person who is running is, you know, anything even close to being an actual racist. The Clinton camp started that narrative about Trump during the election. Likewise, when Mitt Romney was running against a democrat (Obama), the Press claimed that he was a racist… And the same for McCain/Palin before him… which would make one think that we should be pretty inured to this by now… but not when the entire Press Corps is a surrogate for the Democratic party. What the Public gets is 24-hour nonstop propagandizing about the racism of the opposing political candidate.
Much of this was fueled by an article published after Obama was elected in 2012, which was carried far and wide, about the “demographic inevitability” of a “New Progressive Era” in US politics.
What may have otherwise been a routine Census Bureau report from May 17, 2012, heralded the emergence of a different America: For the first time in the country’s history, whites were a minority of the roughly four million babies in the United States born in the period between July 2010 and July 2011.
While the white share of the presidential electorate in 1992 was nearly 90 percent, it will likely fall to less than 70 percent in 2016. In only a quarter-century, this fact alone has meant a net shift of about 12 points to Democrats since Bill Clinton won the White House by five points. Donald Trump’s harsh nativist slanders have certainly worsened a problem that already led to Obama beating Mitt Romney 73 to 27 percent among Latinos in 2012. Pat Buchanan’s nightmare that his country would be non-white will arrive about 2043. Then America will look—and vote—like California.
“How America’s Political Trends Favor Democrats in 2016 and Beyond,” by Mark Green, Apr. 7, 2016, in “The New Republic.” I wouldn’t normally rub salt in the wounds of my enemies, but this is too good not to post: the subtitle was, “We may be in the midst of a New Progressive Era, with a semi-realignment coming this November.” Ahhhhh….damn, I wonder if he committed suicide after Trump won?
As always, people will believe their own bullshit, right up until Reality leaves a giant turd in your Life’s Punchbowl. All of the talk after the election was about “How could Hillary have lost Joe Six-Pack?” Indeed. “How could Hillary lose those faithful democrat-union voters in Wisconsin and Ohio??” Hmm. Bewildering. There’s another aspect to this that the Democrats miss because they don’t want to see it, but it turns out that once you’re one or two generations into the immigrant experience, immigrants don’t vote their skin color so much any more. i.e. It’s largely a matter of economics and thus has been studied by economists. Successful Mexican immigrants, for example, who own property… guess what? They don’t like people coming into the country illegally, either, even if the immigrants are from their former country; and they’re none-too-keen on people who get paid for doing nothing, as well. In other words, although demographically we may be changing, successful immigrants who make their way into the middle-class tend to vote about the same as other (i.e. white) middle-class voters, but I digress.
What strikes me as particularly ironic about all of this is how Democrats can claim that what’s happening is Trump’s fault, rather than the being the predictable result of years and years of the Left’s own political playbook: dividing people up into identity groups, typically by skin-color or other perceived political/cultural/social victim-status, and encouraging these “out-groups” to unite against… well, when you’ve got no one else to blame, blame the majority – white people! Of course, typically you hear the Left demonizing a specific kind of “white person” – read as: Southerners. This is considered acceptable political gamesmanship as the Dems no longer see the South as possibly winnable, so it is perfectly acceptable to present all Southerners as strawmen stereotypes, bogeyman to be trotted out at each election to scare minorities of any stripe.
Unfortunately, however, the Left’s footsoldiers have painted with too wide a brush, so we have an entire language now that includes terms like “white privilege” or “mansplaining” or “white-splaining” or “cishetero_____” (whatever) and on and on. In short, the Left created an entire vocabulary for demonizing the majority of (white) people in this country. At least, the last time I checked demographically, whites still made up the overwhelming majority of the US populace, and voting populace. So now, perhaps, what we’re seeing is that white people have started to wise up to the reality of what electoral politics really is – and the Democrats had better hope that white folks in America don’t start seeing themselves as Whites – Discrete Victim Group (and who should vote as such).
Here’s a theory that no one seems comfortable hearing, particularly not the Dems and its Media lackeys in their echo chamber, but maybe “Joe Six-Pack” got tired of being called a racist by the people he’s been voting for? Poor white people, and even lower middle-class and solid blue-collar white folks, have a lot more in common with the average black person than they do with upper middle-class white suburbanites. In other words, maybe all of that white guilt that seems to be stock issue among upper-class liberal douchebags from either coast doesn’t necessarily quite pertain as well to their not-quite-so-reliable-blue collar voter, who is likely striving to be or maintain their middle class existence against a lot of forces that seem to be taking a shit on them, particularly in the form of their old political party (Dems) and their government – both of whom have predicated everything they do on the White Man’s Original Sin – Slavery.
Now, I hate having to even go into this, because it’s embarrassing that here we are in the 2000s and we still can’t seem to move beyond race, but we need a brief history refresher. I don’t know what bullshit history their teaching in school these days, but I know it was headed south when my girls graduated some years ago. Regardless, I think I’m on safe ground in asserting that we all know that the Civil War was not a black uprising, a slave’s rebellion, that overthrew the yoke of slavery… Because that would be complete bullshit. More importantly, it would denigrate the memory of an entire generation of white men, from every walk of life, but overwhelmingly blue collar, who joined and marched against – in some cases – even their own family, over the issue of Slavery. The current Union death toll of 360,222 has recently been revised upward, as has the overall death toll for the Civil War. No matter what the count, it is inarguable that the overwhelming majority of wounded and dead were these allegedly “privileged” white males (Patriarchy!!!) who marched willingly to battle on behalf of black men and women. Anyone want to tell them to “check their privilege?” The Revisionists on both sides who want to rewrite that War, in both cases to make themselves feel better, are just another specie of that special “Stolen Valor” ilk – people who claim they went to war and won awards for bravery and other acts when they did no such thing. Men (and women) looking to ride on the good will reserved for those who actually have “been there and done that.”
There were all black regiments, as well – 168 according to historians – filled with Great Men who believed that it was essential that blacks join in the cause for their own Liberty and be willing to lay down their lives. Those men all are Heroes of the first order… and so are the white men who marched took the field at the bloodbath that was Antietam, where 2100 Union soldiers died, alongside 1500 Confederates, another 9,550 Union soldiers were wounded, many of whom likely would also die from sepsis and other infections to their wounds, or at best face life-altering injuries, at a time when physical labor was the norm, not the exception. The numbers are stark and cannot be forgotten as we appear to be in the worst era of race relations since the 1970s, something I had thought we left behind.
Unfortunately, however, the Left and its Press lapdogs have cast this die and we are all in the aftermath of the Neo-Racial Media Era. It utterly dominates academe and has worked its way into virtually every aspect of our lives. You think tearing down Civil War statues looks more like book-burning than it does some serious public issue? Racist. You believe that there shouldn’t be governmental or private preferences for anyone based upon skin color or identification in some minority group? Racist. In short, it’s now racist to have objective, principled values, morals, or standards for all human beings. Check your privilege – because the Washington and Media elite say so… And anything that stands in the way of that needs to be attacked, impeached, or imprisoned. Or maybe all of the above.