Many people try hard to say that racists such as Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling are an aberration. That all is ok in America now, really; after all we have the black president now, twice actually, so it must be true, racism must be dead in America. What is true is that in the last two presidential elections enough non-racist Americans of all races voted and fortunately outnumbered the racists that voted. Certainly not the same as racism is in the past. One only has to look at gerrymandering to see the current strength of racism and bigotry in America. There doesn’t seem to be much debate, republicans do have the smaller party, yet they totally dominate the House. Despite getting fewer popular votes in the last election, because of gerrymandered districts they maintained control of the House. If you contort the districts to concentrate the bigots and dilute the non-bigots in the correct proportions you can steal the prize, it’s math not democracy. Not very honorable but then honor is not the objective; power, control, and ultimately money is the objective. Regardless of district manipulations it still takes a real boat load of bigots to pull this off; a handful of left-overs from a mythical by-gone era won’t cut it. Republicans understand well the potential inherent in bigotry. They already have the rich folks but to stack the numbers they really need they cultivate these bigots like sand in oysters. And bigots are an easy mark; they are so consumed with their hate for the “others” that they can even be openly lead to vote against their own self interests. And the media really needs to stop referring to these congressional republicans as ideologues. It’s dishonest and makes them (the media) complicit in promoting the scam. Call them what they are, hard core strategists protecting their individual revenue streams for as long as they possibly can. This is classic hair on the knuckles. The country be damned, the constituents be damned, it’s business, it’s about staying flush. I get it, I wish I was flush. Now if we were to follow the logic of black president = racism dead we would have to conclude that if Hillary wins the presidency then wife/girlfriend beatings in the US will cease and desist, that girls and women will no longer be sold into sex slavery in the US, that pay for women will no longer be less than that of a man, blah, blah, blah.
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Tags: Congress, Elections, Gerrymandering, Hillary Clinton, Media, Racism, republicans
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Racism Alive and Well
23 MayMany people try hard to say that racists such as Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling are an aberration. That all is ok in America now, really; after all we have the black president now, twice actually, so it must be true, racism must be dead in America. What is true is that in the last two presidential elections enough non-racist Americans of all races voted and fortunately outnumbered the racists that voted. Certainly not the same as racism is in the past. One only has to look at gerrymandering to see the current strength of racism and bigotry in America. There doesn’t seem to be much debate, republicans do have the smaller party, yet they totally dominate the House. Despite getting fewer popular votes in the last election, because of gerrymandered districts they maintained control of the House. If you contort the districts to concentrate the bigots and dilute the non-bigots in the correct proportions you can steal the prize, it’s math not democracy. Not very honorable but then honor is not the objective; power, control, and ultimately money is the objective. Regardless of district manipulations it still takes a real boat load of bigots to pull this off; a handful of left-overs from a mythical by-gone era won’t cut it. Republicans understand well the potential inherent in bigotry. They already have the rich folks but to stack the numbers they really need they cultivate these bigots like sand in oysters. And bigots are an easy mark; they are so consumed with their hate for the “others” that they can even be openly lead to vote against their own self interests. And the media really needs to stop referring to these congressional republicans as ideologues. It’s dishonest and makes them (the media) complicit in promoting the scam. Call them what they are, hard core strategists protecting their individual revenue streams for as long as they possibly can. This is classic hair on the knuckles. The country be damned, the constituents be damned, it’s business, it’s about staying flush. I get it, I wish I was flush. Now if we were to follow the logic of black president = racism dead we would have to conclude that if Hillary wins the presidency then wife/girlfriend beatings in the US will cease and desist, that girls and women will no longer be sold into sex slavery in the US, that pay for women will no longer be less than that of a man, blah, blah, blah.
Power To The People
Tags: Congress, Elections, Gerrymandering, Hillary Clinton, Media, Racism, republicans