Sunday, June 03, 2012
In February 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said
America is a “nation of cowards” on race because we don’t talk about it. So let’s
talk about it.
Voter ID
Progressives are up in arms over the prospect of voters
being required to show something at the polls they must show regularly to
function as a productive member of society – a photo ID. It’s because
progressives, particularly progressive Democrats, have a vested interest in
preventing as many people as possible, especially minorities, from becoming
productive members of society.
Productive members of society – and those who aspire to
be – don’t need or want government to do for them what they can do for themselves.
The socialists, communists, fascists and anarchists – in other words,
progressives – obviously don’t have the support to win elections. They must
find many votes beyond their core supporters to survive. So they attempt to
manipulate minorities.
They play the race card. They attempt to convince them
Republicans, particularly conservatives, are racists.
Never mind only a few generations ago, it was Democrats
who were lynching black people in the South, turning water cannons on them,
toying with the idea of using eugenics to eliminate them and, always, trying to
prevent them from voting. Since the party of slavery couldn’t own the bodies of
black people anymore, it turned to trying to own their minds.
And votes. In the last 50 years, progressives have become
quite interested in minority votes as the popularity of their message has
waned. They pushed for a web of government dependence to entangle minorities –
direct subsidies of just enough money to encourage complacency, public housing
that serves as a staging ground for continuing criminal enterprises, an
education system that coddles and babysits but does not, no matter how much
money is sunk into it, educate, and, from their leaders, the soul-crushing
rhetoric of victimhood and entitlement. Utopia is only an election cycle away –
if we can get rid of those damn Republicans.
How else to explain how U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.,
has been in office since 1965? It certainly isn’t because he has helped his
district in Detroit. It looks like a nuclear bomb went off … twice. You can
tell what it used to be when you drive through, and it’s sad. There is no one
in that district not named Conyers whose life is better off since he assumed
office, yet he’s re-elected by overwhelming margins every two years. Why?
They vote Democrat because they are told Republicans will
only make things worse. Never told – or asked – is how things truly could be
worse. But it’s folly to seek logic in irrational thought.
Which brings us back to voter ID laws.
Holder told a group of black preachers this week the push
in some states to require a government-issued ID to vote constituted an assault
on minority voting rights. He seemed unconcerned about protecting the integrity
of that right.
Holder claims requiring a photo ID to vote would
disenfranchise minorities disproportionately…somehow. MSNBC harps on this point
relentlessly, and progressives from Rev. Al Sharpton to U.S. Rep. John Lewis,
D-Ga., equate voter ID laws with a return to Jim Crow. But why? Do these
progressives fear their partners in democracy are too stupid to obtain a
driver’s license or state-issued photo ID?
The sad part is the rhetoric surrounding this issue
figures only to get worse.
Get real, progressives. Almost everyone has a photo ID
these days. You have to have one to deal with banks, stores, school registrars,
property managers, traffic cops and with the HR people where you work.
Progressives should be encouraging minorities to get IDs, not concocting
excuses so they don’t have to. A few years ago, they demanded illegal aliens
have access to drivers’ licenses. Was that Jim Crow? Only if you want to keep
those people lashed to the ship of government dependency.
There’s no upward mobility in that plan. You can’t even
move across the street. You’re just stuck where you are, where your parents
were, where your children will be. But you’ll keep voting for Democrats because
there will always be “leaders” who you view as having the job of helping you
telling you the alternative is worse.
Democrats know upward mobility is not their friend. Even
the prospect of it threatens their power structure. That’s why they don’t want
you having a photo ID. It’s crucial to helping you improve your life on your
own. And if you can improve your life on your own, you don’t need them or
anything they’re selling.
If vote fraud is such an insignificant thing – as
progressives falsely claim – then why not root it out completely? Because the
party that always seems to ensure the polls in St. Louis stay open just long
enough to get right amount of votes to pull out close elections at the 11th
hour, or miraculously finds forgotten “lost” votes in car trunks or offices
after the number needed to win is known has no interest ensure the integrity of
our “sacred” right to vote. They need Mickey Mouse and the offensive line of
the Dallas Cowboys on the rolls in every jurisdiction.
Because they want to win. And they’re willing to do
anything to win.
They will cheat the process they hold so dear. They will oppress the people they claim to champion. They will spend $10 trillion on the war on poverty and make not a dent in the poverty rate.
Because it’s not the defeat of poverty they seek. It’s
political power. Their ideas won’t win elections, so their bought votes must.
Progressives Can’t Help Themselves
This Holy Grail of race-baiting politics causes
discussions of politics to veer from constructive to avoidance. I got into a
discussion on Twitter this week with MSNBC contributor and professor Karen
Hunter (no relation, but her first reply jokingly told me I needed to change my
last name) about her comment that Mitt Romney wants to be “president of
Caucasiastan.”
I know the folly of engaging with someone whose first
move is the race card, but I proceeded anyway.
After she acknowledged Rev. King’s dream was everyone
being treated equally, she claimed to be the culmination of that dream, adding
“which is why I know that Mitt’s vision of America is a nightmare for folks of
color.” She didn’t explain why.
Karen also wondered whether I think “Romney cares about
or even understands the needs of black/brown Americans?” Telling that Karen
Hunter thinks “black/brown Americans” have special needs and need special
attention, that certain Americans can’t thrive on their own, that they need the
government that has served them so well these many years.
In just a few tweets, Hunter played every stereotypical
card of a progressive. When she ran out, she ran out (she blocked me for
pointing out that a terrible economy knows no race). But not before firing off
the ever-thoughtful “Mitt just wants to be POTUS. He doesn’t actually care @
the people. We have more problems than the economy.”
Yes, we do – starting with progressives who embrace and
foster division, envy and hatred. They push ideas that have failed everywhere
because they believe those ideas failed only because they weren’t the ones
implementing them.
But most of all they embrace race.
A progressive will look at someone, assess the amount of
pigment in their skin and determine how that person should think and vote. Hell
hath no fury like that of progressives when someone of color who dares stray
from their pigmentally assigned expectations. Just ask Clarence Thomas.
The Way Out Is Up
Progressives talk about “social justice” and “leveling
the playing field” – deep-sounding but meaningless platitudes meant only to
distract. But they won’t acknowledge the fact their policies, their actions,
are what caused the playing field to look like Dresden in the first place.
They ignore the starting line, where everyone is equal,
and fixate on the finish line, when there isn’t one. It’s exactly what you’d do
if you trying to make sure no one wins and convince people the deck is stacked
against them.
That’s because what progressives want is power –
government power, their power – and they have no problem using race baiting to
steer votes their way.
Even if voter fraud were as rare as progressives claim,
the real fraud is when they tell large chunks of the population their destiny
is determined by their skin tone. A photo ID won’t set anyone free, but it is a
passport to a society that values work, rewards diligence and offers an upward
path. Progressives can’t have that because those who choose that path are
significantly less likely to vote progressive.
Karen Hunter ended the last tweet listed above with the
hashtag “#racematters.” She’s right, it does. To racists. That explains why
it’s the obsession of progressives.
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