I haven’t felt compelled to write an article since November 7th 2016—Today I am saddened by the ginned up racial strife running rampant in our nation.
After the 2016 elections resulting in a win for President Trump and republican majorities in the House and Senate—New York Times editor Toni Monkovic and election’s analyst Nate Cohn published a lightly edited transcript of their written exchange on the subject.
Therein they echoed the same rather narrative destroying fact the pundits on the right offered to explain the stunning Trump campaign win. Namely—the same white working-class voters who voted for President Obama in droves, actually supported Donald Trump during the last cycle. This exchange is salient:
Toni The fact that they voted for Obama, you wrote, suggested that racism wasn’t the primary reason that so many of these voters chose Trump. But there’s a counterargument that Trump made an explicit appeal to racial/ethnic resentment (which John McCain and Mitt Romney did not). And white nationalism has been a rising force in recent years, not just in the United States.
Nate Well, I think I’d make two points. One is that racism might be the animating feature of Trump’s base, but may not be the way that he expanded his appeal to the voters who often support Democrats on economics.
The other thing I’d say is that I think it’s possible for racism to play a role, even for Obama voters: You could imagine, for instance, that these voters may have liked Obama but may have real reservations about demographic changes, or they may have perceived Trump as “on their side” in part because of racial appeals. I think, though, that making racism the core of the reason Trump won the election is probably oversimplifying things. As I said, I think Democrats have to grapple with the importance of the Obama-Trump voter, and I think that applies on race as well.
One other thing: Both Trump and Obama made white working-class voters feel a little better about racial anxiety.
The left, especially the media, want desperately to infuse race into an issue where it is most likely not playing as large a role as desired. The left thrives on identity politics! Be it the local democrat politicians vying for city, state level positions, or the national political stage, together with the mainstream media—there is no argument without a root sunk deep in the soil of division. Black, white, gay, straight, rich, poor… there must be grievance.
With all their talk of diversity and tolerance, the left cannot envision, nor abide the idea of an America whose majority white citizens may in fact have embraced Dr. King’s “Content of character ideal” when they chose to tacitly support President Barrack H. Obama…twice. Let alone the idea these same citizens voting for a non-establishment, “Hope and “Change” agent for two previous cycles, may not have liked the changes wrought and saw Trump as a counterbalancing non-establishment change agent in the last elections. It has to be racism.
The racial friction so keenly felt contemporaneously in America is an ember steadily stoked over the last ten years with great care. On the stump in 2007 we heard candidate Obama’s unity soaked soaring rhetoric:
In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope. In the face of a politics that's shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long, you believe we can be one people, reaching for what's possible, building that more perfect union.”
And:
It was here, in Springfield, where North, South, East and West come together that I was reminded of the essential decency of the American people - where I came to believe that through this decency, we can build a more hopeful America.
He then went on to eight years of calling America “Arrogant” and “Dismissive”—never missing the opportunity to play up every incident in America as a struggle between one group or another. You can’t begin a statement with: “Too many feel…” as often as President Obama did without seeking to play up differences. Thesis, antithesis, leading to a desired leftist synthesis. You create a crisis so you can be the deliverer.
Presidents Clinton and W. Bush were no less, or no more embattled than President Obama, it's the nature of the beast—Only when the opposition targets a minority, or a woman is the destructive specter of race or fill-in-the-blank identity politics raised. You cannot object to leftist policy without some appeal to one’s inner bigotry don’t you know?
This is the soul of Hegelian dialectics—If Saul Alinsky is the high priest responsible for President Obama and to an even greater degree Hillary Clinton’s leftist catechism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was the god Alinsky served. Hitler used it in his rise to power, releasing his brown shirts into the world to wreak the havoc he would then remedy.
It was signaled by Mr. Obama’s initial Chief of Staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Hegel’s philosophy was to be employed in the United States in earnest, when he made the statement: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
It is important to note, the above statement was made in context of the financial crisis, created by the collapse of the GSEs. The same entities the democrats argued were so healthy when President Bush and other republicans pleaded with the democrat law makers year after year to reign in and regulate before disaster struck.
Have you taken a look at Mayor Emanuel’s Chiraq lately, one can’t help but wonder with a sense of genuine foreboding what awaits the once proud “City of the Big Shoulders.”
The media began this present-time racial crisis with the false narrative surrounding George Zimmerman, painting him as a virulent anti-black, profiling racist in the incident leading to the death of Trayvon Martin. All done with clever editing of the 911 call Zimmerman made—It was somehow lost NBC was forced to offer an apology to Mr. Zimmerman who is nevertheless labeled a hate filled murderer.
Then they advanced the false “Hands up, don’t shoot” exploiting the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson… Re-imagining America into a land where innocent black folks are shot by white cops willy nilly as a matter of course. Black Lives Matter is created and funded by powerful puppet masters.
Now we find, Jason Kessler, the man credited with organizing the Alt-Right protest, the racial crisis du jour, which lead to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. It seems Kessler was an Obama supporter. He voted for him twice and had gone to at least one Occupy Wall Street event. A woman lost her life in the madness, a sacrifice to please Hegel.
As I stated above, the right has correctly pointed out most of the voters who supported Trump, were erstwhile Obama voters disillusioned with his version of Hope and Change and his focus on identity politics. You can only call the white folks who voted for the first black President racist for so long before they grow…resentful.
You do not get to be President of the United States without overwhelming support from white America. This plays hob with the narrative painting President Trump and the people who voted for him as racists and most of all, the republican party, conservatism and anything to the right of Squeaky Fromme intrinsically ipso facto racist.
The democrats as Obama apologists, chafe whenever Mr. Obama is referenced as a divisive figure, not because of his race, but his and the rest of the party’s constant exploitation of identity politics. Ironically, the left leaning Snopes, in their fact check on Jason Kessler affirm the notion when they posted: “He told us (and has consistently said elsewhere) that he was an Obama supporter and voted for him. He says he began to sour on Obama and the Democrats during Obama’s second administration because of their focus on what Kessler terms “identity politics.”
Kessler is either an agent of the left, pretending to be an ersatz modern brown shirt—or a legitimate person driven over the edge by constant leftist identity politics—Neither explanation lays blame at the feet of conservatism…there is no third thing.
Having a heart for history I can’t help thinking of the Weimar Republic, the Reds fighting the Brown Shirts in the streets of Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, locked in a struggle to control the left in a weary Germany… Today, we watch groups like Antifa vying against the so-called Alt-Right, both claiming to represent what is best for the United States of America—The same dance, the same piper, the same aftermath?
We are being manipulated the media is the left’s most powerful tool. Preying on you, identifying you as a victim of one kind or another. Black vs white, man vs woman, gay vs straight—bound by forces with one aim, strife and conflict leading to the demise of the greatest nation in the history of the world. Spoiled by envy and hatred fomented by those who despise liberty and feed on chaos. Resist!
Mark 3:
23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
Digital Publius
