Mayor in West Virginia resigns after racist Michelle Obama post

[JayJayH 546]

I'm under the impression that the left has gotten drawn into some sort of obsession over skin color, gender and a deeper, darker abyss of identity politics. I'm also under the impression that while the left won the culture wars of the early 2000s, the left is about to lose the current culture war in a backlash against overreach. Same-sex marriage is a fact. It's the law of the land. Done. Settled. Perhaps if we gave it some time and stopped hectoring local bakeries about gay wedding cakes, it would actually benefit the LGBT cause in the long term. Likewise, your economic message might not fall in good taste with some, when you use your index finger to shame people into using pronouns that never existed in any dictionary before.

I wouldn't normally quote the National Review, but if the GOP would have listened to liberals when their establishment candidates were more concerned about conversion therapy than their Wall Street connections, perhaps Donald Trump wouldn't be the head of their party today. But nevermind Trump. If the Democratic Party listened to conservatives a bit more, perhaps they wouldn't be the current minority in both houses of Congress as well as most of the country's state legislatures and governorships.

It's never okay to call a black person an "ape." This mayor's political career is thankfully over because of it, and I think very few people, left or right, are going to protest that. But this is elementary.

White, working-class, union household voters in the Midwest used to be the Dems' bread and butter. This year, the same group of voters helped carry Donald Trump to victory. I'm not saying social issues should not be on the agenda - They should. But you don't win anything when you spend half your campaign subtly calling your base 'racist xenophobic bigots' while telling them to stop whining because they have 'privilege.' Rather than win, you're catering to a growth in white nationalism and right-wing populism. This is exactly what happened in Europe in the 90's. We're just a little behind in America.. But when we finally do something in America, we do it big.

If the Democratic Party continues along the road it's been going, its fate will be the same as the mainstream GOP.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442210/racism-elected-donald-trump-according-people-who-make-everything-about-race

Edited November 17, 2016 by JayJayH

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

To channel the poster formerly known as John R.

You just Sullied one the best left handed slaps ever administered on VJ

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

calling barack a zebra is racist, because he's mixed.

calling trump a baboon is accurate.

someone calling you a donkey is attempting to circumvent the word filter.

I logged on to my desktop tonight just to give you a plus one. I am still laughing

That was comic gold right there in a non smiling she devil kind of way

[Rob L 3,811]

 

oh yeah, remember back when america was all 'white people are from horse stables, all they're good for is running in circles and glue'. 

hold that thought, we are going to make America White again

Edited November 17, 2016 by Rob L

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