Racism, xenophobia and
homophobia were an underlying silent current in the GOP…Not anymore.
From the point of view of a Hispanic
like me, it is very difficult for me to regale the Republicans with even one
vote in an insignificant local election. I have always known this but some
members of minorities like blacks gays and other ethnic minorities haven’t seen
it as clearly.
This muddy juxtaposition of bigotry
and discrimination has been for the most part silent, just lying there beneath
the surface and no one would dare come out and admit to these racist,
xenophobic and homophobic biases. But it has changed…now it is out in the open
and it may work for a very limited, albeit politically active and vocal right
wing minority…but it will not work for the general population.
The United States at large has
traditionally been center right, not ever going to the radical right even
during the McCarthy years and all the communist witch-hunts that took place.
Eventually this charlatan was given his walking papers in a most humiliating
way.
The Republicans of today are facing
a similar situation; only now it is not just one crazy, radical individual but
a bunch of them and they have taken control of the narrative but also have
obtain an incredible amount of power that has forced the Republican Party so
far to the right that they are now endangering themselves and risking total
repudiation from so many minorities and from the general population as well.
Why do I say this? I have pointed
this out on many occasions, as Republicans systematically have thrown under the
boss Blacks, Hispanics, Labor Unions, Women, Seniors, the sick, LGBT Americans
and in general their opposition to having the middle class keep their place in
our society…by their attacks on all of these one wonders who the fuck will be
voting for any Republican?
We have seen
how these Presidential hopefuls have attacked one by one, a group of people or
minorities which makes their ideology diametrically opposed to who we are as a
people and what America is all about…a land of opportunity, a place of hope and
one that takes care of the meek, the weak, the poor and also provide the means
for anyone to pull himself by the bootstraps and make something of
himself/herself.
That my friends is the ever eluding
AMERICAN DREAM and it is by the actions and ideology of the Republicans that
the dream has turned into a nightmare for most of us but even more severe for
minorities…particularly with the hell-bent effort on the part of Republicans to
disenfranchise millions of minority voters.
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January 9th, 2012 by Scott and I think it expresses it best:
I think, maybe, it’s time for the
nation to rise up and point out to the Republican Party that, root and branch,
it is a racist embarrassment to democracy and blight on this nation that the
entire world can see. Whether it’s N. Leroy Gingrich’s chirping about how all
the black people are on food stamps, or Rick Santorum’s talking about the
mysterious Blah People, or this clown whom the other clowns in the Kansas House
elected to lead them, there is a steady, noxious river of bile flowing through
the entire Republican party, and through the conservative “movement” that
empowers it. It should marginalize the party to whatever back lot of hell it is
in which a cross-eyed James Earl Ray attempts to shoot an apple off the head of
Byron De La Beckwith for all eternity.
No, I don’t accept your apology, you
ignorant old fart. No, Rick, I don’t believe for a moment you meant to say
something else and it came out “Blah people,” you Bible-banging coward. Nobody’s
talking in code any more. It’s right out front there, for the entire world to
see. How dare these people? How dare their evil souls?”
For these and for so many other reasons it will be a cold
day in hell before I give a Republican my vote. Just like they have this
visceral hatred for President Obama because they can’t wrap their minds around
the idea that a black man is living in the White House…as it relates to me,
they had no beef with me as long as my mom was cleaning their houses and I was
serving their tables; but once I got that college degree I met with that
proverbial glass ceiling and 9 out of 10 they were coming from racist
Republicans.
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