Privatizate Social Security and Medicare so bankster donors can scam and suck retirees dry
Attack any programs that push America toward racial equality of opportunity, income, or wealth as "anti-white discrimination"
Ever since the 1968 election when Richard Nixon mobilized racists and white supremacists across the nation with his "Southern Strategy," the GOP has positioned itself as the party of white people. They claim to stand for the blue collar worker, the rural hunter, the country music crowd, NASCAR and wrestling fans: all are well represented in their media like Fox and their political campaigns.
All have also been largely white cultural touchstones for generations, but the GOP has embraced and clung to them since the Party rebranded itself after "wimpy" George HW Bush didn't know how a supermarket checkout scanner worked.
But none of that should be political.
Millions of Democrats who like Country music and own guns also believe it's possible for America to show the world that a truly multiracial democracy is both possible and stronger than a country that simply depends on DNA for its identity.
What rational country, after all, would intentionally block or throw away the talent and genius of an entire generation of young people who could change the world for the better, just because of their skin pigment?
Citibank published a report in 2020 documenting the cost of racism in America today. Just between 2000 and 2020, they show, all of America lost $16 trillion in GDP because discriminatory lending practices kneecapped entrepreneurs in Black neighborhoods ($13 trillion), discriminatory hiring and other business practices cut Black wages by $2.7 trillion, and hundreds of billions were lost to housing and education discrimination.
This is the biggest challenge America has faced since the Civil War.
The Democratic Party represents policies the majority of Americans support according to every serious poll in the past few decades. Democrats want a functioning republic where all people are respected, supported, and have due process under law.
Democrats have worked for almost a century to produce and maintain a strong middle class so people can reach their greatest potential and raise their families without constant economic anxiety.
The Republican Party, representing policies of racial and religious separation and oligarchy supported only by a minority of Americans (albeit a slight majority of white people), has worked for at least forty years to pit Americans against each other, enrich the top 1% while stripping wealth from the bottom 90%, and rig the rules for elections to continue GOP minority rule.
Republicans hide behind cultural symbols mentioned earlier to conceal their real goal, which is to turn large parts of America into whites-only apartheid regions while stripping working class people of what little wealth they have left and handing it over to the top 1%.
My colleague on SiriusXM radio, Dean Obeidallah, notes how deeply hate and racism as politics has gone systemic in the GOP: "Only 11 House Republicans of over 200 voted to condemn Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for her bigoted comments about Muslims, Jews, and Blacks as well as her embrace of political violence versus Democrats."
As groups of armed white supremacists roam the streets this holiday season terrorizing shoppers and intimidating people of color, it's important for America to confront the deep racial divide in our body politic before more shooting starts.
We've already seen a white supremacist travel to El Paso and murder 22 people after writing, "This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. " They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion."
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