Dixie - In Memoriam
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Does anyone besides me think the Democrats are going to regret squandering all of this time with the repeated cries and bleats of "racism" against the right?
I mean, I totally understand the Saul Alinsky method of pounding away at your adversary with scurrilous allegations and innuendos, but it's another 6 months until the mid-term elections, and this "racist" shit has been going on since before Obama was elected. How long can they continue to use it as a shield to protect them from accountability? If anyone dares to criticize this administration, that seems to be the 'go-to' response from liberals, we're just "racists" who can't stand that a black man is president!
I think, after a while, it just becomes rhetorical and petty, and doesn't help them a bit, and will actually start to have the opposite effect. I can see black people eventually becoming repulsed at how the liberal elite want to compare everything with civil rights and the plight of African-Americans in this country, and therefore 'cheapening' the struggle they went through, by making erroneous comparisons. I'm not saying the black community will bolt to the GOP in November, but maybe they don't show up at the polls with the enthusiastic support they've had in the past for the Democrats? I think that is a very real possibility, and it would spell absolute disaster for the party. Especially against the tide of growing support in the Tea Party movement.
Now, I am the type of person who it doesn't really bother to be called a racist, I get that all the time because I am proud of my Southern heritage, and make no bones about it, although I have never had any racist beliefs, and my lineage kind of makes racism a moot point, being that I am part African-American and part Native-American myself. Racist viewpoints would be somewhat 'self-defeating' for me, from my perspective, but if people want to call me names because they don't like something I have to say, or don't like my avatar, or whatever... it's a free country, it doesn't bother me. But a lot of people aren't like me, they don't appreciate being called "racist" and insulted that way, it really pisses them off. Especially if they are moderate or independent and don't really "belong" to the Tea Party or GOP, but agree with something they are saying. Most of these people are open-minded enough to give the Dems a chance to win them back over, but they are choosing to denigrate and insult them instead. I just don't think the strategy will work on these swing voters, I could be wrong, maybe some of them can be cajoled into supporting the Democrats to escape being called names and such, I just don't see that working large-scale to win over their votes.
But now, really, 6 more months of this? Is THAT what we have to look forward to from Democrat leadership? I thought Obama ushered in the era of "post-racial" America?
I mean, I totally understand the Saul Alinsky method of pounding away at your adversary with scurrilous allegations and innuendos, but it's another 6 months until the mid-term elections, and this "racist" shit has been going on since before Obama was elected. How long can they continue to use it as a shield to protect them from accountability? If anyone dares to criticize this administration, that seems to be the 'go-to' response from liberals, we're just "racists" who can't stand that a black man is president!
I think, after a while, it just becomes rhetorical and petty, and doesn't help them a bit, and will actually start to have the opposite effect. I can see black people eventually becoming repulsed at how the liberal elite want to compare everything with civil rights and the plight of African-Americans in this country, and therefore 'cheapening' the struggle they went through, by making erroneous comparisons. I'm not saying the black community will bolt to the GOP in November, but maybe they don't show up at the polls with the enthusiastic support they've had in the past for the Democrats? I think that is a very real possibility, and it would spell absolute disaster for the party. Especially against the tide of growing support in the Tea Party movement.
Now, I am the type of person who it doesn't really bother to be called a racist, I get that all the time because I am proud of my Southern heritage, and make no bones about it, although I have never had any racist beliefs, and my lineage kind of makes racism a moot point, being that I am part African-American and part Native-American myself. Racist viewpoints would be somewhat 'self-defeating' for me, from my perspective, but if people want to call me names because they don't like something I have to say, or don't like my avatar, or whatever... it's a free country, it doesn't bother me. But a lot of people aren't like me, they don't appreciate being called "racist" and insulted that way, it really pisses them off. Especially if they are moderate or independent and don't really "belong" to the Tea Party or GOP, but agree with something they are saying. Most of these people are open-minded enough to give the Dems a chance to win them back over, but they are choosing to denigrate and insult them instead. I just don't think the strategy will work on these swing voters, I could be wrong, maybe some of them can be cajoled into supporting the Democrats to escape being called names and such, I just don't see that working large-scale to win over their votes.
But now, really, 6 more months of this? Is THAT what we have to look forward to from Democrat leadership? I thought Obama ushered in the era of "post-racial" America?
