It's Shocking.

The Scream, 1893, Edvard Munch

This is my shocked face!  I am appalled at the racism, scandal, and outrage of today’s political culture.  It would be totally unexpected if it hadn’t been 30 years in the making, or maybe we could go back to Richard Millhouse Nixon and say it has been 50-years in the making.

For years the left has been empowered to belittle, mock and ridicule the ideas of the right.  All the media aligned itself with the left and encouraged the behaviors that led to such vilification of conservatives such as Nixon while holding Ted Kennedy up as a “Lion of the Senate.”  Don’t mistake my position.  Nixon probably deserved to be forced out of the Presidency, but that only happened because his own party said his abuse did not reflect the party standard. 

Can the same be said of the Democratic party?  Sadly, I think not.  Where was the party outrage when Clinton was found to have lied and obstructed justice while abusing his power over women?  Meh?  The Republican house levied Bills of Impeachment, the Senate Democrats stood united behind him.

So, we come to President Trump, who is clearly a product of the political evolution since Nixon and Clinton.  He uses the media against themselves and they can’t help but fan the flames of their own partisanship.

I wonder though?  When did racism become mainstream in national politics?  Certainly, from the time of the 14^th Amendment we’ve had a significant underground movement supporting the racist suppression of the black vote.  It wasn’t until a mid-westerner (Harry S. Truman, D-MO) became President that the military was forced to integrate, and only grudgingly at that.

In the 1950s and 60s, Dr. King led a massive effort to force change in the Southern States, where the Democratic Party united in an effort to suppress the black vote and maintain as much segregation as possible.  It was during these times in the 1950s when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) led by a future Supreme Court Justice was able to have the Court strike down the “separate but equal” standard established by the Court in 1896.  That ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education set the standards for complete integration.  A concept that was central to the civil rights movement of the time.  As a minority of the population, they deserved the exact same rights and privileges as the majority, nothing more and certainly nothing less. In his speech from the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King dreamed of a day when all men were equal, sadly that remains just a dream, but why?

In the 1970s two legal scholars, Derrick Bell and Alan Freeman postulated that racism was intrinsic in the culture and could never be removed.  The social sciences climbed on board and Critical Race Theory forms the basis for most of those studies in the social sciences today.  Unfortunately, CRT, as it has become known, assumes that only the whites can be racist since they control the power of the government.  That little nugget has become so ingrained in those who base their decisions on CRT that even when a black man assumes the most powerful position in the government, he is not capable of being a racist.  Its supporters have gone so far as to show how he or she might possibly be biased, but any discrimination he or she might support is clearly not racism.

This theory on race creates an unbalanced playing field, where only one side gets to make accusations of bias, hate, demagoguery, etc.  That is the race card the Democratic party has been playing since the 1980s when they began losing their grip on the Southern states as the party of Andrew Jackson moved from seeking a broad coalition to focusing on the urban elites and enticing the urban poor with promises of financial assistance without a labor requirement.

In the process, the Democratic party has created a new class of indentured servants who see their meal ticket tied to an increasingly socialist agenda where the government will care for all.  Those who die from the crime and violence of the Democratic-led cities are just unfortunate losses in a big operation. 

At the end of the day, there are just two statements that seem irrefutable to me about today’s political culture.

First, we get the government we deserve.  If we hadn’t made the government so big or created a political class where offices are passed down from one generation to the next (e.g. Al Gore Sr. and Al Gore Jr. or the Bush's GH and GW.) where personal enrichment is not only possible but is the approved model, perhaps our government would be more responsive.

Next, for all the outrage of the Left supposedly voices about President Trump, they created the conditions for his election by vilifying even the most moderate Republican as a racist.