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Posted on 03/16/2009 7:45:26 AM PDT by re_tail20
Today conservatism is stigmatized in our culture as an antiminority political philosophy. In certain quarters, conservatism is simply racism by another name. And minorities who openly identify themselves as conservatives are still novelties, fish out of water.
Yet there is now the feeling that without an appeal to minorities, conservatism is at risk of marginalization. The recent election revealed a Republican Party -- largely white, male and Southern -- seemingly on its way to becoming a "regional" party. Still, an appeal targeted just at minorities -- reeking as it surely would of identity politics -- is anathema to most conservatives. Can't it be assumed, they would argue, that support of classic principles -- individual freedom and equality under the law -- constitutes support of minorities? And, given the fact that blacks and Hispanics often poll more conservatively than whites on most social issues, shouldn't there be an easy simpatico between these minorities and political conservatism?
But of course the reverse is true. There is an abiding alienation between the two -- an alienation that I believe is the great new challenge for both modern conservatism and formerly oppressed minorities. Oddly, each now needs the other to evolve.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Minorities, by and large, are slaves on the Democrat plantations.
Who will the deadbeats turn to when the productive no longer have jobs?
From the government that will keep taking from us for as long as we have something to take.
As I argued in my essay on the subject posted last week, the GOP would do better to reach out to all the "Middle Class" voters (disaffected conservatives who didn't bother to vote at all in 2008, conservative Democrats, libertarians, etc.) who made up the Reagan coalition. they are still out there, and if we united them, we could and would win. But they want and need a solid conservative, fiscally responsible candidate and Party to unite them, and the present GOP has a long way to go in being rebuilt before it will be that leadership.
I simply don't care who wants to hear or who doesn't want to hear it anymore, but if we continue down the slope of immorality, we will be destroyed as a nation. No government, no people, no military, not anyone or any entity can save us from that fate if we persist stubbornly in immorality. And, it can happen in almost an instant. Babylon fell in one night.
Who gives a dang. That is why they are called “minorities.”
Should they come to our side, they would be part of the majority.
Simple isn’t it?
good article
The problem is with the minorities not with conservatives.
First minorities have all their priorities so screwed up. So when it comes to voting they take the path of least resistance which makes them lazy and stupid which just reinforces all the stereotypes conservatives have about em.
Second, minorities actually believe all the BS that liberals throw at em.
That’s what all the 5.56 boxes are for.
Ref post #9.
I can’t add to what you said.
ping for later reading
Indeed. The problems that they whine about could be fixed with conservative values. However when someone’s mentioned school vouchers or “enterprise zones” the so-called “leadership” flat out rejects it.
The one question my Democrat friends have never been able to answer is, after decades of the welfare state, “why then is the ghetto still the ghetto”?
....that would change their minds......
....nnnaaaahhh....they would only blame it on whitey...
...where's the welfare office....
From the article:
“The recent election revealed a Republican Party — largely white, male and Southern — seemingly on its way to becoming a “regional” party.”
Has this author ever seen a county by county map of the United States in regards to republican vs. democrat voting? It is exactly the opposite of what he claims. It is the democrat party that is a “regional” party of the high population centers and welfare communities with the rest of the country voting republican.
Lynden Johnson was not bent on redeeming America from its racial past (it was the democrats racism and not America’s racism anyway) but Johnson was simply bent on changing the strategy of the democrat party which was losing the battle of civil rights to the republican party. His new strategy was to weaken minority neighborhoods with socialism and moral relativism while promising handouts for votes and preaching hatred for republicans in high population areas. Johnson had a long history of voting against civil rights and was known for his racism throughout his life.
We have several generations of students totally brainwashed by the left in all of our schools. Several generations who can't think independently for themselves.
The Republicans are going to have to fight as dirtily, sneakily, insidiously and as unremittingly as the so called Democrats, “liberals”, leftists, socialists, communists in our own country who are trying to totally destroy the country and anyone on the conservative or right.
America and freedom is fighting for it's life now. This is not just politics as usual, it's a fight for the survival of America and Western civilization. It's a death fight, right here, right now. I think it's that serious.
Steele’s last paragraph is an absolute killer.
Brilliant/
No one cares about the truth anymore. You can show them it is the truth and they don't care. I've never seen anything like what I'm seeing now in my entire lifetime.
It’s funny how some people can look at a thing and see it as blue, while others see it so clearly as red.
Conservatism as a principle doesn’t need to “evolve”, but minorities certainly do. Conservatism as a political force is in disfavor because blocks of people have fallen for the myth of the entitlement society.
Leftists have convinced these blocks that they are entitled - entitled to healthcare, entitled to housing, entitled to success. Since these are things that we ALL want, why not believe that we should be entitled to them?
The left taught minorities to trade on their victim status - to wear it like a crown of thorns and to exploit it at every turn. If you aren’t getting what you want, it must be someone else’s fault, and someone else’s responsibility to fix.
And the left elevated itself upon promises and bribes to minorities - easy promises spent from someone else’s pocketbook. It’s easy when you aren’t paying for it yourself.
Conservatives have always held to the principle of equality of opportunity - we should all have a shot at the golden ring - but there can be no guarantees of success in this world.
So short term, leftists have made gains. The problem is maintaining that advantage as we eat ourselves alive. Despite the silly leftist rhetoric to the contrary, you can’t spend your way to prosperity, and money does not, in fact, grow on trees. Someone has to generate the energy to replace that which is expended.
Leftists are telling us that we will accomplish this simply by taxing the “excess” profits of our most affluent. Nevermind that this is the functional equivalent of “killing the goose who laid the golden eggs”, the practical outcome of predatory income confiscation is that these folks will work harder - to shield THEIR MONEY from the government, resulting in LESS revenue, not more.
When the government realizes that their coffers are diminishing, they will respond in the only way they know how - by seizing even more of OUR MONEY from even more of us.
Eventually minorities will come to recognize that their own interests are poorly served by the nihilistic political ideology that the dhimmicrat party represents. They will vote with whatever is left of their pocketbook. I hope they evolve quickly - at the pace that the dhimmicrats are dismantling America I fear that there will be little left to save...
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