Dark, Dumb, and Democrat

Bush Country ^ | 09/19/03 | Vincent Fiore

[bedolido]

Before jumping to any conclusions based on the title, read a little further; or with keeping in context, see past the cover to the content. In regard to race, most of us in mainstream life see this as little more than a normal occurrence. Unwilling, and {let us hope}, morally unable, it is always the value of the individual, as opposed to the mass. But this sentiment is not as manifest as we would like it to be. Rather, it is obscure. Republicans, behaving as if there is no color divide within the country, are continually demagogued on the politics of race, and often stand mute in defense. The champions of the minority voter, the Democratic Party, are feted as the great equalizer of society's "disenfranchised," a blue caped superman with a big "D" on their chests, fighting the wrong's of the country's "Red Menace," the Republicans. Dear Democrats, if only it were the truth, but it is not.

While modern day history is filled with events depicting the Democrats use of race as nothing more than a vehicle to promote fear and separation, this space will only deal with their latest transgression against a seemingly unreflective minority electorate, namely the latest exploits of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel from the 9th circuit has decided to recall the California recall. Jurists Harry Pregerson, Richard A. Paez, and Sidney R. Thomas, Clinton and Carter appointees all, sit amongst a circuit court that was overturned 75% of the time in 2002 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Out of the nations 11 circuit court districts, the title of "circus court" seems as appropriate for this venue as green is to grass.

The panel in its decision to recall the recall slated for October 7th, cited selective parts of the 2000 mini-series, Bush V. Gore in their 65-page decision. They also sided in principle with the main plaintiff of the case, the ACLU. The thrust of the ACLU's argument was that minority voters would be disproportionately disenfranchised. How? Simple. There are "chads" involved, as in Florida 2000, chads from punch card ballots. Six counties in California still possess these diabolical "racist" voting apparatus, slated to be changed by March of 2004. But the problem {again} is not so much the punch ballot, as is the punchee. Yes, Blacks and Latino's, in all their accomplishments, are just too stupid to vote correctly using a punch card. But I do not state this, I merely echo the convictions of the liberal establishment.

Listen instead, to the ACLU legal director Mark Rosenbaum in a press conference following their successful halting of the October 7th recall. "We know going in that if the vote were to take place in October, that the opportunity for voters of color and low income to have their votes counted would be one half to one-third of what it is for white voters and affluent voters." While trying not to sound unhinged, just how the hell can he {or anybody} know this, and correspondingly use it as a fact in open court? Surely, you would think they couldn't. But the above illustrates just how inept and dependent minority's are in the eyes of their modern day masters, the Democratic Party. I do not say this cavalierly, yet I say it with conviction. Mr. Rosenbaum's statement cannot mean anything else other than the indictment that entire races and classes of people cannot summon up the intelligence needed to pop a little piece of paper out of a box. Tag, Blacks and Latino's: Your it.

That statement, as a matter of tactic, is business as usual for Democrats, and not new to Republicans who have seen this act before. But some thing's can never cease to amaze. The amazement for me is the trustingly bumptious loyalty the minority populace affords this elite group of shibboleths. Blacks especially exhibit a near slavish mentality when voting for any Democrat running. Stunningly, it has made no difference to blacks with regard to history, past or present, that the Democratic Party has led the premier minority group in the country down a dead end street. Republicans, for their part, are woefully inept in pointing this out. Harboring a near fatalistic attitude when attempting to address the concern's of black voter interest, they sound distant and distracted. Forever fearing Democratic and media finger pointing, Republicans have nearly bypassed blacks as a whole and instead are in pursuit of that other chad challenged minority group, Latino's.

It is time for Republicans to loudly say they are more than just a monochromatic Party. And that means pillaging liberals who continue to think of minority's as less capable than everybody else. And on the other side, it is time for minority's to step into the 21st century. This is not Selma, and it is not 1964. You {minorities} are treated as less by your own party because you demand results less. California has had punch card balloting for 25 years for every elected statewide office. There have been few problems. But because the plaintiff's in this case sued the Secretary of State, and not the 6 counties still using punch cards, this was never heard. Arguing that as many as 40,000 votes would not be counted in an area that represents 44% of the California electorate, the ACLU convinced the 3 judge panel that thwarting the will of the people in California was the better coarse of action because minority's cannot figure out how to vote.

The California Constitution? Just a minor inconvenience for an activist court. Just overrule it.

In December of 2000, Mark Levin, President of the Landmark Legal Foundation, seemed clairvoyant when writing these words in a commentary for National Review: " One can only imagine the kinds of lawsuits that will be brought by disgruntled voters…For example, does a Federal cause of action exist if different ballots are used throughout the state? Does a Federal cause of action exist if older voting machines are used in poor areas and newer machines are used in affluent areas?"

The Liberals attack dog, the ACLU, has successfully stopped a constitutionally mandated election from going forward, calling it a "victory for California voters." Yet how is it a victory for the nearly 2 million signing the petition to recall Gov. Grey Davis? Or how about the 400,000 voters who have already voted via absentee ballot? Are they not now, by the ninth circuits ruling, disenfranchised? All these questions will eventually come to light in either an 11-member compliment of jurists in the 9th circuit, or the U.S. Supreme Court, as either one, or both will hear the appeal. What will not receive proper review is the caustic callousness and contempt with which the Democratic Party has treated its most reliable voting block. The ACLU's sensational use of race as a weapon only to stop an election is just one example of how Democrat's use people color as the eternal victims of society all in the name of regaining and holding power. And the caveat to this outrage is you begin to wonder just how in touch today's minority electorate wants to be. If the events of 40 years past the Civil rights act is any indication as to the mobility of minorities to think for themselves, meaning making informed choices and casting off the chains of their liberal masters, than it projects a future starkly bleak of promise. Are minorities too stupid to know what they want? No, despite what the Democrats say. Rather, a political laziness has set in for the near future.

Maybe the stupid one's here are Republicans, who watch from the sidelines as they let yet another ripe opportunity to underline the differences between themselves and the party that to this day practices a less corporal form of thralldom, but every bit as malignant.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It amazes me at the number of people who watch the Rats in California destroy the economy, drive business out, and tax the people into poverty yet STILL think that the Rats have a better idea.

[Verginius Rufus]

Good article, but the author need's to learn the correct use's of apostrophe's.

The other night Brit showed some figures from a study of different types of voting equipment. Some of the other types which are not being challenged actually have higher error rates than the old punch-card type...and the difference between the punch-card and the most accurate type is pretty small anyway, so minorities would only have a 1% greater chance of having their vote misread.

[neverdem]

It amazes me too, but it shouldn't. They have no honor, no shame. The media is in their pocket. Lest we not forget, pandering is regarded as so successful, look at how many Pubbbies do it.