SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THE UPCOMING 2012 ELECTIONS

Racism, xenophobia and homophobia were an underlying silent current in the GOP…Not anymore.

From the point of view of a Hispanic like me, it is very difficult for me to regale the Republicans with even one vote in an insignificant local election. I have always known this but some members of minorities like blacks gays and other ethnic minorities haven’t seen it as clearly.

This muddy juxtaposition of bigotry and discrimination has been for the most part silent, just lying there beneath the surface and no one would dare come out and admit to these racist, xenophobic and homophobic biases. But it has changed…now it is out in the open and it may work for a very limited, albeit politically active and vocal right wing minority…but it will not work for the general population.

The United States at large has traditionally been center right, not ever going to the radical right even during the McCarthy years and all the communist witch-hunts that took place. Eventually this charlatan was given his walking papers in a most humiliating way.

The Republicans of today are facing a similar situation; only now it is not just one crazy, radical individual but a bunch of them and they have taken control of the narrative but also have obtain an incredible amount of power that has forced the Republican Party so far to the right that they are now endangering themselves and risking total repudiation from so many minorities and from the general population as well.

Why do I say this? I have pointed this out on many occasions, as Republicans systematically have thrown under the boss Blacks, Hispanics, Labor Unions, Women, Seniors, the sick, LGBT Americans and in general their opposition to having the middle class keep their place in our society…by their attacks on all of these one wonders who the fuck will be voting for any Republican?

 

We have seen how these Presidential hopefuls have attacked one by one, a group of people or minorities which makes their ideology diametrically opposed to who we are as a people and what America is all about…a land of opportunity, a place of hope and one that takes care of the meek, the weak, the poor and also provide the means for anyone to pull himself by the bootstraps and make something of himself/herself.

That my friends is the ever eluding AMERICAN DREAM and it is by the actions and ideology of the Republicans that the dream has turned into a nightmare for most of us but even more severe for minorities…particularly with the hell-bent effort on the part of Republicans to disenfranchise millions of minority voters.

This was posted in America, Election 2012, Politics, Quote of the Day, Racism, The Republican Clown Car on January 9th, 2012 by Scott and I think it expresses it best:

“And, suddenly, the dog whistles have turned into air-raid sirens.

I think, maybe, it’s time for the nation to rise up and point out to the Republican Party that, root and branch, it is a racist embarrassment to democracy and blight on this nation that the entire world can see. Whether it’s N. Leroy Gingrich’s chirping about how all the black people are on food stamps, or Rick Santorum’s talking about the mysterious Blah People, or this clown whom the other clowns in the Kansas House elected to lead them, there is a steady, noxious river of bile flowing through the entire Republican party, and through the conservative “movement” that empowers it. It should marginalize the party to whatever back lot of hell it is in which a cross-eyed James Earl Ray attempts to shoot an apple off the head of Byron De La Beckwith for all eternity.

No, I don’t accept your apology, you ignorant old fart. No, Rick, I don’t believe for a moment you meant to say something else and it came out “Blah people,” you Bible-banging coward. Nobody’s talking in code any more. It’s right out front there, for the entire world to see. How dare these people? How dare their evil souls?”

For these and for so many other reasons it will be a cold day in hell before I give a Republican my vote. Just like they have this visceral hatred for President Obama because they can’t wrap their minds around the idea that a black man is living in the White House…as it relates to me, they had no beef with me as long as my mom was cleaning their houses and I was serving their tables; but once I got that college degree I met with that proverbial glass ceiling and 9 out of 10 they were coming from racist Republicans.

Charles Pierce at the Esquire Politics Blog.