The GOP Is Writing Off 30 Percent of the American Electorate
23rd August 2016
This extended whine by Nick Gillespie merely retreads the common delusion is that ‘appeal’ is like the weather, it just happens and those to whom it happens need to flounder around and find some sacrifice to the gods of Political Correctness that will get them on the Right Side of History.
It wasn’t always this way, of course, and looking at how Republicans went from being the default party of black voters after the Civil War to being a pariah among them is a way of understanding one highly probable future for the GOP as a minor party that represents a smaller and smaller bloc of voters who identify as “white” and “American” in strictly nativist terms.
Basically, the Republicans got out-bid. LBJ started the process with his remark, when signing the Civil Right Act, ‘Those niggers will vote for us for a hundred years.’ Northern Democrats essentially threw the Southern wing of their party overboard by realizing that they could purchase black politicians through corruption (always a Democrat specialty; look at the various city ‘machines’), and those corrupt black politicians would deliver the black vote through grievance-mongering (look at Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) and government benefit payoffs. Even today, the ‘appeal’ that Democrats have for black people is ‘Obama money’ from ‘his stash’, which is YOUR wallet.
An added bonus, probably not planned, was the destruction of the black culture through government welfare dependency. Destroy their families through ‘benefits’, destroy their communities through ‘housing projects’, destroy their schools through ‘identity politics’, and they have nowhere to turn except the government — and the Democrats, the party of government.
Black culture having been destroyed and made dependent on government, they are now turning to white underclass culture. Unlimited immigration of underclass Hispanics is forcing working-class whites into a poverty trap, from which the only salvation is — you guessed it — government benefits.
Blacks learned that if you don’t have any prospect of an honest job, drugs and crime are your only options. Now, underclass whites are learning the same lesson. Eventually you hit a tipping point where the only thing that underclass whites can aspire to is Eminem, who prospers by pretending to be black and beating real black people at their own ‘gangsta’ culture. We even see undoubtedly white people ‘identifying’ as black because they want to get in on the victim gravy train.