Bob Cesca, of Huffington Post, posted something today, that I'd like share with you guys. In particular, members of this site. See, I am trying to understand where all this hate is coming from. Engaging in discussions seems futile as some prefer to make personal attacks.
Witnessing first hand racist slurs and non-factual rants, this article focuses on the strategy behind the strategy the GOP employs to rally the white Christian base.
Since Bob Cesca can explain it way better than me, here excerpts from his article. A link to the full article at the bottom of the page.
"Earlier this year, Republican Party chairman Michael Steele admitted that the GOP has engaged in Southern Strategy politics: employing racial, anti-minority code language and fear-mongering as a means of energizing the party's white Christian base.Fact: the Republican Party routinely tweaks white fear, paranoia, prejudice and resentment in order to win votes and score political points at the expense of demonized minority groups.
This year has to be some kind of high water mark for white antagonism against minorities, and evidence that the Republicans, along with the array of far-right apparatchiks, don't really have a serious agenda for governing to sell or, for that matter, anything of value to say. And so they do this. They continue to tap into a mother lode of white majority self-pity and inchoate rage as a form of spackle over the gaping holes in their ridiculous policy arguments.
A major feature of the Strategy: never draw the conclusion. Some examples. A black woman was talking about white people -- and you know what that means. Mexican babies are automatically citizens -- and you know what that means. The president with his mysterious religion and unusual name said positive things about Muslims -- and you know what that means. We don't know where Imam Rauf is getting his money -- and you know what that means. Wink, wink. White rage is successfully tweaked. Mission accomplished.
My biggest concern is that it will eventually become acceptable to the mainstream. I worry that the politicians, talkers and pundits who employ the Strategy will no longer be marginalized and disgraced -- that it will become just an ordinary fact of life, as it already has for the most cynical among us. Unfortunately, when it comes to people like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Mark Williams, we're already beyond the zero barrier.
We have to prevent our discourse from moving beyond that point of no return -- to make sure that the exploitation of racial intolerance at the highest levels of politics and the media doesn't become just another accepted facet of the American debate."
link to full article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-summer-of-republican_b_694687.html