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The Race Wars are On! Vote for Obama or Else!

The Race Wars are On! Vote for Obama or Else!

Politics is the process of decision making in groups and the quest for power to enforce those decisions.  A significant fraction of power rests in the splinter groups or special interest groups that can bargain their votes for concessions.[1] Other factions are anchored in base rock and cannot change their votes so they become rubber stamps for the party leaders.  When all the groups are nested and the vote counts assessed one party may be far short of a majority thus facing the reality of a loss in the next election. Such is the unfortunate situation for the Democrats as they have selected their candidates and now see that they are behind in the polls. The only option is to persuade [or frighten] undecided voters, if such a thing can be imagined after a solid year of campaigning, to cross party of special interest lines and vote for the opposition. The threat of a race war is one option.

Now racism has played a central role in leftist politics ever since the Civil War and the workings of the Bolsheviks in US unions and black political groups since 1920. We have a long history or race-baiting[2] and bias where voters are supposed to place their votes to support certain parties and support one position or another focused by racism. The New York Times—aka the Walter Duranty Papers [3]  has a 90+ year history of apologizing for Communism, fostering any form of anti-anticommunism has used race-bating and other propagandistic stratagems for decades in their quest to attract voters. Their op-ed pieces routinely contain articles—more like screeds—that crank out visions of oppression and expose racist actions by non leftists.[4] The so-called journalists in many arenas appear to be non-racists in a holy crusade to expose the ‘real’ racists and this disease is called cryptomisoxeny.[5] Here, the mechanisms and levers of overt racism may be plied and rotated in the honorable crusade to attack and expose overt racism. The circular logic of this nostrum is amusing. We can view this circus as we review the responses to Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racism and hate sermons, the mentor of Barack Obama for two decades. Apparently, the senator can sit in the pews for 20 years and not notice that his pastor is a noisy political agitator and racist.

The sordid outcomes of this political effort frequently result in comments like this:

"To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable," Ferraro said today. "He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred. “[6]—Geraldine Ferraro recoiling from accusations of racism. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.] Apparently, Geraldine has forgotten how to play the game.[7] She is now a racist.  So is Bill Clinton as we read.

When the contest is nearly equal those who sit on the political fence suddenly are intoxicated with the power to be king [or queen] makers if they suddenly switch their votes to the opposition candidate and the quest for their favors becomes the only viable alternative to winning the race. A threat of war or riots in the streets is a convenient way of scaring voters away from their normal positions. The notion of Nicolas Sarkozy's survival[8] as French Interior Minister and his quest for the top spot in France was contingent on riots and was a factor in is victory over the Socialist Ségolène Royal who predicted [or faithfully  promised] new riots.[9]  The Spanish elections were apparently decided by threats from the Islamo-Fascisti by giving Zapatero's Socialists an unexpected win. "I am the victim of a coup they have tried to hide behind a bunch of muslims[sic]," the loser Mr Suárez said [10]

There is no question that riots or the threat of riots is a major political option that has been used for centuries and has upset the political designs all over the planet, which brings us to the current race in the US. There is no reason to suggest that such political stratagems are absent from the planning stage if Obama loses as the polls now indicate. The Obama loss would mean that his career and that of Hillary Clinton would be finished and that a billion dollars of political contributions would have been wasted. That outcome is indeed ugly.

Stroking this political lever, the journalist Ali advises us:

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!” [11]-- Fatimah Ali Sep. 2, 2008 Philadelphia Daily News. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

When queried about this pronouncement Fatima replies:

I stand by the column - but after all of that backlash, I realize I was dead wrong. We don't have to wait until after the election for a race war. We're in one now.”

“I know that putting the words "race" and "war" together is like hurling an incendiary device. But I wasn't issuing a call to arms, it was a metaphorical prediction.”[12]

She then quotes some hate e-mail stuff she received to support her position.  Summing up she retorts:

No, we're not anywhere near "post-racial" times. If we were, the possibility that a black man may well become our next president wouldn't matter. And two words out of 775 in my original column would not have unleashed the kind of hatred [by others? ]that makes me want to retreat to a bunker.

This is a classic piece of race-baiting and is standard in leftist circles. Publish some inflammatory comments that are soaked in threats and worse, collect examples of the backlash and then use the response as a retreat citing victim hood, fear and such. This is how politics works. The intent here is to scare whites into voting for Obama the way the cowardly Spanish were herded into the polls by militant Muslins and terrorists and the promises by French Socialists of street riots if Sarkozy was elected. Recall that the terrorists can burn 500 cars per night in Paris and the authorities seem not to notice. That is politics! But, Sarkozy did call them scum.

If the polls suddenly shift to Obama in the fury and froth of such threats then this will be some indication of how racist politics works. These are not "post-racial" times—these are hyper-racial times so look forward to more of this. This is all the left has left [pun intended].

 

Vote accordingly.

rycK

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[2] “Race baiting is an act of using racially derisive language, actions or other forms of communication, to anger, intimidate or incite a person or groups of people, or to make those persons behave in ways that are inimical to their personal or group interests. This can also be accomplished by implying that there is an underlying race based motive in the actions of others towards the group baited, where none in fact exists. The term "race" in this context can be construed very broadly to include the social constructs which define race or racial difference, as well as ethnic, religious, gender and economic differences. Thus the use of any language or actions perceived to be for the purpose of exploiting weaknesses in persons who can be identified as members of certain groups, or to reinforce a group's perceived victimhood, can be contained within the concept of "race baiting." Many people who practice race baiting often believe in racism, or have an interest in making the group believe that racism is what motivates the actions of others.

The term "race baiting" is often a critique of anti-racist actions and communications implying that those who criticize apparent racism are themselves guilty of either a form of racism or of simple manipulation” Race baiting

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_baiting

[3] In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.

[7] Ferraro Resents Being Called a Racist?? Has She Forgotten How to Play the Game?

Posted by rycK on Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:53:58

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/20/ferraro_resents_being_called_a_racist_has_she_forgotten_how_to_play_the_game.thtml

[8]If there was a single subtext unifying the political establishment during the early days of flame and street battling here, it was the idea that the riots could become the black mark of death on Sarkozy's presidential ambitions in 2007.” By JOHN VINOCUR

International Herald Tribune Published: November 15, 2005 With Wobbly Landing, Sarkozy Survives Riots http://select.nytimes.com/iht/2005/11/15/international/IHT-15politicus.html

[11] Fatimah Ali: We need Obama, not 4 more years of George Bush Posted on Tue, Sep. 2, 2008 Philadelphia Daily News http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/27755834.html

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