Steve Sailer often makes the point that the Democrat coalition is held together by a transcendent hatred of white males. Women, blacks, Hispanics and the six gay guys who bother to vote have one thing in common and that is they think the pale penis people need to be taught a lesson. Specifically:
Another aspect to consider is the inherent fractiousness of the Democrats’ Coalition of the Fringes: the lesbian-feminists are mad at the suddenly all-important she-males, the Muslims are mad at the Jews over the Middle East, the Asians are mad at the Hispanics over U. of California quotas, the NAMs are mad at the SWPLs for gentrifying them out to the sticks, Hollywood is worried that soon they’ll have to release statistics about their lack of diversity just like Silicon Valley has had too, and so forth and so on.
How can this coalition be kept together? Simple. By getting all the Fringes to unite in hating straight cis-gendered Christian old white uncool men (add as many qualifying adjectives as needed).
The question is whether it can hold together. Charles Murray thinks it will blow apart and the result will be a tribal culture of some sort. What that is, exactly, is debatable. This story from The Hill tells me it is coming at us quickly.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) on Monday accused Democrats of engaging in a “war on whites” in the current immigration debate.
On conservative radio host Laura Ingraham’s show, Brooks dismissed the idea that the more conservative GOP bloc’s position on immigration is hurting his own party.
“This is a part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else,” he said during the interview. “It’s a part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. Well that’s not true.”
A sitting Congressman talking like this is a big deal. It has been decades since anyone in the political class has been willing to say anything about race outside of the old chestnuts approved by our cultural masters.
On “Fox News Sunday,” National Journal’s editorial director, Ron Fournier, suggested the Hispanic community is becoming increasingly disenchanted with Republicans.
“This party, your party, cannot be the party of the future beyond November if you’re seen as the party of white people,” said Fournier, whom Ingraham described as being part of the “lame-stream media.”
I keep wondering if these experts are crazy, stupid or just pathological. Hispanics are not a big part of the vote. They tend not to vote in general and they have never voted in big numbers for Republicans. As a practical matter, the GOP is wise to limit the influx of Hispanics. That’s good politics and smart politics. Yet, experts keep yapping about the need for Republicans to chase Hispanic votes.
Brooks said recent polls indicate every demographic group agrees that the rule of law should be enforced and border security must be improved.
“It doesn’t make any difference if you’re a white American, a black American, a Hispanic-American, an Asian-American or if you’re a woman or a man. Every single demographic group is hurt by falling wages and lost jobs,” Brooks said.
All of the polling also shows that Hispanics are not fond of illegal immigration and favor cutting back on legal immigration. They suffer from none of the madness that has gripped the political class. They know what mass immigration means for them and they are not enthusiastic about recreating Tijuana in their new homeland.
“Democrats, they have to demagogue on this and try and turn it into a racial issue, which is an emotional issue, rather than a thoughtful issue,” he added. “If it becomes a thoughtful issue, then we win and we win big. And they lose and they lose big. ”
Brooks accused Democrats of playing a “political game” and Ingraham said they’re “playing the race card.”
This is the first time I think I’ve heard a GOP official take this approach. I have never understood why the GOP tries to do battle with the Left on their terms. Immigration should be as exciting as zoning issues. How many do we want and how do we process them? That’s it. But, it strikes me as being way too late in the day for any of it to matter. The future is going to be very unpleasant.
I have a terrific neighbor who immigrated legally from Mexico City around 40 years ago. He worked hard, built a successful construction business, invested in real estate, married and had two wonderful kids, bought a nice house for his family, and retired very well off. These days he travels the world. To say he’s livid over the border crisis is an understatement. Whenever he sees me he lectures me about how wrong illegal immigration is. “When is that ##$!@%$# Obama going to fix the border and stop those illegals coming?” he rants…as if I had the answer. He is one… Read more »
Cute Mexican waitress at a favorite Mexican restaurant in our quaint little Florida drinking town with a fishing problem tells me she doesn’t like visiting her Mexican mother in California.
Why, I asked.
Too many Mexicans, she replied.
True story.
I love most of my new Mexican neighbors. Family oriented, good work ethic, smart; If they end up taking sizeable chunks of our country away from us, they will probably have earned it. We’ve raised a couple of generations who know nothing of mowing lawns or processing chicken or picking avocadoes. They’re going to own us one day.
I fully admit to being torn on immigration. I’ve known a lot of Hispanics and even the gangsters are decent people. My own read is they make the same trek as Italians, Greeks, Poles, Irish and other Catholic immigrants a century ago. No one thinks of Italians or Irish as anything but typical white people, as Obama would put it. I feel the same way about Hindus and Chinese.
That’s only if we get control of the border and immigration policy. I’m not optimistic on that score.