The Republican Party, as it is presently constituted, is to a great extent the party of rural and suburban white people.
The GOP and especially the various tea-party movements do love their libertarian, free-market rhetoric. But that doesn't mean the right has functioning libertarian, free-market principles. The organising principle of the contemporary right is the identity politics of "Americanism", the upshot of which is that the lifestyle and values of non-city-dwelling white people are (as opposed to the lifestyles and values of urban, non-white people) authentically American. Because, you know, residing in a colossal, heavily-subsidised, detached, single-family compound in a vast exurban development with convenient access to an interstate highway is exactly what James Madison had in mind. Pro-minority, pro-poor urbanism, as lovely as that sounds to my ear, sends all the wrong signals to the American-flag t-shirt crowd.
Depressingly true.
Mr Tucker(and Rev Sanders)
ReplyDeleteStep back for a second and ponder your argument regarding the Republican Party and Urban (Black & Hispanic) America.
At present the "political consciousness" of the Urban Dwellers is "owend" by the progressive forces of the Democratic Party. Assuming that you believe these people to be "Equal Human Beings" then you must also accept that they are capable of making decisions as to the policies they prefer and who represents them. Thus far they have chosen to be represented by the Democratic Party. More disturbing - they have allowed embeded operatives make the case that their racial development trajectory is fused to the success of the political party and progressive ideology of their choosing.
This is why I find it hard to comprehend why we are focusing on the Republican Party "shortcomings" in attracting urban voters INSTEAD OF the overwhelming success that the Democratic Party has had in fusing these people's community/racial consciousness with
their political activities.
Long story short - it appears that these zones are "vote harvesting districts" and the decades of struggle where their BALLOTS have been made EQUAL these areas have been husbanded as reliable sources of support for the joint-venture partners of those with the most influence upon the people.
If we were to use the analogy of two drug companies - you are attacking the company with the red pill for ignoring a potentially lucrative market while looking past the company with the blue pill. When the consumer's stomachs are pumped the physicians find a mass of these pills within. Luckily, it seems, these are just sugar pills which taste good on the way down but are mostly inert.
it is ultilately an exercise of folly for the GOP to market within the Black community.
The Black community needs an APOLITICAL strategy within which the political operatives are pushed out of their position of confidence, allowing us to think more clearly as to which way to go forward.
Our mistake has been to attempt to do certain things POLITICALLY which have no business being politicized.