Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Both of America’s great national parties are coalitions.
But it is the Democratic Party that never ceases to celebrate diversity — racial, religious, ethnic, cultural — as its own and as America’s “greatest strength.”
Understandably so, for the party is home to a multitude of minorities.
It is the domain of the LGBTQ movement. In presidential elections, Democrats win 70 percent of Hispanics, Jews and Asian-Americans, and 90 percent of African-Americans.
Yet, lately, the party seems to be careening into a virtual war of all against all.
Democratic Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring of Virginia have both admitted to using blackface.
Northam imitated Michael Jackson’s “moonwalk” in a 1984 dance contest. Herring, in 1980 at the University of Virginia, did a blackface impression of rap icon Kurtis Blow, who called it ugly and degrading.
The resignations of both have been demanded by Virginia’s black leadership. Northam and Herring, however, are defying the demands.
Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, only the second black ever to win statewide office, has been charged by two women with rape. And the demands for his resignation are growing louder and most insistent.
Yet if Fairfax is forced out, while the white governor and white attorney general get a pass, black leaders warn, all hell is going to bust loose.
The Democratic Party of Virginia was already convulsed over all the monuments, statues, schools, parks, highways and streets that bear the names of slave owners, Confederate soldiers and 19th- and 20th-century segregationists.
Across the Potomac, Ilhan Omar, the first ever Somali-American to serve in Congress, and a Muslim, ignited a firestorm last week when she gave this as the reason Congress faithfully votes the AIPAC line on Israel: “It’s all about the Benjamins, baby.”
The reference is to $100 bills, on which Ben Franklin’s face appears. The line is a rap lyric from a 1997 song by Puff Daddy.
Omar was saying Congress has been bought.
The House Democratic leadership demanded and got an apology from Omar for her use of an “anti-Semitic trope.”
But Omar now has company in the House. Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib, also a Muslim, shares and airs her views on Israel.
The problem for Democrats?
These provocateurs are magnets for media. They speak for a rising minority in the party that regards Israel as an apartheid state that oppresses Palestinians. And they find an echo among millennials on the party’s socialist left.
As Thursday’s Washington Post headlined, this Omar flap “could forecast a Democratic divide on Israel.”
Indeed, it may have already done so.
When Senate Republicans proposed legislation to allow states to refuse to hire individuals or contractors who support the BDS movement to boycott Israel, Senators Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders all voted no.
The four say they are supporting freedom of speech to condemn Israeli policy. But to others it looks like a progressive Democratic blessing for those urging that Israel be treated the same way Ian Smith’s Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa were treated.
Within the Democratic coalition, Asian-Americans are now in conflict with blacks and Hispanics over admission policies at elite schools and universities.
Asian-Americans are “overrepresented” where students are admitted based on test scores or entrance exams. Black and Hispanic leaders are demanding that student bodies, regardless of test scores, look like the community. And if this requires affirmative action based upon race and ethnicity, so be it.
The LBGTQ community is now in court demanding all the rights and protections of the civil rights laws of the ’60s. This will bring gay groups into constant collisions with religious communities that adhere to traditional moral views on homosexuality.
The minorities of color in the Democratic coalition are growing, as the base of the GOP is aging and shrinking. But these minorities are also becoming more rivalrous, competitive and demanding. And the further they move left, they more they move outside the American mainstream.
The pledge of allegiance this writer recited every day of school, reads: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Today, the antifa left desecrates the flag, as liberals praise NFL players who “take a knee” during the national anthem. Militant migrants march under Mexican flags to protest border security policies. The “republic” has been by “our democracy.”
We are no longer “one nation … indivisible” We have almost ceased talking to one another. As for “under God,” added in 1954, Democrats at their Charlotte Convention sought to have God excised from the party platform.
“Liberty” has been supplanted by diversity, “justice” by equality.
But as Revolutionary France, Stalin’s USSR, Mao’s China, Castro’s Cuba and Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela proved, regimes that promise utopian and egalitarian societies inevitably reveal themselves to be undertakers of freedom, America’s cause.
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To answer Pat’s rhetorical question; I fucking hope so.
Let the Democrat Party choke on their dieversity.
Peq.
The Democratic Party has transformed itself into a disorganized collection of minority interests, much of it extreme. As the leadership ages we’re left with morally corrupt Progressive idiots and an increasing number of socialists ignorant of real economics. I hope they eat each other when the eventual clash for leadership occurs.
In light of all that, being a deplorable bitter clinger makes me feel better.
100% white = 0% diverse
0% white = 100% diverse
White populations will be “diverse enough” when there are no white people left.
Diversity means chasing down the last white person. Antiwhites demand No-White-Anything-Anywhere.
Forced mass immigration and “diversity” for All & Only white populations: that’s the real white “Privilege”
College professors can explicitly wish for white genocide and say the massacre of whites is “a good thing indeed,” but to suggest there’s an agenda in “majority-white countries” to “promote low fertility and immigration to wipe out the white population” is a “conspiracy theory.”
How interesting. http://www.infowars.com/pro-white-genocide-professor-given-no-punishment-despite-saying-massacre-of-whites-a-good-thing/
Diversity was the death of the U.S.A.
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- all planned
Enough wih the fucking Latin! We all know by know that you are super smart and a level above the rest of us. Give it a rest.
Here ya go, snowflake
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- IT’S ON THE US ONE DOLLAR BILL………idiot
Not to get in the middle of your guys’ tiff, but it is worth noting that the teaching of Latin pretty much ceased during the late ’60s; Catholic schools held out longer. If kids had been required to take at least 2 years of a foreign language we would-as a country and a society-have been much better off. Latin especially allows its student to develop more thorough English skills. Same applies for some of Romantic Languages. Hey, I don’t understand what the phrase means either, but once upon a time I may have been able to figure it out and wish I still had that skill. Most importantly, I know where to go to break the code if I wanted or needed the answer.
Arthur Dietrich told me so. Going back into my cave now.
You see what I’m talking about?
Constant misdirection from this softball-PSYOP writer.
“Will diversity be the death of the Democrats?”
When the real subject that ought to be FRONT AND CENTER is:
“Will Drumpf be the death of the Republican Party”
They both can be true, and if true we might be optimistic.
I agree and did not suggest that either is untrue.
It’s just that one is in the spotlight, when the other one should be.
That’s taught in Misdirection 101.
The key is Harris
White biches won’t except a negro. It’s their turn.
Harris is a liability.
Tulsi is white looking enough.
Her radical gun-grabbing stance will hurt her in the polls (as planned), but it won’t make a damn bit of difference at election time give how utterly corrupt the elections really are: http://mileswmathis.com/trump2.pdf
dat kamala toe prolly look like it got aflete’s foot. An, staaaaankee. Daaaaaamn!
Pelosi (D) as in Diversity, Dumbass, Dung, Duplicity, Dipshit, Deficit, Detroit, Demonic, Democrat.
Two years working class whites looked at their traditional benefactors, the Democrats, and asked themselves, what have they done for us lately? The result was the election of Donald Trump. Now, the various groups comprising the Democrat’s base are asking, what are you going to do about our concerns? But those concerns, as Pat pointed out, are in conflict. You can’t be both for and against Israel, and affirmative action always comes at the expense of another group. And right now, the strongest Democratic contender for the presidency is an old white male, the one type of person they all agree they hate. But the money for the Democrats mostly comes from wealthy white people, who will demand to call the important shots. It is quite a mess to sort out, and I doubt Pelosi is up to the task.
Commie rat pieces of shit get what they deserve.
“diversity” is putting plastic links in a steel chain.
Why do those who demand “diversity”, really HATE diversity, and demand everybody be the same?
I’m trying to rationalise how you claim to believe in diversity and yet be INtolerant of Western Culture and Christianity
Discrimination is the ability to chose between good and bad …. if you do NOT discriminate….
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Letting welfare bums vote is like letting hitchhikers choose the destination.
TOLERANCE? Where is the Tolerance for the culture you fled TO? You ran away from Your culture because it was a shithole. Now you want to turn Our culture into the shithole you ran away from. GO BACK, GET OUT.
I do not have to tolerate your trashy habits or lack of sanitation and manners. Either assimilate or emmigrate.
… if the west is so racist… don’t come here!!