1. White men have always been a minority in America. The founders gave us minority rule and called it democracy. We were founded in gaslighting.
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2. Much of this country’s history has been a battle between the defenders of minority rule and people who want the democracy the founders promised. The Southern Strategy made that battle partisan.
3. The battle is partisan, but not symmetrically. The modern GOP is hardcore pro-minority rule. The Democrats, and the left more broadly, isn’t hardcore anti-minority rule. We’re a mix. 
4. I’m aware of two times in history when being hardcore pro-minority rule has been a partisan issue: now, and 1860. I don’t think it’s a coincidence these are the two times of widespread partisan support for treason.
(I’m not a historian. Take grains of salt accordingly.)
(I’m not a historian. Take grains of salt accordingly.)
5. America’s minority rule propaganda tells us straight white people are the Real Americans, and that leaders should be straight white men. It conflates America and patriotism with white supremacy and patriarchy.
6. And because of that, when people defend minority rule, they think they’re defending *America*. They think *we’re* the traitors. Treason isn’t treason when your country is white male supremacy.
7. Minority rule has a lot on its side. Like the Electoral College, vote suppression, a white male-dominated media, and a population pre-marinated in propaganda. Everything that’s maintained minority rule since the start, and everything that’s kept it hidden in plain sight.
8. The pro-democracy side has two big things on our side. We’ve got numbers. And we’ve got a shared cultural belief that democracy is good.
But we’ve always had those advantages. On their own, they’re not enough.
But we’ve always had those advantages. On their own, they’re not enough.
9. That’s where this comes in. The number of hardcore pro-minority rule Americans is smaller than the rest of us. But too many of the rest of us have been sitting on the sidelines.
10. Too many white people saw abolition and the Civil Rights Movement as someone else’s fight. Too many men saw the suffrage movement as someone else’s fight. Too many straight, abled, Christian or rich people see the fight for equality and think it’s not the fight for democracy.
11. When we match the pro-minority rule side in effort, we win. When we don’t, we lose. And one reason we don’t is because too many of us don’t even know the fight is happening.
