If you're truly concerned about "systemic racism," your goal should be purging ALL racially discriminatory policies and prejudice from The System, not merely changing which races get discriminated against.
That's not only necessary for the obvious reason that if the targets change once, they can change again. It's because ideas like racial prejudice are cancerous. Tolerate them and they will metastasize quickly through any system, because they are a source of easy power and money.
It's no coincidence that undercover videos of "racial awareness seminars" and "anti-white supremacy training" reveal absurdly stupid grift operations that would be laughed out of the classroom by third-grade children, as would the "scholarship" of the movement's Deep Thinkers.
Racism is easy money. The grifters are sloppy and ridiculous because they don't have to be sharp. Forcing people to treat idiots as if they're incisive thinkers, and lazy grifters as if they're paragons of morality, makes EVERYONE more stupid and corrupt.
TV networks are pumping out a tidal wave of shows that dramatize how stupid and vicious the racists of the 50s and 60s were. They don't realize that their caricatures are also easily recognizable in the "anti-racism industry" hucksters of today.
Try watching any of these Yesteryear Was Awful and Racist shows with today's racial conflicts in mind, and you can't get around it - just switch the skin colors, tweak the dialogue a bit, and you've got the same spiteful viciousness and lunkheaded idiocy of today.
Racism is lazy and stupid, no matter who the racist is, or how they justify their policies. It's an invitation to blame someone else for your problems while feeling *inherently* superior - two of the most addictive conceptual drugs the human race has ever invented.
Maintaining a huge system of racial prejudice with enforcement powers and billions of dollars in funding is an invitation to manufacture and weaponize idiocy for generations to come. As you may have noticed, weaponized idiocy has a hair trigger for erupting into street violence.
The political class will NEVER be able to resist the temptation to tap into racial prejudice for easy money and power. Hucksters will NEVER resist the temptation to prey on people who have been forced to accept stupid ideas. We must take the temptation away.
We're spending tons of money, and spilling gallons of blood, to obscure the self-evident truth that all men are created equal. Today's elites castigate the Founders for failing to live up to their ideals, while gleefully perverting those ideals for personal gain.
As long as we have a system built around the idea that some people must be punished because of their skin color, that some races are inherently more virtuous than others, we will have war. The only real peace is unconditional. We should insist on nothing less. /end
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Among the strangest features of GOP internal battles - be it NeverTrump, or conservatives displeased with nominees like McCain or Romney - is this notion that it would be better to throw an election to the Dems and hope a better Republican nominee comes along next time.
How can anyone still seriously think that way, especially after Obama's "Pen and Phone" dictatorship and Biden wiping his posterior with the Constitution to plow ahead with his student loan vote-buying scheme? No, guys, it is NEVER safe to just toss a few wins to the Dems.
Maybe it's a form of projection, a stubborn illusion that the Dem candidate might be relatively harmless and inert in office, as GOP leaders sometimes are. Those illusions should have been utterly shattered by now.
When pundits wrote a decade or two ago that corruption would become the big story around the world, I was skeptical. People love to COMPLAIN about corruption, sure, but few electorates are prepared to take decisive action against it.
Corruption is absolutely inherent to Big Government. Repeat after me, and teach your children: THERE ARE NO CLEAN BIG GOVERNMENTS. Amassing huge amounts of power and money in a central State is like dropping sugar cubes amid anthills.
One reason Big Governments never get clean is they have so many weapons at their disposal to distract the public from anti-corruption initiatives. Key segments of the electorate get paid off, too. Big Media is easily drawn into the cesspool and made comfortable.
It is difficult to combat totalitarianism through electoral politics because the whole point of totalitarianism is to seize control of elections. They terrorize and propagandize people for years, then hold a "vote" to find out if their techniques were at least 51% effective.
Defeating totalitarianism requires spirited resistance and good humor. Mock them and make them look ridiculous. They can't stand it, because they are driven by self-righteousness. Totalitarians are small people who need to feel large by joining herds and crushing outsiders.
Defy them at every turn. Go where you aren't supposed to go, say what you're not supposed to say, and do it all with a smile. Exhaust their resources while refusing to become demoralized. Raise the price of totalitarianism by bankrupting its corporate partners when possible.
The greatest threat to democracy at present is the deliberate effort to erase nationhood and citizenship through mass migration, against the express wishes of citizens.
You don't have much of a "democracy," much less a constitutional republic, if the ruling elite can ignore voters to erase the border and shower benefits and privileges on foreign nationals. It's an explicit rejection of national sovereignty.
You don't have any kind of "democracy" if the Ruling Class can use mass migration to create a new electorate that votes the way it wants. Votes have little power if the rulers can dilute them at will.
The Democrat Party grows increasingly less interested in pretending it cares about American citizens, or feels any sense of duty toward America as a nation. The Party was never really good at this, but at least it used to make some modest efforts.
As I've written previously, every Democrat thinks their Sacred Agenda is far more important than any vestigial sense of duty they might feel toward the American people. There is no "American people" to them, just groups of favored constituents and despised enemies.
America isn't really a legitimate nation under Dem ideology, which frees them of feeling any sense of responsibility to the country as a whole, or any weight of tradition that might interfere with their quest for power. They see not one nation under God, but the Balkans.
This once again has me thinking about how everything went nuts in American youth culture during the Great Anti-Bullying Crusade, which was really more about the Left studying and adopting classic bully tactics to impose its ideology on vulnerable young people.
One element of the growing social discontent in America today is that you have an entirely feminized Mean Girls ruling class wielding increasing levels of compulsive force to impose its ideology on an essentially masculine middle and lower class.
It's like those Middle Eastern countries where a Shiite minority rules over a restless Sunni population, or vice versa. Centralized power has grown to totalitarian levels, and it's concentrated in the hands of a political elite that shares nothing of the majority's worldview.