when conventional wisdom maintained that race would never become a major issue in this nomination contest. I recall telling posters not to be such naive children. I recall being mocked and reviled by Obamacrats back then.
Guess what John? Race is now a major issue in this nomination contest. Gosh! Why didn't anyone warn people?! Oh wait . . . someone did; but I can't help notice that journalists in general, and Slate political journalists in particular, did not warn anyone despite the fact that anyone understanding both human nature, history, and politics could have predicted this.
But looking back on things there are always a handful of original thinkers among the fray posters that can and do ignore the fanatics and reason from the facts and from historical precedence and current social, economic, cultural, and political patterns.
But the call to censorship always rears its ugly head, doesn't it John? Fanatics [usually rightwingers] go beserk and DEMAND that we, those few Fray posters capable of original thought, remove ourselves from the posting venue.
Now we have fervent leftwing fanatics calling for the same sort of censorship today on this board because they are uncomfortable with the truth and the cold-blooded reasoning processes by which one eventually arrives at that truth. It threatens to rock their insular little world and as a result they are beginning to lash out at the handful of original, independent, and capable thinkers.
The irony, such as it is, resides in that the call for censorship comes this time from liberals that are supposed to embrace intellectual as well as racial, social, and cultural diversity. One notes that they did not have a problem with the reasoning methodology or processes when the chops we original-thinkers busted were those of rightwing fanatics. Now, however -- oh ho!-- "We can't have people rocking the ideological boat full of unexamined assumptions and doxology, now can we?" they exclaim.
So the thing is John, as you and the rest of the newsmedia prepare to call this race over and done with on May the 20th, how do you feel about intellectualism when it reveals truths that people would rather leave unexamined?
Hillary really was pointing out that the vast middle class is not going to vote for Obama and that many of them are White. This is simple political sense and reality. This is also sending Obamacrats up in self-righteous flames, even though [or particularly because] it is the truth.
Now we both know that she did not mean to imply that only Whites are hard working and so forth, nor that these Whites she mentioned were necessarily hard core racists. There are other interpretations, but then fanatics do not want to hear that.
That, indeed, is where the Obamacrat fanatics are deliberately missinterpreting in order to gain political advantage regardless of the fact that they are essentially painting her as a racist in order to do so.
But then again we also know which way the national press is interpreting things, don't we? For that matter we heard how the DNC has decided to interpret things as well . . . they also have decided to paint Hillary as a racist.
Anyway John, beginning the 20th of this month, you and the rest of your fellow political journalists and writers are going to work very hard to convince the fifty percent of the Democratic Party that is supporting Hillary Clinton that the nomination process is already over. Essentially you will be rooting for the disenfranchisement of half of the party -- you and your fellow journalists.
But here is another uncomfortable truth, John. Whether it is racism [by BOTH Blacks and Whites -- not to mention non-Black minorities] or blatant media bias or the openly corrupt DNC, these issues are not going to just vanish simply because it's already a done-deal that Obama is going to be declared the winner in the middle of the race itself.
Journalists as well as fanatical Obamacrats are simply going to have to put up with having their snouts pushed into the smelly muck they call truth.
So it goes.
