The left can play the race card as a sword and a buckler. It has worked beautifully for them and nowhere is the power of this stratagem more flagrantly on display than in the career of Barack Obama.I might need forgiveness for shifting to the stock market, but I've found that the market shows the same foibles that politics does - and political beliefs don't complicate things there. So, it's illustrative.
Back in the late 1960s, there was a saying that was taken to heart by many investors: "Anyone who sold IBM, regretted it." This maxim was ballooned into the "one-decision stocks" theory: some companies were so good, you were crazy to sell them. You bought, but you never sold. A market crumble was merely an opportunity to buy more.
That theory, after working for a few decades, came crashing down in 1974. What always worked, didn't anymore.
I think the same fate is in store for the race card. It works so well, liberals might as well say "anyone who didn't play the race card, regretted it." When a technique works like magic, razor-sharp sword and adamantine buckler in one, the people using it become complacent and don't notice its decay.
There will come a time when the race card becomes little more than a joke. I don't know when, but I am sure it will disintegrate in their hands. Call it a hunch. "If it's this easy, it's too easy."
That day might come when groups come to see that the game of playing the race card is a zero sum game.
That means that the perception changes from one of decency requiring that African-Americans get a fair chance to an understanding that to advance one racial or ethnic group, qua group, is to retard another group.
The obvious example is to award places in universities on the basis of race.
This is certainly already taking hold in white middle America and it would be very surprising if California Orientals who are disfavored in the university admissions process despite their talent did not also feel themselves aggrieved. I would assume that Hispanics are beginning to see that favoritism in (quasi) government jobs to African-Americans in places like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is unfair.
The unvarnished reality is that blatant racism inevitably breeds reaction in kind.
