Posted on 10/29/2014 8:49:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The left’s behavior in the months leading up to this year’s midterm elections reveals far more than mere anxiety about their results.
There is real concern that they might be losing their grip on African-Americans, their most reliable constituency.
They should be worried. African-Americans who, more than any other group, were promised “hope and change” in 2008 have seen plenty of reasons to lose hope, because the changes seen during Barack Obama’s first six years have done them serious harm.
Democrats have gotten used to counting on well over 90 percent of blacks voting in their favor. If that figure had come down to even 75 percent in the 2012 presidential election with those abandoning ship voting for Mitt Romney, Barack Obama’s 3.5 million popular-vote margin would have vanished.
One activist recently lamented [1] that blacks “think the president is a savior.” Well, that’s what many blacks believe they were promised. This lady clearly thought so six years ago:
The guess here is that the woman interviewed still has to worry about putting gas in her car. Even after the recent fall in prices, it’s still almost twice as much [2] per gallon as it was in late 2008.
Actually, to my surprise and surely the left’s chagrin, my guess was right. It turns out that in July 2014, the once euphoric Peggy Joseph was very disappointed [3] in what had since transpired:
“(The) mortgage got worse and gas prices got higher.”
“During that time, we needed a change. But a change for the better, not for the worse.”
…
“The man behind the curtain is not who we thought or expected him to be.”
The black community’s suffering is deeply baked into the economic numbers.
Black employment per the government’s Household Survey has increased by 1.4 million since the recession officially ended in June 2009. The good news ends there. Unfortunately, analysts at Sentier Research, working with Census Bureau data, tell us that during that same period, black household income fell sharply [4], and by far more than in any other ethnic group:
Looking at household wealth [5], “virtually no progress has been made” in narrowing racial disparities. On average, almost everyone is poorer, and those who were poor already with less to lose have been hardest hit.
Speaking of being poor, the African-American poverty rate in 2013 was 27.2 percent [6]. That’s a 2.5-point increase since 2008, and 1.4 points since 2009. At 12.3 percent, the white poverty rate in 2013 was less than half that of blacks, and had fallen to where it was in 2009.
It has long since become obvious that the left can’t credibly argue that their policies have provided African-Americans any kind of tangible economic benefit. This has forced them to resort to the politics of perpetual outrage.
This explains why the race-baiting industry, with fundamentally dishonest [7] establishment press assistance, tried — and spectacularly failed [8] on substance — to make a national case out of Trayvon Martin. It explains why they have turned Ferguson, Missouri, into a virtual urban battleground. That effort, primarily an attempt to railroad a cop who was by most accounts defending himself against his attacker instead of letting the attacker kill him, also appears to be on track to fail [9].
The need for perpetual outrage also explains why the Obama administration continues to litigate against requiring identification to vote and to cast anyone who dares oppose them as presumptively racist. If anything, identification requirements aren’t strong enough, given recent evidence that tens or even hundreds of thousands of non-citizens are illegally voting [10].
But the merits of their bogus attempts at prosecution or their legal arguments really don’t matter. Only fanning the outrage does.
By their actions, the left is betraying its belief that the only way to keep African-Americans in a failed economy marching in lockstep on the liberal plantation is to deliver a continuous stream of disinformation supposedly showing that the system is irretrievably stacked against them.
Just wait until the plantation’s inhabitants figure out that the people doing the stacking are the very people who pose as their best friends.
Most people believe that President Obama’s deferral of unilateral — and unconstitutional — executive action on immigration was done to avoid a serious backlash in the midterm elections. I believe that it was primarily a targeted decision.
Allowing the euphemism known as [11] “a path to legal status for millions of undocumented workers” will suddenly create a tidal wave of competition for low-paying jobs at law-abiding employers. Disproportionately low-skilled African-Americans are already having a hard enough time finding jobs. A much fiercer fight for low-paying jobs will keep wages depressed. If the Obama administration were to somehow get its way and enact a $10.10 per hour minimum wage, that would only leave more disgruntled job seekers on the sidelines.
I believe that Obama’s immigration deferral was largely done to keep black voters on the plantation this time around, and to buy Democrats some time to figure out how to brainwash those they are shafting. As a result, the party will probably keep or win a few House, Senate and gubernatorial elections which are currently too close to call but would have become certain losses without the immigration deferral.
Once Obama opens the immigration floodgates, the chances of a serious backlash in the black community, which has already endured so much and received so little in return, are far from small.
I sense an historic opportunity here to open up African-Americans’ hearts and minds. Are sensible, free-market, compassionate conservatives up to the challenge?
No dice. The Blacks do as they are told by their masters.
Seems like I read articles like this before every election. Yet it never happens. Maybe we’ll go from Dems getting 96.25% of the black vote to 96.05%.
Such is the way of 'Progressives'................."WAR IS PEACE," "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY," "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." ..................
I don’t know if it can happen. You’ve got people who for generations have been brain-washed by their parents, their friends, their pastors, their educators, their employers, the race baiters, their peers in the community at large, the MSM, and their spouses.
Good luck with that...
Democrats have done everything possible to empower and perpetuate a loser mindset among black folk. Whining, complaining and ingratitude. Always demanding that more be given them.
The key to prosperity is contributing. Give and it shall be given unto you. Continually demand that more be given you and you will never have enough. NEVER.
One can only hope.
Even if just a percentage or two more stay at home or change their votes
Helps mitigate the voter fraud
They are being Obamboozled! And now they know it!...................
Even though I am in LA, I come to work so early, I get to listen to a trucker station. 2 guys, Eric and ...
Anyway, this morning, a black guy called in and was upset at Democrats for putting the emphasis on blacks collecting welfare and food stamps when it should be on getting jobs and sticking with it when the going gets tough.
I hope this is a trend.
And I did forget the Democrat party didn’t I.
Nope, not this time.
Their percentage of the " Black Vote" has slipped from 99.6% to a low, low 97.9%. Just WOW! The implications are dire. In those precincts reporting 101% turnout, one or possibly three votes could go to the "Republicans," if they are counted, of course.
With the left, it’s not about results, it’s about “caring”.
The left claims to “care” about the black plight,
so that’s what they run on.
Conservatives know that “benign neglect” is actually the best way to allow a group to succeed, but we’re “heartless and uncaring” for having that attitude.
Nope.
My motto on headlines with question marks in them remains intact. The answer to the question is always “no.”
Hahahahahahahaha....yeah right!
The problem is, the bulk of the black electorate seems to be so thoroughly propagandized, bordering on delusional...I don’t know what we could realistically offer that could sway them.
I say this after hearing many discouraging interviews with blacks who are prepared to accept NO evidence under ANY circumstances that would let that cop in Ferguson off the hook.
A party that depends on the presence of an underclass to maintain their power must make certain that a permanent underclass exists for them to exploit. After all, if everyone succeeded and became self sufficient, why would they need a Democrat Party to 'help' them?..................
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