Liberal columnist heralds coming ‘revolution’ as ‘dying white majority’ fades

Personal Liberty ^ | 5/23/2016 | Sam Rolley

[HomerBohn]

American Republicans who support Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential bid are knowingly backing “the meanest, whitest, most vile bigot possible” because they fear losing majority status.

That’s according to The Guardian’s Steven Thrasher, who contends that minorities will never prosper in the United States until 2043 “when this white supremacist nation becomes mostly non-white.”

Thrasher calls Trump’s rise to political power on the right predictable nearly eight years after the nation elected its first black president because “every bold advancement of progress in the United States is met by a racist backlash.”

Calling Obama “a clear symbol that the country is literally becoming more black,” Thrasher believes white Americans view Trump as a candidate who could somehow reverse the trend.

“In its final 27 years, some of the dying white majority are so desperate to hold onto their dwindling power it’ll come as no surprise when they follow history’s powder and elect a reactionary, racist, sexist man,” Thrasher said. “And that’s why a Trump presidency would be as historically American as the bald eagle, indigenous genocide, the three-fifths clause, mass incarceration, and apple pie.”

This, of course, is a bunch of nonsense.

First of all, Obama’s hope and change progress for U.S. blacks looks a little less impressive from a minority perspective by the numbers.

As talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley pointed out awhile back when asked if black Americans are doing better under Obama: “I’m not sure we are and I think ultimately the president missed a moment… On every leading economic issue, in the leading economic issues Black Americans have lost ground in every one of those leading categories. So in the last ten years it hasn’t been good for black folk. This is the president’s most loyal constituency that didn’t gain any ground in that period.”

Since Obama’s ‘bold advancement” into the White House, black poverty rates have inched up by a couple percentage points while labor participation rates for American blacks have hit historic lows.

Back in 2014, The Financial Times pointed out that median income for non-white households in the U.S. had “dropped by almost a 10th to $33,000 a year” since Obama’s inauguration. Similarly, net worth for black households fell an astonishing 34 percent between 2010 and 2013.

So if white Americans were truly looking for a presidential candidate who can harm minority progress, they’d vote for whichever candidate whose economic policy agenda most closely resembles Obama’s.

[SunkenCiv]

Another ignorant foreign bigot, spewing his hatred, and projecting his own racism onto his victims.

[GilGil]

[GOPJ]

“In its final 27 years, some of the dying white majority are so desperate to hold onto their dwindling power it’ll come as no surprise when they follow history’s powder and elect a reactionary, racist, sexist man,” Thrasher said.

What I don't get is that there's black and brown countries and cultutes ALL over the world - more than white. More countries - more cultures... The way white liberal elites act is that black and brown cultures are endangered... and only they can save them.

It's just not true - what's their motive? What are white liberal elites really up to?

Non-whites outnumber Whites by huge numbers... There's more people named name "Wang" in China then there are people living in the United States. More people named Azikiwe in Africa than all the people in Chicago, Baltimore and New York...

What's REALLY going on is blacks and browns in the US prop up CORRUPT WHITE LIBERAL ELITES LIKE HILLARY CLINTON.

[dsutah]

But what happened to Louisiana? Virginia? They went Democrat after having conservative Republicans for governors! Hopefully, Trump will be able to keep that from happening in other Republican-run states!

[BobL]

Virginia has one SCREW-UP Republican Party - I still remember when they BLATANTLY ran a Third Party candidate for Senator, in order to throw the election to the Democrats (Oliver North race, 1994). That doesn’t mean the state is Democrat, it means that the Republican Party there is sick.

Louisiana, for whatever reason, Republicans allowed a guy with way too much baggage to get the nomination for Governor, and paid the price for that...and Jindal wound up very unpopular at the end also. Also, the Dem there knew enough not to tie himself to the national party, until after winning.

So they’ll win a few, isolated, cases.

I will say, going back to Trump, if his people really do start clearing out the DC infrastructure, the Dems may find themselves with a lot less support up north - this Virginia shift is due almost totally to the growth of DC, as opposed to an increase in Hispanics and blacks, and it is reversible, with a guy who will put serious dudes at the top of the DC agencies.