Posted on 07/24/2018 8:24:08 AM PDT by rktman
The central premise of my new book – that the plantation defines not merely the origin but the entire history of the Democratic Party – will seem at the first glance, and for those unfamiliar with my previous work, far-fetched or even crazy. The old Democratic plantation system, after all, was involuntary; it was based on forcibly confining slaves. Today, however, the Democrats don’t have anyone penned up in this way, and they certainly aren’t forcing anyone to work.
This objection, however, can be answered by recalling how the antebellum Democrats regarded the old plantation. Democratic Sen. James Chesnut regarded his slaves as having it so good on his South Carolina plantation that they cost more than the work they produced. Asked if he ever had runaways he quipped, “Never! It’s pretty hard work to keep me from running away from them.”
Chesnut’s wife, the spirited Mary Boykin Chesnut, wrote in her diary in 1861, shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, “Now if slavery Is as disagreeable to Negroes as we think it, why don’t they all march over the border where they would be received with open arms?” Her point is that the slaves who want to leave can leave; the white men are all at the front and there is no one except women and children to stop them.
Her deeper implication is that in reality many slaves prefer the security of the plantation to the shock and responsibilities of freedom. The plantation, she suggests, has become not merely a prison of the body but also a prison of the mind. It holds its population in debased psychological confinement even when there is the opportunity to get up and go.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Funny! At first I thought it said “platform” not “plantation” and thought...there is no platform. Plantation makes complete sense.
Contrary to many pundits who camouflage this fact, progressives are the ones who invented white nationalism and white supremacy in their modern and most virulent forms for the purpose of keeping poor whites in thrall to the Democratic Party. Progressives, in other words, were America’s original hate group, and their opponents, the conservative Republicans, were the original “black lives matter” movement.
Okay, I gotta by this book.
I’ve heard some dispute about it, but I do think the plantation serves as a good metaphor for Democrat-ruled precincts.
And Herself the Cold and Joyless proudly boasts of being “Progressive”.
Remember the same gang brought us income tax and Prohibition.
On the antebellum plantations, people of African ancestry were used to convert cotton seeds to bales of cotton, for the economic benefit of their Democrat masters.
In the modern Urban Plantations, people of African ancestry are used to convert (other people’s) money to votes for the economic benefit of their Democrat masters.
The Democrats are not democratic, and I refuse to call them that.
The very phrase, 'the Democratic party', grates on my ears.
BTTT
[snip] White racism and white supremacy declined dramatically in the aftermath of World War II – Hitler did more to undermine it than even the civil rights movement which benefited from the discrediting of fascist doctrines of Nordic supremacy – and this meant LBJ could no longer count on a solid South of white racist Democrats. There were quite simply fewer and fewer of them.
Attracted by the message of free markets, anticommunism, patriotism and upward mobility, nonracist whites in the South had started to move rapidly toward the Republican Party. The Democrats were losing their base of white racist voters and LBJ saw that this represented perhaps the greatest catastrophe for the Democratic Party since the Civil War shut down the old Democratic plantation. Something drastic needed to be done.
[snip] Obama presided over the Democrats’ move toward a multicultural plantation, complete with a sustaining ideology of identity politics that reconciles each ethnic group to its political captivity, seeking to create the modern equivalent of the contented slave. Of course today’s enslaved, while free in principle to leave the plantation, in practice rarely do so. This can be explained through psychologist Martin Seligman’s concept of “learned helplessness.” The Democrats have created learned helplessness among their captive constituencies, and this keeps them bound by invisible cords to the plantation lifestyle.
bkmk
I don’t know how many of ya’ll are from the “Old South” I am. And most all of you have heard the same statements from Democrats as I have. “Republicans are racist”. “Conservatives are racist”. “You are Conservative so you are racist”. Blah, blah, blah...…
I grew up in a small town just south of B’ham in the 60’s on. I know who the racists were. Democrats. George Wallace anyone?
When I point this out to Liberals they just deny, deny, deny. Can’t decide if they are just ignorant, stupid, lying or their brain just won’t let them go there and confront their racist past/present. Probably all of the above.
Mr. D’Souza articulates the same arguments I’ve been making for years. I’m happy that someone has finally written this in an easy to understand format. Saving. And direct to any Social media post that wants to elevate Progressivism to anything above the racists that they are.
Not that it will do any good.....but it will save me a hell of a lot of typing.
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