Funny! At first I thought it said “platform” not “plantation” and thought...there is no platform. Plantation makes complete sense.
I’ve heard some dispute about it, but I do think the plantation serves as a good metaphor for Democrat-ruled precincts.
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.
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