Posted on 02/28/2024 2:03:53 PM PST by Twotone
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson gave new details during an interview this week about his decision to switch from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.
Johnson made the remarks during an interview on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) “Verdict” podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson.
Johnson highlighted his background growing up poor to working class parents and being raised in a family where faith was central to their everyday lives. He said that while his family was not political, they had a very strong sense of right and wrong and put a priority on treating others well, working hard, and following the law.
“And so, I think I was always politically in a weird posture with the Democratic Party, because at its core — and I didn’t understand this at the very beginning — … you sort of inherit the Democratic Party as a cultural heirloom, when you’re African American in this country, it sort of gets handed to you, as part of who you are,” he said. “I had more phone calls with people distraught about this party switch than I ever would have gotten if I had told people that I was actually leaving the church. There’s no question about it. There’s no doubt about it. I will say that loudly and on the record. I had more panicked phone calls from people genuinely concerned about what I was doing and how I could do this than I would have gotten if I’d said I just don’t think I’m into this Jesus thing anymore.”
“At the Democratic Party’s core, as I was saying, is a belief that how things turn out for you in this country are largely determined by things that are outside of your control, the race you’re born, the neighborhood you’re born in, it just kind of excuses away your failures and excuses away your successes to something that’s out of your control,” he later added. “If you’re successful and you’re white males, it’s because of course you were. And if you’re unsuccessful as an African American, it’s both the deck was stacked against you. And I just wasn’t a person who ever believed that. And that wasn’t how I was raised. And it’s not what I was taught. But it was the overarching political philosophy of my party.”
Johnson said that politicians need to be more honest about what the “winning formula” is often times when it comes to dealing with policy issues.
“The winning formula ends up being exactly what the conservative ideology would tell you,” he said. “It has to do with taking upon yourself the responsibility for yourself, and not believing that the Democratic party or any party is there to save you. And the Democratic Party wants you to believe you can’t get there without them.”
Amen to that.
Well, it sounds encouraging.
However, I have become so skeptical and suspicious of politicians and what they say and do, I will reserve any more judgment until we see how this plays out.
Good for him for saying it.
Just think of all the African-American children now being taught in school that showing up on time and doing your work is subjugation to white privilege.
How’s that going to work out for them?
Welcome Mayor Johnson. I think you’ll like life off the plantation.
He should reassure his distraught base by saying that he’ll be a staunch RINO.
““It has to do with taking upon yourself the responsibility for yourself, and not believing that the Democratic party or any party is there to save you.”
BINGO!
Seek a real education and accept no substitute.
I like this a lot, it is a big city and will have some influence on and give some cover to other blacks who are thinking about or wanting to switch, maybe it will even offer some cover for other black mayors and officeholders to switch.
That’ll be a disaster.
“a cultural heirloom” - that is some powerful wordsmithery there. The term could go viral so badly that the left has to come up with a “vaccine” to prevent the spread.
Ho ho ho Ha ha ha
Really nice interview!
Yep. The idiotic ideology hurts them as much as anyone.
Should have stayed democrat and became a dino.
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