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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe White Man’s Last Tantrum?
American pundits are missing the bigger point about the Republican shutdown of the U.S. government and the GOPs threatened default on Americas credit. The real question is not what policy concessions the Tea Partiers may extract, but rather can a determined right-wing white minority ensure continuation of white supremacy in the United States?
For years, political scientists have been talking about how the demographic changes in the United States are inexorably leading to a Democratic majority, with Hispanics and Asian-Americans joining African-Americans and liberal urban whites to erode the political domains of white conservatives and white racists.
But those predictions have always assumed a consistent commitment to the democratic principle of one person, one vote and a readiness of Republicans to operate within the traditional standards of democratic governance. But what should now be crystal clear is that those assumptions are faulty.
Instead of accepting the emergence of this more diverse and multi-cultural America, the Right through the Tea Party-controlled Republicans has decided to alter the constitutional framework of the United States to guarantee the perpetuation of white supremacy and the acceptance of right-wing policies.
In effect, we are seeing the implementation of a principle enunciated by conservative thinker William F. Buckley in 1957: The white community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically. Except now the Buckley rule is being applied nationally.
For years, political scientists have been talking about how the demographic changes in the United States are inexorably leading to a Democratic majority, with Hispanics and Asian-Americans joining African-Americans and liberal urban whites to erode the political domains of white conservatives and white racists.
But those predictions have always assumed a consistent commitment to the democratic principle of one person, one vote and a readiness of Republicans to operate within the traditional standards of democratic governance. But what should now be crystal clear is that those assumptions are faulty.
Instead of accepting the emergence of this more diverse and multi-cultural America, the Right through the Tea Party-controlled Republicans has decided to alter the constitutional framework of the United States to guarantee the perpetuation of white supremacy and the acceptance of right-wing policies.
In effect, we are seeing the implementation of a principle enunciated by conservative thinker William F. Buckley in 1957: The white community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically. Except now the Buckley rule is being applied nationally.
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The White Man’s Last Tantrum? (Original Post)
ashling
Oct 2013
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enough
(13,262 posts)1. Link to Robert Parry's article, which is worth reading the whole thing:
I forgot the link .
Recursion
(56,582 posts)2. Oh, surely not the last (nt)
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. k&r for exposure. n/t
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kalli007
(683 posts)4. Funny they got an orange man to throw it.........