In The Toss-up Between Democracy And Retaining White Control, Democracy Becomes Collateral Damage.

Addressing a crowd in Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden tried his best to frame to the American peo­ple the seri­ous­ness of the threat fac­ing the nation. Mere days before the November midterm elec­tions, it is an open ques­tion whether the vot­ers who will go to the polls in November remote­ly under­stand the seri­ous­ness of the threat posed by Donald Trump and the Republican party.
The threat Donald Trump and the Republican par­ty pos­es is not only to the revo­ca­tion of rights Americans once took for grant­ed; it goes expo­nen­tial­ly deep­er to the destruc­tion of the soci­etal norms that have set America apart from oth­er coun­tries over the last two centuries.
The threat posed by the right-wing supreme court Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell cre­at­ed will become inte­gral to the reshap­ing of America, arguably forever.
If you thought their attack on vot­ing rights, crim­i­nal­iz­ing giv­ing a scrap of food or a drink of water to a vot­er stand­ing in a vot­ing line they cre­at­ed, is out­ra­geous. Or the revo­ca­tion of autonomous rights two gen­er­a­tions of women have enjoyed as it relates to their bod­ies, be pre­pared for far worse.
The threat posed to the way we know America comes from trai­tors Russia has been cul­ti­vat­ing and embed­ding in the American body politic, under­stand­ing that the deep racism that plagues America is fer­tile soil for dis­in­for­ma­tion and, ulti­mate­ly, the inevitable unrav­el­ing of the republic.
Right-wing media out­lets have become the major dis­sem­i­na­tors of lies and dis­in­for­ma­tion that have become poi­so­nous in the water. Unfortunately, that is what most Americans lis­ten to and watch; the pres­i­dent has an uphill bat­tle cut­ting through the dai­ly rou­tine of lies and disinformation.

On Sunday after­noon, while at brunch with mem­bers of my fam­i­ly and some friends, the ques­tion of what was news came up.
I was once again remind­ed that even among ratio­nal peo­ple who under­stand the dan­gers of what is hap­pen­ing in the coun­try today, there was still a degree of what-about-sim.
For exam­ple, the dai­ly dose of lies and dis­in­for­ma­tion that emanates from FOX, Newsmax, and the oth­er right-wing media out­lets is so out­ra­geous that the attempts at cor­rec­tion that MSNBC and CNN make are viewed as left­ist per­spec­tives rather than the truth.
The dis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paign has gained so much trac­tion that the pres­i­den­t’s address to warn the American peo­ple of the dan­gers was not car­ried by any of the broad­cast net­works in prime­time; they showed reruns. Only the cable net­works MSNBC and CNN car­ried the pres­i­den­t’s address.
Donald Trump dom­i­nates the news and dis­cus­sions 24 – 7; some would argue there is no such thing as bad expo­sure, yet the duly elect­ed pres­i­dent of the United States was denied prime-time expo­sure at a time when the nation is in seri­ous peril.

The end game for the right is to have a white soci­ety where all of the pow­ers are con­trolled by whites. Data point­ing to a decrease in white birthrates and an increase in the birthrates of minor­i­ty groups has led to pan­ic on the right. Ending the 49-year deci­sion of Roe ver­sus Wade, which gave women auton­o­my over their bod­ies on the one hand, and Republican intran­si­gence on immi­gra­tion ought to make sense to those pay­ing attention.
It is not nec­es­sar­i­ly that Republicans are opposed to democ­ra­cy; the cal­cu­lus is that if there is a toss-up between democ­ra­cy and white con­trol, democ­ra­cy will have to go.
If it means throw­ing out decades of wari­ness and appre­hen­son of an avowed mor­tal ene­my because it can help to enhance the cause of the white Anglo-Saxons in America, then so be it.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.