America is at a pivotal intersection as it relates to its identity. For most of the two hundred and forty-eight years that the nation existed, white men have maintained control and directional autonomy over the country through a well-executed set of strategies that includes all kinds of barbaric practices, including slavery and all of its genocidal offshoots.
Throughout that time, they (white men) have maintained a system in which they benefit across all strata of American life while tightening the screws on maintaining control, even as current data points to the exciting dynamic of America becoming a majority-minority nation.
In Texas, minority groups with Hispanics as the dominant group already make up sixty percent of that state’s population.
The Republican fight to stop the inevitable from becoming inevitable is at the forefront of the widening understanding gap between the country’s two political parties.
With alternate immigration scenarios, the whole United States is projected to become majority-minority sometime between 2041 and 2046.
As a consequence, White men and the women who love them, afraid of the prospect of losing the built-in white privilege they have enjoyed for the duration of the Republic, have moved en-masse to the Republican party and have solidified behind a white supremacist convicted felon.
A closer look at the wedge issues that the Republicans have been using points directly to the concerns white Republicans have that the nation moving to a pluralistic society will relieve them of white privilege.
Hence, (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN), let us ensure that we take America back to when we could say and do whatever we wanted and no one could stop us.
Let’s look at the issues they are championing toward that end.
(1) Immigration
(2) Anti-Abortion
(3) Woke
(4) Book burning
(5) J D Vance’s attack on women who do not have children
(6) Trump’s race during his presidency to place political hacks on the Federal bench to usurp the will of the people through their legislators
Stop people of color from entering the Country, and force women to have babies even if they are raped or are victims of incest. Black and brown babies born as a consequence already face built-in early criminalization by the police from early childhood. There are more than enough prisons to hold them. They are dismantling public education and burning books to turn back the enlightenment of black people in particular.
They fundamentally believe these actions will stop the changing racial dynamics in the country. This explains the solid block of loyal support Trump enjoys.
White men will never admit to the unearned privileges they enjoy solely based on their skin color. Still, they will assail anyone who has a bite of the American dream through doors forced open through programs such as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative.
Legacy and other privileges that are routine for white people are far more questionable, as in many cases, the recipients are not worthy of the institutions they are allowed in. People of color, on the other hand, who benefit from DEI or other initiatives must first be super qualified even to be considered for a place in those same institutions.
Most importantly, we must seriously consider anyone who has problems with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Facing the very distinct prospect of whites becoming a minority, the Republican party has embarked on the processes I outlined, but that is only the beginning. The Judges and Justices farmed and placed on the Federal courts at all levels is insurance that even as whites become numerically fewer, the voices of the masses will be drowned out by the courts. Eileen Cannon and others at the District level, several Appellate circuits, and the reactionaries on the highest court have demonstrated that they are prepared to shred the Constitution in service to the leader of the white Supremacist movement.
Samuel Alito, one of the right-wing reactionaries on the highest court, was in a conversation with a documentary filmmaker posing as a right-wing activist. He was not shy about speaking his mind about where he stood in retaining white control.
“I don’t know that we can negotiate with the left in the way that needs to happen for the polarization to end,” Lauren Windsor said at one point in the conversation. “I think it’s a matter of, like, winning.”
“I think you’re probably right,” Alito replied. “One side or the other is going to win. I don’t know. There can be a way of working and living together peacefully. Still, it isn’t easy, you know, because there are differences in fundamental things that really can’t be compromised. They really can’t be compromised. So it’s not like you are going to split the difference.”
In short, the Right-wing white nationalists who populate the Heritage Foundation that populated the Supreme Court and other federal courts did so to overrule the will of the people even though the structural builtin-ins such as the so-called Electoral College and the outrageous two United States Senators per state have already drowned out the voices of tens of millions of Americans and all but cemented minority rule in the nation.
In 2000, George Bush lost the popular vote but was anointed president by the lawless right-wing Supreme Court that decided to stop the vote count and anoint Bush President.
Bush would go on to win reelection in 2004 and win the popular vote as a consequence of the 9⁄11 attacks. George Bush will be remembered as one of the worst presidents ever.
No Republican running for the presidency has won the popular vote since. The data has caused a paradigm shift in how the Republican people view their approach to national elections, Democracy, and much more.
No longer do they wrap themselves in the American flag; they no longer care about democracy. They now admire despots and dictators like Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, and Kim Jong Un.