The Rich and the White

One of the things I find most fascinating about the current leftist politics in the USA are the staggeringly patronizing assumptions made toward non-whites.

Apparently they assume that if you aren't white, you are also deaf, blind and stupid. How many times have I heard or read someone saying to a given group of people (such as the poor, or the black, or whatever), "Those *rich white* Republicans are NOT your friend, trust me!"

I've been poor. Me and my mom lived in 'the projects' when I was a kid, and were even homeless for awhile. I've been lower middle class and 'working poor', depending on the year, much of my life; now I am 'middle class', after 20 years of working 80 hours a week to be more qualified (and to make up for not having been able to afford college). I have several blacks, mexicans, and natives in my family, not to mention other liberal-favorites such as gay/lesbians, handicapped persons, former felons, etc. (it's really quite a family!). That's aside from being 15 nationalities myself, which makes me a little cynical about the whole divide-by-race issue. So when I hear all these rich white celebrities and so on talking about how they relate to everyone, it just makes me laugh.

I agree, most poor people and non-white people do not consider "rich white people" to be their friend.

But they have brains. It has not escaped all of them that the leaders of the Democratic party are just as "rich and white" -- if not moreso, and usually from fairly gratuitious means (e.g., singing songs vs. having spent a life building a business in the real world) -- than the leaders of the Republican party.

They may be poor, they may be black or mexican or chinese or native, but it has not escaped them that even those who state they are communist (ala Fonda) aren't sharing all their millions.

It has not escaped them that the people who "so relate to them," are "feeling for them" from homes in Beverly Hills, from limousines and Lear jets.

While the liberals made fun of Bush for having been the son of a wealthy man, they glossed over the detail that the man worked for a living, while Kerry's primary riches came from his wife inheriting money from her father's empire. His second wife, that is... who like his first was also incredibly rich. (Some men know how to pick 'em.) For some reason, a businessman who passed on some of the business to his son was bad-money, but a playboy who got it from his wife who got it handed to her, a homely old version of Paris Hilton Gone Political, that is ok-money? What nonsense is that?

How deaf, blind and stupid do the liberals really expect people to be? And why is that they only seem to expect people who are poor or non-white to be that stupid?

You don't see them doing much campaigning in say, middle-class Kansas. They know that people who work for a living--and they are all races--are not stupid. But they certainly want to be sure that people in the cities--the poor, the minorities--are well indoctrinated into the "republicans are all rich and racist" propaganda. Apparently they think that those people will believe it. Interesting.

Want to check what's real? It's easy. Get on a train or plane to anywhere in middle-class, typical America. Go to a city of say, 50,000 people or so (not a small town, not a metro). Walk through a mall. Visit a few businesses. Stop by a few schools. You know what you'll find? You'll find something that every day gets closer to Dr. King's great "dream": a world where people of all races play and study and work and socialize together. That is the middle class down into the upper layers of the poor (the working poor). These are most of the red spots on that 2004 Election Map. These are the people who do not think it's ok that religious zealots declared war on all democracy decades ago and have been bombing innocents around the world ever since--only one of many incidents of which was 9/11. These are the people who think that the Constitution and its freedoms matter. These are the people who think that if the people in a state want or don't want something, they should vote on it--rather than have some people in robes on the other side of the country decide for everybody.

Liberals attempting to leverage the inner-city and non-caucasion "dislike of rich people" and "dislike of whites" and use it against the Republicans, treat those voters like fools. Anybody who can read more than the propaganda in the paper, anybody who doesn't accept without question what the TV tells them, can see for themselves that nobody in today's world of politics -- nobody -- is poor. So casting that stone, especially when it is cast by billionaires and white people, is totally ludicrous. Do they think black people (as one example) can't SEE?