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Suggested Discussion Outline

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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S HOUSE-OF-CARDS BASE

The real thesis of “What’s The Matter With White People” is “What’s The Matter With The Democratic Party” because it has lost touch with blue-collar workers who are white.

The following Suggested Discussion Outline also includes several of the other incompatibilities in the Democratic Party’s House-of-Cards Base, as outlined in the Suggested Answers to the Short Quiz.

A. The Democratic Party’s War on Blue Collar Workers -- its policy of exporting American jobs.

A-1. Is the Democratic Party’s policy of exporting American jobs due to campaign contributions (aka as we have studied many times in the past –- bribery of, and extortion by, the pols)???

A-2. If anyone thinks the Democratic Party does NOT embrace the policy of exporting American jobs, then why hasn’t it simply renewed 1968 Executive Order 11387 IAW our Six-Degrees-Of-Separation E-mail Campaign of 2/12/2014???


B. The Democratic Party’s War on Blue Collar Workers -- its policy of importing de facto slaves (aka Illegal Aliens) to perform jobs in the U.S. that cannot be exported geographically.

B-1. When we studied Illegal Immigration for our 1/10/2008 meeting, we agreed that Illegal Immigration was nothing more than reversing the outcome of the American Civil War -- the importation of de facto slave labor to take jobs in the U.S. that cannot be exported geographically.

B-2. And we concluded that minimum-wage laws do not apply to most Illegal Immigrants for either (or both) of two reasons: (A) Illegal Immigrants are afraid to complain since that would call attention to their immigration status, and (B) perhaps more importantly, many if not most Illegal Immigrants (particularly in the agricultural sector) are provided with food and lodging and the minimum-wage laws are impotent vis-à-vis what employers can charge for the food and lodging.

B-3. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform ("CIR") bill that passed the U.S. Senate in 2013 and that had been spear-headed by the so-called Gang of Eight (four Democrats and four Republicans) is simply a carbon-copy of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 since both (A) call for securing the border, (B) call for an e-verify system for employers to ascertain quickly the immigration status of a worker, (C) call for stiff fines and jail sentences for employers who hire Illegal Immigrants, and (D) provide a path to citizenship for Illegal Immigrants already present in the United States.

B-4. America’s immigration system is NOT broken as our Pols love to claim -- Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have simply refused to enforce the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 PRESUMABLY IN RETURN FOR “CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS”!!!

B-5. Is the refusal of the Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to enforce the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 short-sighted because, in the long run, Latinos are typically devout Roman Catholics and, in many other ways, fit the profile of Republicans, for example in supporting family values???


C. The Democratic Party’s War on America’s Permanent Under-Caste -- which it attempts to disguise with fraudulent rhetoric on The 1% vs. The 99% (fraudulent because the Democratic Party has never intended to do anything beneficial for America’s Permanent Under-Caste).

C-1. We have already discussed the 1%-vs.-99% fraud zillions of times!!!

C-2. Is the Democratic Party’s War on America’s Permanent Under-Caste based on the cynical view that the Permanent Under-Caste has nowhere else to go??? -- unlike Blue Collar workers who, as described by our author, have picked up and left!!!


D. The Democratic Party’s War Between Jews and African-Americans -- which existed long before Rev. Jesse Jackson called NYC Hymie Town while running for the 1984 Democratic Party Presidential Nomination.

D-1. Hymie is a derogatory term for Jew and NYC in 1984 was the largest Jewish city in the world (it may have been surpassed recently by Tel Aviv).

D-2. Although African-American Jesse Jackson later issued a de rigeuer apology, there was quite a bit written about how his comment rang true with African Americans who believe that American wars are fought disproportionately by African Americans and the wars are fought primarily to advance the interests of Jews.

D-3. Does this rift still persist as Israel feels it has “been thrown under the bus” during the Iran nuclear negotiations just concluded???

D-4. Is The Democratic Party’s War Between Jews and African-Americans reflected through the years by, for example (A) all of the SIX NYC Senators (NJ-NY-CT), including Hillary Clinton, voting FOR the Iraq War, (B) NY’s Senator Chuck Schumer, the next leader of the Senate Democrats, announcing 8/6/2015 that he will join New Jersey's Democratic Senator Robert Menendez in opposing the Iran Nuclear Deal, and (C) Senator Menendez (D-NJ), former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, maintaining that he was forced off the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for opposing the Iran nuclear deal (and that the corruption charges that President Obama’s Department of Justice has brought against him are not only bogus, but typical of criminal charges that the DOJ brings against political opponents such as CIA Director General Patraeus for minor infractions, but never brought against political allies such as Hillary Clinton for major violations of national security)???

D-5. Is The Democratic Party’s War Between Jews and African-Americans much more important than the mere number of Jewish voters in key Red States such as NJ-NY-CT and FL, because of (though probably Politically Incorrect to mention) the predominance of Jewish ownership in the American news media and in the American motion-picture industry???


E. Other Fault Lines in the Democratic Party’s House-Of-Cards Base.

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The Democratic Party’s Essential Racial-Segregation Wing

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Our author, Joan Walsh, continually rhapsodizes about The New Deal Coalition in her book “What’s The Matter With White People?” which, as previously noted, is really about “What’s The Matter With The Democratic Party” because it has lost touch with blue-collar workers who are white.

However, she turns a blind eye to the fact that THE ESSENTIAL BACKBONE of The New Deal Coalition was the Democratic Party’s Racial-Segregation Wing (aka “The Solid South”).

The Solid South comprised 17 states in which racial segregation was enforced by Jim Crow laws which not only required legally-segregated facilities (restaurants, hotels, etc., etc.) but two separate side-by-side (separate and grossly UNEQUAL) K-12 public school systems.

They were the 11 states of the Civil War Confederacy (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia), plus 6 border states (Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma and West Virginia).

These 17 states regularly provided the Democratic Party with approximately 40% of its votes for U.S. President in the Electoral College.

Indeed, without the Democratic Party’s Racial-Segregation Wing, there would not have been much of a New Deal --

(1) Yes, Roosevelt would have won in 1932 and 1936.
(2) But his re-election in 1940 would have been a real squeaker – 272 to 259.
(3) And Roosevelt would have LOST in 1944 – 254 to 277.
(4) While Truman would have LOST in a LANDSLIDE in 1948 – 180 to 312.
(5) It should also be noted that Kennedy would also have LOST in a LANDSLIDE in 1960 – 192 to 330.

The last two results already reflected The Solid South leaving the Democratic Party -- in 1948 five of the Southern States with 48 electoral votes going to Strom Thurmond and his Dixiecrats and, in 1960, six of the Southern States with 58 electoral votes going for Nixon to start a trend that resulted in the Solid South becoming solidly Republican.

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There are two reasons why liberals should NOT do a victory dance vis-à-vis the Southern Segregationists.

First, segregation by law was dismantled fairly quickly after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

[Indeed, Yours Truly recounts how, according to the North Carolina State Police, he was within 60 seconds of being assassinated while serving in the first U.S. Government task force assembled to dismantle the dual-school system (this was during the Summer of 1966, two years before the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King) in an 835-word description of what transpired comprising “Reason No. 1” which are paragraphs 8-35 of the posting entitled “Tony Reali (GoodMorningAmerica-ESPN) and Lynching Tom Brady” under Participant Comments for our 2/11/2015 meeting on “Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America” with the Tom Brady Lynching illustrating everything that is wrong with the American news media.]

[Incidentally, the National Football League’s Wells Report on the Tom Brady Lynching was released 5/6/2015 as we began studying Prof. Diane Ravitch’s book on The Hoax of the School Privatization Movement for our 6/17/2015 meeting. Our stated reason for studying the Ravitch book was that our pols and the mainstream media are trying to distract us with incidents of alleged police brutality rather than doing anything to mainstream America’s Permanent Under-Caste living in our Inner-Cities. Accordingly, the Tom Brady Lynching was once more relevant in a posting in the Participant Comments Section for the 6/17/2015 meeting entitled “America’s Apartheid ‘Justice’ System -- Baltimore, American Inner-Cities and Tom Brady.” THAT POSTING ANALYZED, INTER ALIA, THE NFL’S WELLS REPORT AND ITS EVIDENCE REGARDING THE SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES DESCRIBED IN THE 2/15/2015 POSTING DESCRIBED IN THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH OF THIS POSTING -- SHOWING THAT THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE DEMONSTRATED THAT TOM BRADY’S PATRIOTS HAD NOT, REPEAT NOT, TAMPERED WITH THE PRESSURE OF ANY FOOTBALLS -- AND, AMAZINGLY, THAT THE OPPOSING TEAM WHICH HAD MADE THE COMPLAINT, HAD IN FACT TAMPERED WITH THE PRESSURE OF THEIR OWN FOOTBALLS!!! WHILE, INCREDIBLY, THE CONCLUSION OF THE WELLS REPORT WAS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT IT DISCLOSED!!!]

Second, racial prejudice was just as rampant in the North as in the South, as documented in “Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920’s” (copyright 1991 by the University of California Regents) by Sociology Professor Kathleen Blee.

The Ku Klux Klan had had two heydays, one immediately following the Civil War and the other in the 1920’s.

In the 1980’s, Prof. Blee realized that all of the participants in the 1920’s KKK heyday were reaching the end of their normal life expectancies, so she decided to interview them before they passed away.

One startling finding was that the Ku Klux Klan was just as strong in the North as it was in the South.

The other startling finding was that, contrary to the present-day myth that the KKK was simply a fringe movement involving the dregs of society, it was in fact an organization of the Pillars of Society -- "all the best people belonged”!!!

Indeed, its organizing strategy was to recruit the senior minister of the most prestigious protestant church in each community. The organization materials stressed religious principles and family values which was why the KKK was so successful in saturating the upper echelons of society in virtually every community across the country.

However, there was one exception. The organization materials also stressed that it was important to provide cohesion for the group which, it was claimed, could best be provided by selecting a category of people for the group to hate!!! Saying that it really didn’t matter whether the category to be hated comprised African-Americans, Catholics, etc., etc. While suggesting that the Senior Minister of the most prestigious protestant church select whatever group his congregants already hated!!!

Did you ever wonder why the KKK was always burning crosses on the lawns of victims???

It was because the person in the bed sheet on the White Horse at the front of the formation was most likely the senior minister of the most prestigious protestant church in town!!!

Regardless of whether the town was Northern or Southern!!!

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This information raises some additional discussion issues --

1. Didn’t the New Deal Coalition about which our author continually rhapsodized, already contain incompatible groups long before white blue-collar workers deserted the Democratic Party beginning in the 1970’s and 1980’s???

2. Instead of practicing “identity politics” which results in trying to divide Americans, wouldn’t it be preferable to try to unite Americans behind laudatory goals such as “loving your neighbor as yourself” (aka The Golden Rule)??? [After all, the overwhelming majority of Americans self-identify as religious and virtually all of the world’s major religions are centered on The Golden Rule.]

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