Sometimes the truth is obvious: we're a more racist and sexist country than we t

[tuolumnejim]

Can anyone tell me how enforcing out laws are racist? 

DUmbshit try's to be smart, fail's miserably

DanTex (16,448 posts)

Sometimes the truth is obvious: we're a more racist and sexist country than we thought.

And all the intellectual contortions that people are going through trying come up with some other explanation won't change that. Trump put bigotry on the ballot, and bigotry won.

It's not just that Trump is a bigot. He made bigotry the centerpiece of campaign. Even down to his slogan: "Again" referred to a time when there were few Latinos here, blacks had to drink at different fountains, women cooked and brought coffee, and gays had to remain closeted.

But there's no need to read into his slogan to figure that out. He actually said it. Not just one gaffe. Over and over. He said racist things in interviews, in speeches, even reading from the teleprompter. What made Trump "different" wasn't that he was a Reality TV star with no political experience. It's that he's the first candidate in a very long time to make explicit racism his campaign theme.

And he won. I understand the desire of people to find some other explanation, besides the obvious one. It's not a nice feeling to realize that bigotry is so widespread. Although, my guess is that people who actually suffer from discrimination are less surprised by this that straight white men like me (and most of the people writing the articles about how no it wasn't really about racism).

But let's be real. We're a country with a deep history of racism. And we're not the only one. So it's not all that surprising that there's a lot of it still there.

It's not the Democratic Party that has "hard truths" to face. It's the United States.

And do these morons really think the media is on Trumps side? 

Star Member JI7 (57,809 posts)
2. and add in the acceptance of that bigotry by the media

As if it was just a different position on an issue .

[Ralph Wiggum]

DUmmies can't handle the truth.  The real, inconvenient truth about themselves and their party.

[Big Dog]

DanTex (16,448 posts)

Sometimes the truth is obvious: we're a more racist and sexist country than we thought.

Speaking only for yourself and your fellow DUmmies, of course.

[98ZJUSMC]

DUmmies can't handle the truth.  The real, inconvenient truth about themselves and their party.

They can't recognize the truth.  Even the rare occurrences when the stumble on it, their indoctrination shuts down the cognitive process and they simply mumble banal Marxist bromides and long busted platitudes.

[CollectivismMustDie]

I've thought a great deal about this election, and an even greater deal about the reactions of the (D)Ummies, the left, and the media.

Their behavior before the election, can be summed up with some pretty simple words:

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Now, I'm not a devoutly religious guy, but that shoe more than just just fits, it has their miserable names written all over it.

Post election, they're all patting each other on the back and reassuring each other that they were right, boldly sending their intellectual riders out  in all directions to examine every remote and unrealistic possibility other than the dark and scary path of introspection. Sacred and forbidden, that path is.

The future looked brighter already after this election, but I never would have imagined that they'd continue to help things along like they are. If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I do not think I'd believe it.



CMD

[SVPete]

The truth is much simpler DTs, and I don't need several paragraphs and a handful of sentences to say it.

1.) Hilary was rejected as dangerously corrupt and inept.

2.) Lib/Prog ideas were rejected as failures.