The Democrat Party, at least these days, seems to be the political party that the lazy, uninformed and the ignorant among us are now quite content to call home. Much thinking out loud is now going on amongst the ranks of the Republican Party, especially after having lost yet again to a guy who has no business being the neighborhood dog catcher, much less president. And the theme that I keep hearing is one that describes how the Republican Party somehow must become more welcoming to minorities and if it were only willing to increase the size if it's tent its prospects regarding future electoral victories would be so much brighter. We continue to hear such drivel from some many notables within the party, but just because they are viewed as such, doesn't necessarily make them right.
Recently we heard from that old buffoon, Colon Powell, whose claim to still be a Republican rings more than just a little hollow these days. Old Colon actually went so far as to accuse the Republican party of having a problem with racism. "There is a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party," Colon said. Adding, "They still sort of look down on the minority." That right there made it obvious to me that Colon, and the many frauds like him, are what the party needs to avoid, not embrace. He's another of those given far too much credibility, and appears to be another one intent on dividing people by race. But what his evidence for making such a claim in the first place? Apparently it was comments from Sarah Palin who had used the term "shuck and jive" in describing Barry's idiotic response to the Benghazi attack.
Look, I'll be the first to admit that there does still exist in this country a certain level of racism. What I choose to disagree with is from which direction it seems to be coming. It springs from the same direction that it always has, from the left. From the days of the Ku Klux Klan, which was in fact a Democrat organization, to the modern day Democrat Party, racism is nearly everywhere you look. Look at the slander endured by Mia Love and Allen West from those enlightened ones on the left. And for those old enough to remember Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings, never before in the history of this country had such an honorable man been treated in such a racist manner. Or, the names that Condoleezza Rice was called when then President Bush appointed her Secretary of State. And all by left.
And then we have a favorite of mine, Sen. Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American from here in Florida and a man considered by many to be a possible 2016 GOP presidential candidate. Not that long ago he was heard to say that Republicans need to be more inclusive of minorities and immigrant communities. Rubio released a statement pointing out what he saw as being his party’s failures in this area. He said: "The conservative movement should have particular appeal to people in minority and immigrant communities who are trying to make it, and Republicans need to work harder than ever to communicate our beliefs to them. I look forward to working on these goals with my new and returning colleagues in Congress and hope the president will get behind our efforts."
Now as much as I might hate to do so, I'm going to have to disagree with the good senator. Because the way I see it, the act of selecting the political party that one chooses to affiliate with is, in fact, an action, that when taken, tells us a lot about the person who is doing the choosing and what it is that a particular individual might actually believe in. If, as Sen. Rubio says, that the conservative movement should have a particular appeal to minorities, then why would they not choose to become part of that movement. There must be a reason. I would argue that for most, but not all, minorities, the appeal remains to be one that consists of how much they can get for themselves with the least amount of effort being required of them in return. Which is really something that would naturally point them away from the Republican Party.
Therefore most, but not all, minorities quite naturally simply migrate to the Democrat Party, where nothing is ever asked from them in exchange for some pretty extensive, as well as pretty costly, government goodies. Well, there is one thing that's asked for in return, that being of course, that these recipients of a growing list of government goodies, vote for Democrats. So how is an opposition party supposed compete with that, and still remain faithful to what it claims are its conservative principles? Especially when most of those who call themselves Republicans, or conservatives, are the ones constantly being forced to cover the rapidly rising costs of the government giveaways being distributed, or re-distributed, to every Democrat constituency as their reward for continuing to vote for Democrats.
Let's be honest here, there are very few today who call themselves Democrats who possess any level of concern for the general wellbeing of the country as a whole. And there are even fewer of those who can be described as patriots, to be found anywhere within the ranks of the Democrat Party. Thus the Democrat Party is essentially nothing more than the party of "ME", as long as I'm getting what I need from the government, screw everybody else and screw the country. Republicans and, to a greater extent, conservatives, on the other hand, simply are not wired up to think that way. They wish to be left alone and to be allowed to provide for themselves and for their families with minimal interference from an increasingly nosy government. Which I suppose one could say puts us at a distinct disadvantage in the political arena.
Those who make up the majority of our minority population in this country have no desire, whatsoever, to be responsible for their own lives and apparently they don't feel that they should be. Which I suppose you could say, makes them a relatively easy mark for the Democrat Party. Because the Democrat Party is looking to enlist as many people as possible as it sets out on its drive to engineer a complete collapse of our free market economy as well as to eradicate in its entirety the belief system on which our country was founded and that encourages the possessing of good moral behavior, strong personal character and a fundamental belief in God and Country. Democrats have no such belief in God and they loath their country, to the point of seeing it as being nothing more than as a source of evil.
So as Republicans, and as conservatives, where does that leave us, exactly. Well, to tell you the truth, I'm just not sure. We appear to be at the mercy of those who would rather let this country, the greatest experiment in human freedom ever conceived, simply go down the tube than to make the necessary sacrifices that will keep it afloat so that those who come after them will have a chance at living in freedom. So tell me this, how do you combat a mentality that has now so infected an entire class of people to the point that they have become completely content to live out there lives being nothing more than parasites on the rest of us? And matters are further complicated by the fact that we have a political party who is willing, even eager, to assist them in that endeavor and that asks for nothing in return but their votes.
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