I’m sure most everyone has seen by now how it was this past weekend, during one of Barry’s scant number of campaign stops during this 2014 election season, this one in Maryland, how large numbers of blacks could be seen heading for the nearest exist once Barry began speaking. Now while much was made of this rather unexpected political oddity, I’m wondering if we’re being too quick to make more out of it than what we should.
Even with apparent disdain for Barry, and some of his policies, on the rise, the vast majority of blacks would still rather vote for almost any Democrat than they would for almost any Republican. And that would be for the very simple reason that blacks are not going to vote for anyone who takes the position that it’s far better to get people back to work than to have a growing number of Americans simply living off the government.
It’s been especially since that failed experiment called "The Great Society" that the vast majority of blacks have now simply become accustomed to living on the government dole and as such have no motivation to do much of anything else, certainly not to go to work. And until that mindset can be significantly altered, don’t count on blacks, at least in large numbers, to be voting Republican any time soon. I don’t care what Rand Paul has to say.
There has been much talk, as there always is around election time, about how the Republicans need to work much harder at increasing the size of their tent and that they could do that be being far more welcoming to minorities. But the party has always been welcoming to minorities, all minorities. But the party has always been avoided by minorities because the party’s expectations were, and still are, considered as being too high.
So I’m not exactly sure what it is that those like Sen. Paul would like to have us do. Are we simply supposed to lower our expectations and to become more like the Democrats, where we too would discourage people from working while condoning the fact that they would rather live off the taxpayers? I mean, if that’s what it’s going to take to entice blacks to leave the Democrat Party, then maybe they should simply stay where they’re at.
Personally, I’ll welcome in with open arms anyone who wants to join my team. But having said that, they can rest assured that they will be made aware right up front that advocating the policies that are known to be the favorites of the opposition will simply not be tolerated. And that while we are perfectly willing to give anyone a hand up, we are far less willing to provide and endless stream of taxpayer funded handouts.
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