Will the Real Liberal Please Stand Up Pt. 8

White shaming. White man-hating. White apologists. Many of us scratch our heads at the obsession of race and race shaming perpetuated by the left. Why do they feel the need to focus so heavily upon white men? What have white men done to any of them, whoever they are, to foster so much hate and resentment?


Let us not gloss over the western expansion of the United States at the expense of Native Americans, nor shall we ignore our horrendous slavery ridden history. We all understand how disgusting the slaughter of one group of people was, and the inexcusable exercise of human slavery here in the United States. And lest someone scream that, "It was white men who did that," yes, we can all agree that white men were responsible for those heinous acts.


Unfortunately for leftists, we all live in the twenty-first century; over one hundred fifty years since the abolishment of slavery and around the same for the end of the Indian massacres. Why the continued focus on white men then?


Feminists will scream that white men control the workplace, thereby causing a significant pay differential between the sexes (unproven and largely false). Minorities tout white men keeping them from high paying jobs, even when they have similar qualifications and educations. Some of this is true, and as Americans we must continue to push beyond the narrow-minded kaleidoscope of skin color.


But let us get to the real reason the left has chosen white men as the face of evil in our country. The answer is simple if you take a step away from those who live for media sound bites and refuse to think for themselves--money.


White shaming is nothing new in the U.S., but it has become much more prevalent in recent American history. Campaign promises by the previous administration to "spread the wealth" and the passing of the Affordable Care Act required assets to be equitably distributed across all regions and sectors of the American population.


Since whites make up approximately seventy to seventy-five percent of the American population, it's quite easy to understand who is in control of much of the monetary keepings of the country. The shaming of white males is not accidental. If the left could successfully create a surge of anti-whiteness among its most devout loyalists, the ACA, and other tax initiatives would be simple to push through and sustain, at least in their minds.


The problem with this mindset was then presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, whose boisterous attitude and straight-shooting rhetoric promised an end to the social re-engineering project most know as political correctness.


Silencing the majority through shaming, legislation, and liberal judicial rulings has been on the docket of liberals for decades.  The plan isn't and wasn't new, but they had no way of moving the agenda forward until President Obama took office and the left controlled both houses of Congress. Obama was quick to take the side of "the victim" in most white on black police encounters, even when evidence showed the officer(s) were without blame.


The theory was that whites should be ashamed of both their forefather's actions, and the current "plight" of minorities across the nation.  Branding a white male a racist became cliché over eight years, without thought nor care whether the accusation was right. If the shaming were significant, the left surmised, the money would flow much easier. Guilt, in their thought process, would force white males to open their proverbial wallets to ease the burden of the oppressed.


The problem with this line of thought, however, was that people (white, black, Hispanic, male, female, LGBTQ, etc.) began waking up to what was going on. Three times in President Obama's tenure did he cede large numbers of Congressional and gubernatorial seats.  The largest influx of republicans taking over House, Senate and local political seats was unprecedented in American politics. The backlash had begun...

Will the Real Liberal Please Stand Up Pt. 7

Racism is real. The sooner we all come to terms with this fact, the sooner we can all move beyond the notion that skin color defines who and what we are. This disorder exists among every race, and in many cases is sub-cultural; that is, many of the same race will harbor ill will toward someone lighter or darker than them. The need to differentiate ourselves from someone or everyone else is a strange human trait.


More concerning to me, however, is the blatant call to eradicate or mitigate the population of one race by another.  As we are all aware, Adolph Hitler perpetuated the nastiest, most disgusting form of racism when he slaughtered millions of innocent Jews in the 1930's and 1940's.  On par with this level of destruction is the systematic elimination of the black race, specifically here in the United States.  Even more concerning is how the left has embraced and softened the verbiage around this form of eugenics in an effort to make it palatable and rational to many.


Like you, I grow weary of the comparisons of fellow Americans to Hitler and the Nazis of WWII infamy. With that said, it is important to understand that eugenics is still quietly at play in our world today.


Without going down the path of politics, even though the intent of this continuing series is to draw a distinction between today's liberal and yesterday's democrat versus conservatives in America, I would like to focus on the history of abortion and what is today referred to as "a woman's right to choose."  Again, I'm not interested in the partisan political rhetoric that usually surrounds the topic (I, for one, do not believe this issue is a political one; rather it is a matter of conscience, or lack thereof), but the history and rationale for its legalization by the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger.


In a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, a leader of the eugenics movement, Sanger wrote the following:

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. And the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."


Interestingly, blacks make up between twelve and fifteen percent of the population in the United States, but roughly thirty-five percent of aborted babies are black.  Planned Parenthood's clinics are located an astounding seventy-eight percent of the time in black neighborhoods.


How, then, can it be stated that Margaret Sanger supported "a woman's right to choose" when she clearly advocated for the elimination of a race in its entirety?  The most grossly negligent attitude the conservative movement has had is forgoing the notion that abortion was about racial dominance, and more about killing unborn babies.  While the latter is utterly disgusting, in my opinion the systematic and legal means of slowing or eliminating a race must not be ignored.


In conjunction with Sanger's desire to push forward the legalization of abortion is the availability of the birth control pill.  "The pill," as it is more commonly referred to, was designed to keep a woman from being pregnant, but Sanger's desire was to make it readily available to black women, like abortion, to keep the race from propagating.


Sanger's message has obviously been twisted and women in the United States have taken the legalization of abortion in a different direction, mostly, than Planned Parenthood's founder intended. However, the fact that so many abortion clinics are found in predominantly black neighborhoods today should not be shrugged off and ignored.


The question must be asked: Why is the legalization of abortion so dear to a liberal's heart?


Part eight of this continuing series will focus on the shaming of a targeted group of Americans for causes other than those liberals claim.

Will the Real Liberal Please Stand Up Pt. 6

For decades, politicians have pandered to the poverty stricken and uneducated in hopes that votes will be cast in their direction on election day. Promises of help and prosperity are bantered about like wind through the Southside of Chicago in autumn. Without fail, the racial divide has been further perpetuated by those who promise much, but deliver on little.


The migration of former slaves, and children of slaves from the post-Civil War south to urban areas in the north created a dilemma for their northern counterparts--where to house them. As with most people, blacks moved to areas where jobs were more likely to be had, specifically manufacturing bases in more industrialized areas.


The Great Depression caused mass unemployment and homelessness. The 1937 Housing Act was put forth by the U.S. government to help those middle class families in the most need by granting them public housing until the financial crisis passed. To presume that only white middle class families were impacted by the Depression is illogical and inconceivable.  Black families were hit very hard.


After World War II came to a close, whites in northeastern and mid-western states were given low interest loans, primarily through the Veterans Administration to help them purchase homes in surrounding suburbs. The loans were granted, primarily, to whites, which ultimately forced blacks to the inner cities. Public housing was launched and the American ghettos were born.*


Never to allow a vote to pass them by, politicians promised more and more money to those living in public housing, but the money rarely materialized into opportunity. Soon, alcohol and drug trafficking became the norm in the inner-cities, as those illegal activities provided a means of income for many poor blacks.


Liberal politicians continued to finance housing and other public assistance programs, rather than seek out potential business interests in those areas. Businesses refused to locate themselves in many of the low income neighborhoods as violence increased and other illegal activities flourished. Promises of continued financial sustenance assured votes from the most desperate to politicians who cared little for their well-being and more for their own personal public careers.


The herding of blacks to the inner cities, preventing them access to jobs, and furthering their plight into financial distress has been the worst form of racism perpetrated on a group of people since slavery ended in 1865. Ineffective liberal ideology has created what many refer to as the "nanny state." Local governments formed on the backs of those they claimed to help, but in reality kept from prospering and the votes rolling in their favor.


It is time that individuals begin understanding what REAL racism is.  Moving beyond something as trivial as skin color is paramount for a country as diverse as the United States. Real racism creates a sense of hopelessness, and a lack of opportunity. How do we correct these problems?--businesses and job opportunities for the most qualified individual, regardless of race or gender. That is the simple and right fix.


Until such time that those left in poverty understand that their situation, in many cases, was forced upon them, they are doomed to continue down the same path. Electing officials who can offer tax breaks and security for new businesses in neighborhoods badly in need of opportunity will ease much of their burden.


My words of advice: Stand against racism and stop electing officials who want to keep you from rising from poverty! Demand from them true help, rather than recompense for your current situation.


Part seven of this continuing series will include further evidence of racism perpetuated by the liberal left.

*http://reengageinc.org/research/brief_history_public_housing.pdf

Will the Real Liberal Please Stand Up Pt 5

Extreme ideology, on any side of the political or religious spectrum is dangerous. The fall of the Roman Empire was brought upon, in part, by government overspending, political corruption and instability, immorality, and mass immigration. A swing to the political left predicated most, if not all, of the aforementioned, and in a few short decades the Empire was in ruins.


What does this have to do with today's American republic? The historical similarities are eerily relevant and closely related. The past eight years in the United States were arguably the worst, from an economic perspective, in six decades. Many arguments have been made about the Great Recession's cause, but many leading economists point to the housing market bubble that burst in the late nineties/early 2000's. Coupled with exorbitant spending during wartime from 2002-present, in addition to an ever increasing social welfare system, and one can see that the economic woes of ancient Rome have much in common with the U.S.'s current financial situation.


Continued political misgivings, most especially from the left, have created social unrest and political divide amongst the population. Talk of civil war, secession, and government usurping have become all the rage by the liberals who have seen a major decline in government power-sharing since 2010. Cries of "medical rights" ranging from insurance for all to abortions for any have been the calling card of many extreme left-wingers for decades.


Most recently, an attack on free speech has been instilled in the liberal mind. Anyone disagreeing with their positions is branded a racist, bigot, homophobe, misogynist, or (God forbid that you are a white male) someone bathed in the waters of white privilege.


A strange desire to give their freedom to the government and allow the government to care for their every want and need is a deeply seeded piece of the liberal foundation. Perplexed are the individuals who live in the center or to the right of the political spectrum over this notion of Constitutional abstention.


Extreme leftism defies law and order, wades in the waters of self-indulgence and irresponsibility, and thumbs its nose at social norms. Social justice, in their opinion, outweighs law and order. Irreconcilable is the notion that the two can operate in confluence and harmony.


"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"  ~George Santayana


Sources:


http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-reasons-why-rome-fell


The next installment will include the social impact and racial prejudice perpetuated by the left.

Will the Real Liberal Please Stand Up Pt. 4

Defining what "liberalism" is not is far easier than defining what it is. Firstly, the liberal label is a misnomer. Most self-proclaimed leftists value anything but liberty in its truest and purest form. They, to a "t," prefer a massive government who's sole responsibility is to nurture and care for each individual from cradle to grave.


In addition to this bizarre anti-self responsibility are the almost arcane and largely narcissistic admonition that a person's desire to be whatever he or she wants supersedes everything in a moral society. When discussing this topic, one must use caution in misunderstanding the phrase "whatever he or she wants," as the subject has little to do with career and everything to do with self. In other words, if a man wants to become (or identify) as a woman, or vice versa, no one should be permitted to question the desire. I would be remiss if I omitted odd behavior like an adult's desire to identify as a toddler, an animal, and so on. To do so is to insult the individual in the mind of the liberal.


Keeping with this inalienable right to self-identify, comes the belief that a person has the right to abuse their body in any way they seem fit, even if in doing so it may harm others around him/her. In their quest for enlightenment, the liberal will either turn to mind altering drugs, or at least condone the legalization and recreational use, justifying it by screaming, "It's my body and I will do as I please!" This sentiment pervades their thinking, no matter if the influx of drugs kills or disables other users around them.


The perverse desire to slaughter the unborn in the name of a "woman's right to choose" is the most odd behavior (and saying that is difficult, given the complexity of odd behavior so many liberals engage in), given their penchant for human life and dignity. Again, justification for their pro-abortion positions comes not from a scientific assumption, despite their argument to the contrary, but via their proclamation that a baby is nothing but a bunch of cells germinating in the womb.


I do not want to paint a picture of liberals as bad people; on the contrary, I count many leftists as friends. The malfeasances implemented when they hold office, however, are difficult to undo, as social entitlements, once given, are rarely rescinded. Most political office holders fear retribution by those given the entitlements, so the American citizen is stuck footing the bill for a lifetime.

Will the Real Liberal Please Stand Up Pt 3

The gender pay gap. If you believe the biased media, you probably think that women earn eighty cents on every dollar that men do, and you would be correct if you don't allow yourself the opportunity to dig a little deeper into the statistics.


Read the Department of Labor's wage gap report if you can suffer through it.  The equation is rather simple.  Total salaries for all men working full time jobs in the United States are added up and compared equitably to the same for women.  And therein lies the rub...


Side-by-side comparisons of men and women's salaries have not been calculated.  "So what?" you may ask. The what lies in roles many women choose in their careers versus those of their male counterparts. Additionally, studies have been conducted that demonstrate women, as a whole, do not negotiate salaries as well as men when offered employment. But I digress....


When comparing salaries between the sexes, it is vitally important to understand several dynamics. Men tend to work in manufacturing at a significantly higher rate than women (roughly twenty-seven percent of women work in manufacturing facilities). Obviously, skilled and general labor in this environment pays considerably higher wages than many of the traditional career paths women have chosen in previous generations. That said, it is reasonable to surmise that women entering manufacturing jobs are on equal par, insofar as pay is concerned, as their male counterparts. Why is that? Typically manufacturers have a set pay scale for hourly and salaried employees, although salaried employees often fall into an upper and lower wage scale.


Service and government employers also have pre-set wage scales.  Where, then, is the wage disparity? As stated above, men and women still tend to work in traditional gender based jobs. Therefore, the Department of Labor's statistics is misleading and not all a fair comparison of salaries of men and women in similar roles.


Works cited:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/04/16/its-time-that-we-end-the-equal-pay-myth/#4b73420a4c52


http://www.themanufacturinginstitute.org/Initiatives/Women-in-Manufacturing/~/media/9E6ED78EACB84084BD7A7C98B52B0E5C.ashx

In the next installment, Part four--The liberal un-agenda

Will the Real Liberal Please Stand Up Pt. 2

A strange dichotomy exists among those who support the "liberal" left. There are those solely focused on social justice, and others who wage war on capitalism. The former believes that one race is responsible for the ills of America, and more specifically, a single gender from that particular race, while the latter focuses on large corporations that they believe should be there for the people, rather than the converse.


Before we travel down the road of racial and gender injustices, let's be frank about our own history.  White Europeans sailed the Atlantic and landed on the east coast. The Europeans bought land from Native Americans, then pushed west and fought wars with the Natives until the country was conquered.  Unfortunately for the Native American peoples, they were savagely slaughtered, and those remaining moved (Cherokee and Creek Nations) further west and forced to live on reservations. Eventually, other Native nations were defeated and pushed onto their own tribal reservations. There is no doubt that this part of American history is tragic and with significant remorse. On equal par with this is our nation's history of slavery.


Africans were caught and sold by their own tribal leaders to white and Spanish slave traders who brought them to the Caribbean Islands, as well as North and South America. Slaves were treated as animals and punished harshly when they attempted to escape their plantations and slave owners. Their children were immediately born into slavery and the indescribable hell of slavery was passed to another generation.


The bloodiest war in our country's history was fought and men by the thousands died. The north with its hopes of preventing the south from seceding and ending slavery, and the south with its own ideas about forming a stand alone government separate and independent from the union that would also preserve the status quo--that is, slavery.


All that being said, there are many in our current day who claim that white men are maintaining a form of slavery by not giving blacks an opportunity in the work force. Let's not be blind to the fact that this was true in generations past, and probably still exists in some forms today, but on a much, much smaller scale. Truly, opportunities for blacks, Latinos (why else would Latinos flock here by the millions if opportunity did not exist?), Asians, and everyone else in between. The days of keeping a person from employment or advancement because of skin color or gender have all but vanished, no matter what you may hear from the left.


Why do they perpetuate this myth you may ask? The idea of lessening the stature of white males is somehow appealing to them. They tend to fixate on race as the reason for every woe plaguing us today. Obviously, many of these same people have never ventured to other countries to understand what poverty and oppression looks like, so their frame of reference is mired by their own skewed understandings (or lack thereof).


Many have called for reparations to Natives and blacks for the treatment of their ancestors. While understandable that there is more healing needed as we move further away from this disgusting era in American history, it must be said that the blood shed by those fighting for their freedom is the ultimate reparation.


Naturally, laws currently in place in the United States need to be enforced. Affirmative Action is not needed; what is needed is to hire and promote the most qualified individual for a given position, bar none. Employers must be held to that standard, and Americans should never settle for anything less.


We are the greatest nation on earth. Why? Because of who we are as a people, and, I would argue, because of the mistakes we made and the course correction brought on in the form of a Civil War. Can we do more to help people? Of course! Do we need to legislate that help? No.


Enforce our current laws and let's hold ourselves to a higher standard. When we accomplish that, liberals will have to find another cause on which they hang their pink hats.

Note: Part 3 will take a look at the myth of gender inequality.  Stay tuned.