Herman Cain's ascendancy in the Republican Party doesn't mean the GOP has abandoned its racist roots--but it says a lot about what else the party wants for America
The second broad trend in the GOP has been the sublimation of racism from its most simple and ugliest form, to a less obvious cultural racism. The "token black friend" has long been a running joke about conservatives, but having grown up in conservative areas, I have known a good number of people like this. These are people who really do have friends of other races whom they respect precisely because, in their minds, they don't act like those people. And in fact, the example of their minority "friend" only reinforces their broader cultural and racial resentments. The successful black "friend" becomes the standard by which it is OK to disfavorably compare entire minority communities
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That's exactly how it works. No matter how racist our institutions are, as long as their defenders can point to a few visibly successful POC who have made it, and the occasional rich white guy who gets the book thrown at him for drugs or something . . . well, there's proof that there's no problem! Anyone can make it, and everyone is punished for crime!
The thing I always want to say is, "The fact that you can point to TWO black men who have had more than a chance in hell of getting elected to the Presidency, amongst a historical and current sea of white male candidates, is proof of MY point, not yours."
Because they're lowering taxes for the rich and only raising taxes on the middle class and the poor.
It makes total sense when you consider that the GOP is a pack of greedy thugs who are only interested in lining the pockets of the rich and who want the poor anyone making less than ~$200k/year dying in the streets.
I know, right? :( It's so much freaking bullshit. And it's so obvious, but everyone (not on ONTD_P) that I talk to about it has no freaking clue. It's enough to make a girl want to Hulk Smash her friends and relatives.
I had a guy try to convince me yesterday that someone making $200k was "middle class" and I just. no, I can't with the GOP. I can't. I'm gonna chill and listen to the Portal song, "Still Alive" until I relax. :\
Conspiracy Theory: Herman Cain is going to be the Republicans' sacrificial lamb, only he doesn't know it. (Come on, the Republicans/Teabaggers can't stand that Obama is in office, do you think they'll stand for someone even "blacker" in the White House, no matter how much junk he spews forth?) He'll look like he has the nomination locked up. Then he'll be majorly sabotaged, maybe even assassinated and it will be made to look like someone connected to Obama (admin official, supporter, etc.) is behind it. They'll float the idea that since Cain is a "real" black man, he'll steal African-American support away from Obama and the "white people who only voted for Obama so they wouldn't look racist" will finally be able to vote their true beliefs, so Obama decided he needed to go. And the corporate media will gobble it up. Cue backlash against Obama and the Republicans' eventual (white male) nominee coasting to an easy victory. :\
I have no doubt that Cain would NEVER win the republican candidacy - I also believe that all these people are SAYING he's the one they'll vote for in the polls, but would never really vote for him. As for the rest of your conspiracy theory, I don't know if I can jump on board with that, but at the same time I wouldn't put it past them
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It makes total sense when you consider that the GOP is a pack of greedy thugs who are only interested in lining the pockets of the rich and who want the poor anyone making less than ~$200k/year dying in the streets.
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I had a guy try to convince me yesterday that someone making $200k was "middle class" and I just. no, I can't with the GOP. I can't. I'm gonna chill and listen to the Portal song, "Still Alive" until I relax. :\
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