The New American Political Ghettos

[Riddick]

Edited/excerpted from an article by Leesa K. Donner at cnsnews.com:

It seems there is an established political ghetto for everyone in America today. And the problem with this is … well, everything.

Far-left publication The Nation wrote that those who voted for Trump are racists and xenophobes. Welcome to the Trump ghetto. CBS executive Haley Geftman-Gold reportedly posted on social media, “I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are republican gun-toters.” Step right this way to the GOP ghetto.

A Penn State-Brandywine prof says the “work ethic” is an example of “whiteness ideology.” Right behind door number three we have the Racist ghetto. Women are told that if they shop at stores where Ivanka Trump-wear is sold, they are a traitor to their sex. Open door number four to the Gender ghetto.

“I have friends who are gay, so I don’t feel comfortable working with conservatives.” The supposition is that all conservative/libertarian/independent people are homophobes. Enter the Homophobe ghetto. Black conservatives are all Uncle Toms. Do not pass “go” for the Race Traitor ghetto.

The Christian ghetto is a big one: carry a Bible, believe in Jesus and you automatically not only hate gay people, but you carry firearms in your pick-up truck with a Dixie flag in the window. The most heinous of the Christian group seems to be the Roman Catholic sub-set. The entertainment industry, for instance, finds hammering Catholics a most lucrative business. This year there is “The Little Hours” that highlights a convent full of sick and twisted nuns. “Holy Hell” depicts a sexually-deviant Priest. No need to continue. You get the picture. Such is life in the Christian ghetto.

Everyone has a label according to the extreme political left. There is only black and white. Shades of gray no longer exist in American political culture. We live in a time and place that sees everyone in one dimension – not three – and they must be assigned to a political ghetto. Once inside that ghetto, we can remove them from our consciousness. No point in mourning over the shooting of Steve Scalise (R-LA) since he’s a Republican. And those folks in Vegas – well, everybody knows country music fans are a bunch of yahoos and hayseeds, so screw them for getting shot, right?

See how this works? This type of political matrix removes something essential to our culture – it removes our humanity. No longer do we see people as complex human beings with nuance or even as individuals any longer.

America has long been held up as a nation that reveres individualism, but we can no longer make that claim if everyone is assigned a political ghetto. Individualism requires an element of self-reliance and personal responsibility. Innovation is often the result of individualism. In letting a thousand flowers bloom, America has become a beacon of prosperity for the rest of the world. We’re not perfect, but we have always been the entrepreneurs, the originalists, the impresarios of what can be done when given room to breathe and create.

Collectivism on the other hand promotes the group over the individual. It has a masterful ability to stifle and smother the human soul. Just ask the people in North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. Ultimately this is the primary purpose of all this political ghettoization – to collectivize people and group them so they can be manipulated effortlessly.

But life in the ghetto is not a pretty picture. It is violent, threatening, dangerous and often repulsive. It is not a place where people want to live or raise their children. So, I say it’s time for the folks in the ghetto to rise up, say no to life in the ghetto, no to the leftist labels and boxes and no to these collectivists. It’s time for us to remember that no matter what those on the left call us or in which ghetto they try to place us – we are not ghetto-dwellers. Rather, we are American citizens who have the capacity and yes, the audacity, to think for ourselves.

[Doka]

THAT, is an Excellent Article, Riddick! Thanks for posting!

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