Of Months and Days....Part 2

By Patrick Hall

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”

It’s simply their business model.  The Democratic Party, the Progressive Intelligentsia that controls our universities and schools as well as corporate media outlets, promotes and nurtures factionalism. Rumors and socio-economic mechanisms that exploit race, ethnicity, religion, and gender are just some of the ways they employ to animate the mob.  As I pointed out several years ago in an earlier opinion piece, Democrats and the Progressive Left discovered years ago that the public policy route was unimportant in their brand of politics. Governmental public policy was far too remote and complicated to create a connection between the leaders and the led. Identity politics and tribal affiliations based on race, gender, class, national origin, or factionalism mattered most. It is often the easiest to exploit. From Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) to politicians like AOC (D-NY), Jasmine Crocket (D-GA), Governor Gavin Newsom of California, to the outright Communist and mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, and the greater DNC all push in some form the perilous and country-killing toxin of Factionalism.  

The political pathogen of Factionalism was the main tool that gave the country Barack Hussein Obama back in 2008.  As I have noted several times in previous articles. In contrast to Obama, Trump loves our country.  Obama, on the other hand, spoke the lingo of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), or multiculturalism on steroids.  It was little more than segregation, tribalism, racism, and latent factionalism under new management. To this day, my opinion of Barrack Hussien Obama is that he was the ultimate Decepticon. Obama was adroit, almost Machiavellian, in the way he could say and do very little that was a net-positive for the country. Most importantly, however, he did it extraordinarily well.    

You also witness the cultural poison of Factionalism in what I call the “real black people neurosis.”  Many Black Americans have been encouraged by the Democratic and Progressive Polity to sit in their little race/ethnic and gender enclaves, waiting to be offended by God knows what.  Unfortunately, it is a cultural weakness in our body politic. One that clever and calculating politicians like Gavin Newsom, Obama, Jim Clyburn (D-NC), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and other prominent Democrats use as their business model.  It was (and still is) the easiest road to electoral power and the most corrosive to the nation. As the late Conservative Talk-Show host Rush Limbaugh observed, more energized blocs of voters could be built by telling voters what was wrong with their lives (and country) rather than what was right. Instead of seeing one another as fellow countrymen, as Americans.  Democrats and DEI advocates have fueled many citizens to wall themselves off, sorting themselves into silos based on party affiliations, race, nationality, gender, you name it.  We have all seen or witnessed people (mostly Progressive Liberal Democrats) banishing friends, neighbors, coworkers, and even family members from their lives.  

During my sojourns at several universities, I was quickly labeled persona non grata once fellow faculty members (mostly by Professional Black People, not to be confused with Black Professionals). They discovered via some of my writings that I was a Black Conservative and not, in their estimation, a “real black person.” I had the wrong type of diversity!

Even today in my current Church congregation, some now give me that strange “look” that wasn’t there before they discovered I was Black Conservative…… “horrors-of-horrors”!

 As former President Joe Biden said to Black Talk Show Host back during the last Presidential election. If you have to think about whether to vote for him, “a Democrat”, as opposed to voting for Donald Trump. Then you ain’t black!  

Here is a simple truth.  Our Democracy, or “Republic,” wasn’t about how we were different. It was about how we were the same. We were supposed to be a melting pot. But I understand that it is now considered a form of racism or cultural appropriation by the “deep-thinkers” of the Progressive Liberal Democrat Diversity Cartel.  Many, if not most, University faculty, especially within the Social/Cultural sciences, are devout members of this Cartel.

 It was about the rights and freedoms that everyone enjoys and how everyone, regardless of ethnicity, gender, or so-called racial differences, protects them.  Democracy was also about your responsibilities, your duties, as a citizen. As Americans, we have sometimes fallen short of the ideals so eloquently stated in our founding documents.  However, self-correction —an “ethos, gift or Grace,” if you will —of Christendom has also been an embedded (at times latent) feature within our “cultural and political physiology.”  

Far too many Americans have been encouraged to see themselves as members of an “entitled subset” first.  Who would rather prance around with a BLM Flag instead of the Stars and Stripes?  Many Hispanics like to identify with La Raza separatists, who would rather fly the flag of Mexico rather than the U.S. Flag at ethnic festivals here at home.

 Here is a quick update. La Raza decided some time ago to rebrand. La Raza, or (The Race), announced that it would change its name from one suggestive of adversarial Chicano politics to something with broader appeal: UnidosUS. Either way, its loyalty to normative American culture remains dubious if not questionable at best. Similar to other ethnic/race industry entrepreneurs like the NAACP, Black Lives Matter, National Action Network, UnidosUS, opinion elites routinely impose cookie-cutter stories of racism against Latinos and Hispanics over far more complicated realities.

Here is a sidebar. When I attend festivals or celebrations like Italian, Irish, Polish, or Greek Celebration Day, I don’t get the sense that there is a subcurrent of animosity toward being a loyal American. Yes, they may have Greek or Irish flags at these festivals, but they do not supersede the engrained loyalty or love the vast majority of people attending have for the Stars and Stripes. In most Black and Hispanic Cultural Days as well as Multicultural Celebrations, there exists an undercurrent that “America sucks,” or at the very least should offer up endless mea culpas for what these culture-bashers deem our awful history and culture. It worked for Mamdani and others within the Democratic Polity.

 We have individuals and groups who would rather throw a Keffiyeh Scarf around themselves to show their solidarity with murdering Islamic Terrorists.  They are the same people or politicians (like Zohran Mamdani or Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) who think of nothing when they use terms like Intifada, Global Intifada, or chant “From the River to the Sea”, which call for the murder of Jews and the end of “Western Civilization.”

These are flashing red lights, a warning that as a democracy, “as a Republic,” as a nation, as Western Culture,  we are in great peril.