By Daniel
John Sobieski |American Thinker
In what some have dubbed "Kanye
Derangement Syndrome," we see the death throes of the
divide-and-conquer identity politics that has long been the source of Democrat
power and residual political success.
Democrats' mantra was that
black conservatives could not possibly exist in the natural
world. They had to be some kind of genetically modified organism to
which, when someone wandered off the plantation, they would apply that
scientific term "Uncle Tom."
The problem for Democrats is that blacks are leaving
their political plantation in increasing droves.
In a bit of irony,
they are pouring across ideologically open borders.
Heeding
candidate Trump's call of "what
the hell do you have to lose," they have found they
had nothing to lose by embracing the rising job opportunities, declining
unemployment, and reduced crime those racist Republicans were offering compared
to life in the gerrymandered inner-city Bantustans where liberal Democrats have
held sway for decades.
Kanye West represents that increasing stampede, but he is
a symptom, not the cause.
He must be crazy, CNN and MSNBC tell
blacks. Who are you going to believe about the cause of your
plight: us, your own lying eyes, or that crazy Uncle Tom in a MAGA hat?
They
must demonize him because they can't answer the crazy man's arguments or the
fact that
an increasing number of blacks are agreeing with him.
Here's the math of it.
The Democratic
presidential candidates, everyone who runs, needs to get almost the entire
black vote in order to win a national election.
That's not easy to
do. So, in order to do it, Democrats sell racial division.
They pit Americans against each other based on their
ethnicity. You can't support them. They're the wrong
color. You hear that all the time. It's now the essential
Democratic argument. It's destructive. But more ominously
for Democrats, it may no longer be working.
A poll by Public Broadcasting just last week found that
Trump's approval rating with Hispanic voters is 41 percent. That's
higher than it is with college-educated white voters. If anything
like that ever happened among African-American voters, the game would be
over.
So, that can't happen. Kanye West must be destroyed. And
so the thought police swooped in almost immediately to arrest this disobedient
artist and declare him incompetent.
The denunciation of Kanye West would not nearly be so
hyperbolic and hysterical were it not for a recent Rasmussen poll showing Trump,
who got something like 8 percent of the black vote in 2016, nearly
doubling it in the past year to 36 percent.
President Donald Trump's approval among black voters has
almost doubled in the space of a year, the latest presidential polling from Rasmussen
Reports has found. According to Rasmussen's Daily Presidential
Tracking Poll, Trump's approval rating among black voters stands at 36 percent,
compared with just 19 percent on the same day last year.
The significant rise in approval is likely to be an endorsement
of Trump's economic policies – that have seen record
low
unemployment among the African-American population – and the stock market rise
to record highs.
Black small business formation is skyrocketing as more
blacks become participants
in rather than spectators of the free market.
Well, if Donald Trump is a racist and wants to hurt
African-Americans and other minorities, let's just say he's failed miserably.
Consider the state of black small businesses, for
instance.
Arguably the greatest mover in terms of the financial
improvement of any social group is small businesses.
So, how are black small
businesses doing under the Trump administration?
According to a study by Guidant Financial, "year-over-year, we
saw a 400% increase in the number of African American owned small
businesses."
The bottom line here is that the Democrats, already in
panic mode over the phony Russia collusion probe evaporating in futility as
true Democratic collusion and corruption are revealed, and as the Trump agenda,
both domestic and foreign, is succeeding, are terrified that blacks are peeling
away from their coalition.
Even a five-percent swing among blacks
would doom the Democratic Party.
Their ideological slavery must be
maintained, and black conservatives speaking the truth must be destroyed.
Food stamp usage is in decline, as is black
unemployment. Wages are rising, as is black
home ownership.
Congressional blacks like to insist that this is just
a continuation of trends begun under Obama, but Obama did not cut regulations,
cut taxes, boost domestic energy, rein in the EPA, and unleash entrepreneurs,
black and white, freeing them to pursue their dreams unrestrained by government
chains.
Crime (particularly gang crime), drugs, and poverty are
concentrated now in urban areas run by Democratic socialists and
progressives.
What answer would the typical black Chicago resident
give if asked if he was better off after eight years of Obama? What
answer would he give now, after two years of the Trump boom?
As black economist Thomas
Sowell notes, Democrats value the black vote but not
black voters, particularly those black Democrat congressmen who come from
racially gerrymandered congressional districts.
Democrats need black voters to be fearful, angry,
resentful and paranoid. Black votes matter. If
Republicans could get 20 percent of black votes, the Democrats would be ruined.
That is what Democrats are terrified of. That
can happen only if blacks are denied the truth about their past, present, and
future.
It is Democrats who owned the slaves, founded the KKK, and
wrote the Jim Crow laws.
It is Democrats who stood in front of the
schoolhouse door and still do, opposing school choice.
It is
Democrats who turned on the fire hoses and unleashed the dogs.
The
improvement of black lives under Trump and a free-market economy is no mirage,
but a portent that has the Democratic Party running scared.
Kanye West, like Diamond and Silk and others before them,
must be destroyed by Democrats, who call Republicans racist and
sexist.
They and others like them who want to be judged by the
content of their character and the truth of their ideas can appreciate
the words of Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearing:
"This is not an opportunity to talk about difficult
matters privately or in a closed environment. his is a
circus. It's a national disgrace.
"And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm
concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to
think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is
a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to
you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured."
The problem for Democrats is that Kanye West, Diamond and
Silk, and an increasing number of blacks reject the culture of
victimhood.
An increasing number of blacks are beginning to cast off
the chains of party affiliation and ideological slavery.
Democrats are afraid that after on Nov. 6, as black voters
leave their polling places, there will be increasing murmurs of "free at
last!"
Daniel John
Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor's
Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine, and the Chicago Sun-Times among
other publications.
