by Robert M. Traxler
If you are a Republican voter, are you a racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic mouth breather who shops at Wal-Mart and married your sibling? No, you are not; to judge millions of Americans by the group is not fair, it is unjust and wrong.
The good folks on the far left will use those terms freely and without reservation or proof against folks they do not know. Former Senator/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton moved the practice of prejudging 25 percent of all-American voters as “a basket of deplorables” to the politically correct mainstream in her failed attempt to become president.
We were told by the major media outlets that she is the smartest woman in the world and that no one was better qualified to lead our nation. To refer to folks like most of the voters in Dorr, Moline, Hopkins, Martin and Wayland as deplorable was probably not a smart move. An old adage is that people like people who like them; insulting 25 percent of registered voters (twice) may not, in hindsight, have been a good move for Mrs. Clinton.
I like to watch MSNBC, CNBC, PBS and CNN to see what the left thinks and get a counterpoint to Fox News. Hardly a day passes without the mantra of vicious disgusting names being given to anyone with the audacity to disagree with the extreme left. The term racist in bygone days was given to truly horrible people who were hate-filled and violent; today a racist is anyone who does not favor open borders or liberal concepts, a major degradation of the term.
According to CNBC.com, 95 percent of Americans have shopped at a Wal-Mart. Are 95% of Americans bad people because of where they shop? Prejudging folks, judging folks by the group, is just plain old-fashioned wrong, but the left-of-center folks will never see their prejudices because in their own minds they are not capable of being prejudiced.
A large percentage of the good folks in the area this newspaper serves are in the basket of deplorables the left constantly refers to by vile names. Come on now, really? I cannot be convinced that 20 to 60% of you are homophobic, sexist, racist, Islamophobic, ignorant, closed-minded hayseeds.
The numbers of Americans who support open borders is between 15 and 48%. It depends on who asks the question and how they ask it — even 50 percent of Democrats want border security. We are told to believe that 51 to 85 percent of Americans are racists? Perhaps, just perhaps, the term is grossly over-used?
The far American/socialist leftists have no problem in judging over one hundred million Americans as (add your own vile names here), while calling themselves inclusive and open minded. Really? The term prejudice was used in the past for a person who judged people by the group; today the term is obsolete in a society that uses wildly overheated rhetoric. We go straight to racists.
The most peculiar form of prejudice has always been the belief of many that your zip code is a clear indication of your intelligence. Americans who reside on the coasts are superior to those of us who call the middle of America home. Interesting how the liberals in our area hear the left-wing leaders and pundits say that all of us who live in Michigan are the basic issue of vile names, but feel they are not referring to them, just all the other people who live in middle America.
Will we stop the use of wildly overheated, vile rhetoric? Not a chance in hell because it works, and the Democratic primary voters truly believe it is true.
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