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THOUGHTS ON THE NOVEMBER 2020 ELECTION
August
8, 2020 by Hugh Murray
Former
Vice President Joseph Biden is the presumptive nominee of the
Democrats, as all the other contenders withdrew and endorsed the
Delaware Democrat. Biden, using the corona virus as an excuse, has
remained at his home for most of recent months. Indeed, this week he
announced he would not make his scheduled appearance before the
Democratic National Convention, scheduled for middle August in
Milwaukee in a slimmed-down gathering. Now, even that is abandoned,
and the DNC will be a virtual affair.
When
he has appeared in public in recent months, Biden has not performed
that well. Reading telepromter speeches, he seems wooden, without
enthusiasm, and still he stumbles over words and phrases. Sometimes,
he even looks lost. Other times, he loses his train of thought,
getting tangled in confusion. Sometimes, he is incomprehensible;
occasionally, controversial, as when he took a question from a Black
jounalist, did Biden take one of the cognitive tests. Though in
previous clips, Biden said he would take one, this time he reacted
angrily against the journalist, suggesting the question was like
asking the reporter to take a drug test for cocaine for inquiring in
such a manner. A day later Biden asserted that Hispanics were far
more diverse than Afro-Americans. In recent months, Biden does not
seem like a major contender for the Presidency. Clearly, he is not
dead, but he is not displaying much life and awareness. So, I shall
call him Zombie Joe Biden. I do this because I do not think him
capable of taking on all the responsibilites of the Presidency.
There
is a simple way Biden could disprove the nation's apprehensions.
Normally, during Presidential elections, there are presidential
debates. Trump obviously wants to debate Biden. However, Biden
supporters in the media, like writers at the New York Times, have
urged Biden NOT to debate Trump. His supporters fear he may not do
well. Notre Dame U., site of one of the scheduled debates, withdrew
from the process. The Jesuit institution cited the virus as the
excuse. The mainstream media, usually with ties to the Democrats, is
not pushing for any debates this year. Keeping the shaky Biden
looking strong is more important to Democrats than having the
candidate take a cognitive test or debating his opponent.
If
the Democrats really believe that Biden is capable of leading the US,
if they believe he can handle China's Xi, Russia's Putin, North
Korea's Kim, Iran's Ayatollah, and all the other world leaders, then
surely Biden should be able to handle a few debates with Trump. If
the Democrats find more excuses to shield Biden, and stop him from
debating Trump, it will be evident that the leaders of the Democratic
Party do not have faith that Biden can handle either a debate or the
big problems America faces. If Biden is capable, he should be able
to debate. If he cannot debate, Zombie Joe should not have his
finger on nuclear bombs.
SYSTEMIC
RACISM
One
of the issues pushed to the forefront this year after the video of
the Minneapolis and George Floyd was the charge of “systemic
racism” that denied Blacks equal opportunity and basic rights. In
the speeches at protests conducted by Black Lives Matter, the phrase
was stressed, and it was echoed by many Democratic politicians. The
general media was so sympathic to the protests, break-ins, arson,
beatings, and general thuggery, that they rarely mentioned that BLM
was a Marxist organization, radical, and that it had inspired the
murder of several policemen in different cities. The media also
portrayed the extremely violent Anti-Fa group, which was also quite
active in the “protests,” as just another organization, ignoring
its history of violence, and a history that began in Berlin in summer
1932 where it was established in the facilities of the German
Communist Party. Ending systemic racism would be one way of excusing
much of the violence of the mobs throughout the nation this summer.
Democrats generally rallied to the call; Republicans sought to ignore
the issue, while a few might try to deny the charge.
Let
me make it clear, there is systemic racism inside the US Government,
and outside in corporations, and most places all over America.
Moreover, the systemic racism is LEGAL! And it has a name:
affirmative action. Ever since Pres. Richard Nixon, Republican,
revived the Philadelphia Plan in 1969, and then through Executive
Orders, extended the quota policies inherent in the Philadelphia
Plan, to the entire government, and later extended the quotas to
women and Hispanics and then others, ever since then, there has been
a creeping quota system, a systemic racial quota policy in America.
To gain Congressional approval, the Nixon Administration lobbied the
NAACP for help to prevent a Democratic proposal to ban quotas, and by
a very close vote in the House, Nixon and his racial quotas were
upheld. Thereafter, racial quotas were applied in hiring,
promotions, university admissions, in government jobs, and in the
private workforce, everywhere in America, affirmative action (quotas)
became policy. In reality, this meant that no longer was the best
candidate for a job hired; to fill a racial quota, a lesser, or even
an unqualified minority might be hired while the better qualified
white or male, or later Asian, would be left with nothing. Make no
mistake: affirmative action for one was negative action against
another. The prime target of these quotas was the white male.
Systemic racial discrimination against white men has been rampant in
America since Republican Nixon instituted the policy.
Affirmative
action quota thinking spread beyond jobs. Thus, under Pres. Obama,
his Atty. Gen. Sent letters to all public schools threatening
lawsuits if they suspended or expelled minorities at a higher
percentage than white. Because more Blacks and Hispanics were
disciplined that whites, the quota-thinking Obama crowd saw that as
racism. (They did not find it sexism that many more boys were
disciplined than girls.) And now this lunacy of quotas is part of
the defund the police and open the jail movement because most
criminals are people of color.
Despite
the entrenchment of affirmative action and quotas in America, there
were minor ballot revolts against such discrimination. In 1994 the
people of California passed a proposition to ban consideration of
race and ethnicity in university admissions. In Michigan it also got
onto the ballot, - usually the Establishment of Democrats and liberal
Republicans did not want such votes. On the ballot, all the
“respectables” in Michigan, church leaders, Democrats, some
Republicans argued against it and how giving preferences to
minorities was moral. The respectables forgot that Rev. Martin
Luther King at the March on Washington dreamt of the time when people
would be judged by the content of their character, and not by the
color of their skin. Affirmative action bases all you chances on the
box you hit, basically the color of your skin, not your
qualifications. The Equal Opportunity office does not want equal
opportunity; it demands preferences for some, and denial of
opportunity for others. The entire civil rights project became
Orwellian in America – all are equal, but some are more equal than
others.
After
24 years of Proposition 209, the anti-affirmative action ballot law,
this year the Democrats are seeking its repeal before the voters.
They will vote on Nov. 3, also the day for the Presidential election,
whether to repeal the anti-quota bill, and restore the official
affirmative action policies so common in America. California will
have an opportunity to vote on expanding system racism in a few
months. Of course, California has changed in 24 years, more
invasion, more illegal aliens. And some will undoubtedly vote. Will
they vote to judge an individual by his own merits, his own
achievements, intelligence, etc. Or, to guaranty racial quotas, give
lesser qualified students those openings, those scholarships, those
jobs?
There
is systemic racism in America today, but it is anti-white, anti-male,
and more recently, anti-Asian. It discriminates on the basis of
race. Will we expand that racism? Or not?
