The Law reads thusly:
"The only time Republicans get a large percentage
of the minority vote is in a landslide when they
would have won the election without a single minority
vote."
I discussed this on November 28, 1998 in "You
Never Win With the Black Vote." But this
year they are selling the same old myth again, so
it is time to go back over this.
Every Bush supporter recites the same old litany
about how many minority votes Bush got in his last
run for governor. This is supposed to prove he can
get lots and lots of minority votes when he runs
for president on the Republicans ticket.
He won't.
In 1998, Bush could have won the Texas governorship
without a single minority vote. He won in a landslide,
and minorities went along with the tide. In 2000,
Bush will get the same minuscule percentage of minority
votes Republicans always get.
For decades, moderates talked about how many black
votes Eisenhower got in 1952 and 1956. He got over
forty percent of the black vote. But the fact is
that Eisenhower would have won if he had not gotten
a single black vote. Like Bush in Texas, Eisenhower
won in a landslide, and a higher black vote went
along with it. But for decades, we had to listen
to the same old line about how the Republican Party
would get the black vote if it just got a little
bit more liberal.
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Respectable conservatives say they want to "appeal
to Hispanics." They then tell us that "Hispanics
want the same thing other Americans want."
That may be true of many Hispanics. But it turns
out that those regular Americans are not the Hispanics
respectable conservatives are talking about when
they demand that Republicans "appeal"
to them. The Hispanics respectable conservatives
want to appeal to demand that we:
1) make Spanish an official language wherever possible
in the United States;
2) impose "bilingual education" programs;
3) stop enforcing immigration laws;
4) support affirmative action.
In other words, like every other respectable conservative
mantra, this one is used to push the Republican
Party to the left.
"Bilingual education" is a code word very
similar to "multiculturalism." Bilingual
education" is a way to keep Spanish-speaking
children speaking nothing but Spanish. There is
nothing "bi-" about "bilingual education."
It is a means by which Spanish-speaking children
are kept monolingual."
In exactly the same way that "bilingual education"
is actually a way to keep children monolingual,
"multiculturalism" is actually a way to
impose a single alien culture throughout the Western
world.
"Multiculturalism" is a program that would
impose a single set of values on every country that
now has a white majority. It would be prescribed
by liberals. Each "multicultural" country
would be a carbon copy of every other "multicultural"
country. There is to be a "multicultural"
Germany, which will be exactly like a "multicultural"
Britain. The United Sates will have the same "experts"
dictating the same multicultural setup as Britain
and Germany do.
"Bilingual education" is code word for
a program to keep children monolingual. "Multiculturalism"
is a code word for destroying every real Western
culture and making the entire West monocultural.
As I said, while teachers teach Hispanic children
in that language, there is some pretense that, at
some future date which is not specified, the children
will begin to learn in English. This reminds one
of another liberal program, affirmative action.
Affirmative action discriminates against whites
to make up for white discrimination in the past.
Liberals say that there will come a time, sometime
in the far, far future, when society has made up
for past discrimination and affirmative action will
end.
We all know when those Hispanic children will begin
to learn in English. It will be the same date when
affirmative action is no longer imposed. It is the
same date when the hottest part of Hell suffers
a cold spell.
But you can't say any of this if you are going to
"appeal to the Hispanic vote." When the
descendants of Germans and Poles demand that English
be made the single official language in the United
States, you cannot "appeal to Hispanics"
and support it. So Bush opposes it. Buchanan's and
the Reform Party's demands that immigration laws
be enforced is declared to be a direct affront to
Hispanics.
After all, Hispanics are expected to side with their
fellow Mexicans against American laws.
So what happened to the old mantra that "Hispanics
want the same things other Americans want?"
The summation of all this shows us a very familiar,
very expected picture. When respectable conservatives
talk about "appealing to Hispanics," they
mean "caving in to liberals." Nobody can
think of a single suggestion by respectable conservatives
for "appealing to Hispanics" that does
not involve giving up something to liberals.
When they are demanding that the Republican Party
move left, the media always talks about a "big
tent." They say that the Republican Party has
to "move toward the center," which means
it must move leftward. But this "moving toward
the center" actually means REJECTING REAGAN
DEMOCRATS.
At the 1980 Republican Convention, when Republicans
had a brief fit of sanity and went to the right
with Reagan, "moderate" Republicans were
inconsolable. Naturally the media concentrated on
the handful of old liberal Republicans - media heroes
- who were at that convention. The cameras followed
them around as they talked about how all their old
buddies were all gone.
One after another, the old liberal Republicans complained
about the fact that they didn't know anybody there.
All of the old, reliable conservative Republicans
who had always supported moderate Republicans against
conservatives were gone. Moderates missed the old
faces, the good conservative Republicans and moderates
with whom they had lost election after election.
They didn't put it exactly that way, of course.
What was hilarious about all this was the absolute
hypocrisy of it. These were the same moderate Republicans
who were always talking about a "big tent."
They talked about the "big tent Republican
Party" into which every one was to be welcomed.
Then, when some actual new faces came in, the media
sympathized with moderates who resented all these
new faces! Like all liberals, the media have no
sense of irony. They never see the fact that they
are, yet again, being absurd.
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