Throughout an MSNBC evaluation of the second GOP Debate that includes wanna-be Republican Occasion 2024 presidential candidates, Pleasure-Ann Reid, host of “The ReidOut,” stated there’s a much bigger dialog that we have to be having, after which posed a chilling query to her fellow panelists: “Are we on the finish of politics?”
Reid then went on to interrupt down why she thinks the ominous reply to her query is “Sure.”
NUMBERS GAME
“The Republican Occasion exists in a world wherein demographically, six out of the final seven presidential elections, they’ll’t win the favored vote. As a result of demographically and the dispersion of multi-racial communities makes it very onerous for them to win by standard politics,” stated Reid.
And since demographically the U.S. is getting darker and youthful and extra progressive by the day (really, by the second), with communities of coloration experiencing optimistic development numbers, whereas whites are experiencing a decline (larger dying charges coupled with decrease beginning charges), future prospects for majority assist of Republican positions on points, that are already wildly unpopular, are reducing with each tick of the clock.
THEIR MESSAGE SUCKS
“The issues they need to do – ban abortion –extremely unpopular. Whenever you put it by politics, you place it by an election, they’ll’t win that. The issues they need to do on weapons; 70-some-odd % of Individuals don’t agree with it,” added Reid.
However she might have hit on any variety of different points. Most Individuals suppose the assaults of CRT and the banning of books smells an excessive amount of like Nazi ways from the Thirties and 40s. The vast majority of U.S. residents don’t suppose governments (native or federal) ought to inform folks who they’ll marry or discriminate in opposition to folks due to who and the way they love. Most folks acknowledge the existence of white privilege, felony justice system inequities, world warming and a rigged financial/political system that favors the ultra-wealthy on the expense of everyone else. And the GOP is on the unsuitable aspect of all these positions.
So, then, how can they win elections?
GOP ANTI-DEMOCRACY STRATEGIES
Reid stated what numerous different media pundits and social scientists have concluded: “So, they must pressure these items by by anti-democratic means. Voter suppression is the one approach. Gerrymandering is the one approach they’ll really get what they need, as a result of what they need is so unpopular that once you put their concepts by the political course of they’ll’t win.”
WHITE NATIONALIST ANGER & VIOLENCE
She added, “And the frustration and the craze, not with the ability to ban all immigrants and get the entire quote-unquote illegals out, you possibly can’t do it as a result of it’s logistically unattainable. It’s additionally unpopular. It ruins companies in Florida. So, when you concentrate on it, all of politics has enraged a sure group of Individuals who can not win by politics. So, what do you go to? You go to autocracy.”
Reid then answered her personal query: “What do you do when like 40% of American adults have given up on politics and say, ‘Politics isn’t the reply; give me a powerful man who can impose my minority positions on the remainder of you, on girls – we’re gonna make girls give beginning; we’re gonna make you do it. Since you don’t wanna do it, and politics received’t enable me to make you do it.’”
In different phrases, they are saying “To hell with democracy; give me a dictator who needs what I need.” and the numbers bear this out. Violent assaults on Blacks has skyrocketed since 2016, particularly from whites and Hispanics who consider Black voters and their votes are illegitimate (i.e. the Jan. 6 riot looking for to overthrow votes of 4 states that Biden received due to Black voter turnout in Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta).
DEMOCRATS’ CLUELESSNESS
Reid and others consider politics as we all know it’s in peril for one more purpose – Democratic Occasion cluelessness.
“However I’m undecided that Democrats have a solution… I’m undecided that Biden and Democrats have a solution to ‘What do you do when like 40% of American adults have given up on politics’ and say ‘Politics isn’t the reply; give me a powerful man who can impose my minority positions on the remainder of you, on girls – we’re gonna make girls give beginning; we’re gonna make you do it. Since you don’t wanna do it, and politics received’t enable me to make you do it,’ stated Reid.
She contends, this cluelessness will lead Democrats to run a daily, conventional 2024 Presidential marketing campaign at the same time as democracy is on the point of dying – an method Reid and others consider is not going to energize sufficient voters to dam anti-democratic, anti-voting rights, anti-women’s rights, from profitable on the native, state and federal stage regardless of the truth that their anti-everybody insurance policies usually are not well-liked with most Individuals.
BILLIONAIRES WHO PROFIT OFF A BROKEN SYSTEM
The MSNBC panel upon which Reid made her feedback additionally included Stephanie Ruhle, host of MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle.” Ruhle stated Republicans aren’t “taking part in politics and coverage in the identical approach that Fox Information is now not overlaying information or politics. It’s grievance media. And this takes us again to who’s standing behind Donald Trump, Who was the mastermind behind his first marketing campaign?’ It was Steve Bannon who very clearly stated, ‘Let’s simply break the system.’ And that’s what they’re doing.”
And he or she’s proper. Bannon, Roger Stone and others believed totally within the thought of destroying governmental establishments to the purpose the place they didn’t serve the pursuits of the American individuals. However what Ruhle didn’t point out was the Darkish Cash behind all of it. What’s Darkish Cash: political spending meant to affect the choice of a voter, the place the donor will not be disclosed and the supply of the cash is unknown. Gazillionaires who revenue from the present established order, damaged system, and the chaos and dysfunction it causes, have and proceed to speculate closely in holding the dysfunction dysfunctional. In actual fact, the extra damaged the system, the higher – for them.
MEDIA MELTDOWN
Reid believes a media unable or unwilling to name out the nation’s most dire threats is actually a menace in and of itself to the nation’s well-being.
“The media hasn’t figured it out both. Let’s simply be sincere. The ‘mainstream media’ can’t work out find out how to do one thing apart from standard politics from just like the 90s. And they also’re like, ‘Each side, either side, either side. If we are saying Donald Trump is corrupt, properly then we should cowl Hunter Biden equally. We now have to ‘Even-Steven’ it. We now have to seek out one thing to say as a result of we’ve to say Trump is corrupt, Trump is violent, so let’s speak about Biden’s sneakers [and] Biden is previous.’ They’re the identical age, however we act as if Biden’s age is the same as Donald Trump’s menace, and the media hasn’t found out how to do that both. So, it’s like the entire system is busted.
Why is that this “Even-Steven,” conventional approach of media protection outdated? As a result of one political celebration of combating to avoid wasting the little piece of democracy the U.S. has left, whereas the opposite is attempting to strangle it to dying. So, trying to provide either side equal play and equal airtime is definitely a disservice. It might be just like the media interviewing Nat Turner or Denmark Vesey or Harriet Tubman or Frederick Douglass to get their opinion on the vile, inhumane and insidious establishment of slavery and all of its evils, then the media saying, “Properly, to be honest, we’ve to provide ‘Massa Mo’ and his beliefs the identical time and a spotlight.”
No. No, you don’t.
