Everyone knows the old adage “divide and conquer,” but for Democrats, it is, and always has been, “divide to conquer.” The political left only offers unpopular policies like open borders and child genital mutilation, and failed economic philosophies in the “ism” realm – socialism, fascism and communism. It’s like selling food that tastes like food odor – no one wants what you’re offering, so you have to find another way to sucker people into buying it. That’s why Democrats spend their time inventing and stoking racism; it’s a very efficient and effective distraction and motivator.
If someone – an individual or a political party – can convince people, they should consider themselves to be part of a group based on immutable characteristics more than individuality; they are halfway to manipulating them into doing pretty much anything they want. Once the idea of identity mattering more than anything else takes hold, the ability to instill fear over “other” groups or individuals trying to harm whatever group is under that moment’s manipulation becomes easy.
Democrats spend a lot of time and money working to convince people the word “community” means skin color, sexual orientation, gender delusions or whatever else is handy and useful at a given moment. Once someone buys into the idea, they swoop in and offer “protection” from whatever made-up boogeyman they’ve created.
It’s really easy to protect people from something that doesn’t exist – I’d happily sell you a one-time rock that repels unicorns, for example. Just send me $100 and I’ll send you the rock. Put it on your lawn and you will never have your house overrun by unicorns. Lifetime warranty with a 100 percent money-back guarantee included!
That’s basically how the Left-Wing Industrial Complex works, and how Democrats used the Southern Poverty Law Center – they created fear of something that isn’t real, then paid to create evidence of it to keep stoking that fear.
Am I saying there is no racism in the country anymore? Of course not. But there isn’t enough to matter and whenever it is actually found, it is denounced thoroughly.
Oh, and most of it comes from the left and is against white people. I know, a million pearls were just clutched on the coasts. But look at MS Now, popular left-wing podcasts or the pages of any liberal rag and you see progressives, mostly white leftists and extremely wealthy minorities, whining about “structural racism” and “institutional racism” without really defining it…because it’s not real. If it were, they wouldn’t exist.
To the extent that “white supremacy” exists, it’s as a fundraising and motivating tool. It has about as much influence over the events in people’s lives as avoiding stepping on a crack in the sidewalk, preventing the breaking of someone’s mother’s back.
When we found out the SPLC was paying leaders of various, insignificant “hate groups” to keep the cash flowing into their bank accounts, it should not have surprised anyone. They weren’t paying “informants” for information about events like the so-called “unite the right” rally in Charlottesville – that information is public, there is literally nothing to discover about it – it was to make sure those events happened. You don’t pay the leaders of an organization for information on its members; you pay low-level members for information on a group’s leaders. You pay leaders to do things; to hold events to justify your group’s existence in countering them.
Without Democrat Party groups like the KKK, the SPLC wouldn’t be necessary. But the KKK doesn’t exist anymore in any meaningful way – it’s a joke with fewer members nationwide than the average attendance of a WNBA game, the country’s least popular professional sport.
To make this point in my book a few years ago, I wrote, “The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates there are only between 5,000 and 8,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan in the country. If you were an avid consumer of the legacy media, you’d swear there are millions. To give that perspective, split the difference and go with 6,500 KKK members currently, nothing to sniff at. One racist is two racists too many. But 6,500 in a nation of 330 million is a rounding error, not an epidemic.”
Giving it more context, I wrote, “In 1920, Klan membership was estimated at 4 million at a time when there were only 106 million people in the country. We’ve gone from a nation with 3.7 percent Klan membership to one with .0019 percent. Yet the left portrays this country as racist to its core. The average 2016 attendance of a WNBA game was 7,655. That means there were, on average, more than 1,100 more people attending a random game of the country’s least popular professional sport than there are total members of the KKK. If that isn’t progress, what is?”
We should be celebrating the defeat of racism (and the Democrats who engaged in it), but that would be bad for business for Democrats, the media and the Southern Poverty Law Center, so they’ve had to spend decades creating more of it.
They had the money, the will and the need to do it, so they did…and it paid off. The SPLC raised more than $120 million after the events, and they invested a few hundred thousand into Charlottesville, a return rate that would even make the stock portfolio of U.S. Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-11) jealous.
We should be celebrating the effective defeat of racism; instead, Democrats do all they can to create more of it. They turn people against others based on skin color and ethnicity for the sole purpose of amassing more power for themselves and getting rich in the process. It is gross, it is disgusting, it is…progressive and it will surprise no one who actually thinks for themselves and pays attention.
Democrats have always been the party of racial division and hatred for their own advancement. Over the years, they’ve become less overt about it, but no less determined. From when they were the purveyors of slavery to the inventors of Jim Crow and segregation, until today – Democrats have always been the party that uses racism to get what they want. They’ve never changed their goals, only their tactics.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.