Our One Hope

It’s more than 150 years since the Civil War ended. Lincoln and Grant were, at that point, determined that Black peoples’ votes would count. But we have a Supreme Court today in which a 5 to 4 majority is set on supporting the New Jim Crow and anti-Black gerrymandering. The Court also favors barring Muslims and Latinos, keeping America White and Christian. 

We can chalk the situation up to Nixon, who developed the Southern strategy for the party of Lincoln and Grant, corrupting it utterly until Trump is now its true example. Spanky has the backing of 90% of Republican voters. They like him because he is heartless, nasty and pointlessly vicious (which they call leadership), and because he flails about incompetently, refreshing the voters’ hate for diversity (except for Mexican food),

The alternative to outright, enforced bigotry is the Democratic Party, led by dated, compromised, national weaklings and servants of Wall Street. Deal-cutters. That’s our one hope in 2018. They have my vote.