Author: ROBERT STACY MCCAIN
The views of the Authors are not necessarily the views of Enigmose
Even by the standards of the Washington Post, Sunday’s feature on Stacey Abrams was remarkable. And by “remarkable,” of course I mean, ludicrous. The hagiographic profile, which ran to more than 5,000 words, likened her to “a runway supermodel” and included a silhouette photo of Abrams, enshrouded by machine-made fog, that provoked widespread derision on social media.
Of course, any criticism of Abrams will immediately be denounced by liberals as racist and sexist, which is the most obvious reason why Abrams has been promoted as a “rising star” of the Democratic Party. The liberal media enjoy nothing more than denouncing Americans as hate-filled bigots. Turning Abrams into a political celebrity, viewed as a possible vice-presidential running mate for Joe Biden, gives journalists yet another opportunity to point the accusatory finger: “See? We told you all those Trump voters are a bunch of deplorable haters.”
What has Stacey Abrams accomplished that would qualify her to be one heartbeat away (and that heartbeat belonging to a 77-year-old) from becoming commander-in-chief? Her main claim to fame is losing an election. Think about what that means about her status as a “rising star” for Democrats.
Among other things, what it means is that Democrats and their media allies are still obsessed with the idea that President Trump didn’t actually win the 2016 election. This unwillingness to accept the electoral verdict explains why the “Russian collusion” conspiracy theory, by which Hillary Clinton’s campaign sought to explain her shocking defeat, gained so much traction. Two years after Hillary lost to Trump, Democrats promoted Abrams as a potential winner in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, and the predictable outcome — she lost by nearly 55,000 votes to Republican Brian Kemp — became the seed for a toxic conspiracy theory. “Voter suppression” supposedly explains how those evil Republicans cheated Abrams out of the governorship, and if you are skeptical of that claim, your skepticism will be cited as proof that you are a racist.
The rhetoric of the 21st-century Democratic Party is as simple as a coin toss: Heads, you vote Democrat, or tails, you’re a racist.
The implicit argument for Abrams as a Democrat “rising star” can be boiled down to this: She is a victim of oppression and is therefore better than other people who are less victimized. Such is the essence of “social justice” logic, in which everyone is automatically categorized according as either “privileged” or oppressed based on an identity politics calculus of intersectionality. It does not matter, for example, that Stacey Abrams is an alumna of Yale Law School, an elite institution that your kids could never hope to attend, even if you could afford the tuition — now nearly $60,000 a year — which obviously you can’t unless you’re rich. The Washington Post profile doesn’t explain how Abrams could afford to attend this elite Ivy League law school, but never mind that. Curiosity about the ascent of a “rising star” is probably racist, and if you doubt that people with degrees from Ivy League schools can be victims of oppression, you must be a Klansman or something. Full Article @ American Spectator
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You are being gaslit You are on the business end of a casual conspiracy of complicity.
No, you’re not crazy. They just want you to feel that way.
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Not one single slime in the swamp has been brought to justice. There is a time to love and a time to hate. This is a time to hate.
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