Outline for Victory (III): Minorities
“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.”
— Sun Tzu (The Art of War)
Minorities are not enemy, they are the future. The enemy are the elite, who own the Democratic Party. As an elite, they want political war to be about anything other than the truth — elite control of the rest of us. As race helped white Southerners run the South through the Democratic Party from 1876 to 1964, so 2021’s elite would hold power through a Democratic army united against “white supremacy.”
Understand what the elite are doing? We should, because Sun Tzu is right. If they know only their race war against “white supremacy” while missing the fight against elite control, then we knowing both self and enemy will win.
There is truth behind elite use of race. White exploitation of Blacks wasn’t fully rectified with Barack Obama’s election. That rectification continues, and will keep most Blacks loyal Democrats. But class divisions are more significant than “white supremacy,” and they cut across race lines.
Conservative Shane Devine has written about party realignment. It’s not coming from the GOP. It’s coming from what Democrats fail to do -– look out for workers. Democrats instead have become the party of corporate, tech, and financial power.
In January 2020 as the Democratic primaries began, Joe Biden’s campaign chairman told 90 Wall Street donors to back Biden. Wall Street then gave more than $74 million directly to Biden’s campaign, and only $18 million to Trump.
Today, Biden’s appointees range from Democratic careerists such as Rahm Emanuel, Janet Yellen, Antony Blinken, and John Kerry to those from Wall Street and Silicon Valley, including Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Google, and Facebook.
Understand, corporations no longer want government to leave them alone. They want government helping them. While they can accept a few extra taxes or regulations, their smaller competition can’t. Revenue-killing regulations shield corporations from market forces. Democrats open the door to profitable government contracts. The historic free-enterprise market Republicans favor contrasts with today’s corporation thriving on monopoly.
Understand, elites don’t start businesses. It’s lesser-educated adults hoping for their share of the middle class who do so. The top 10% hardly care if America’s former social mobility, built on a free market, hardens into a caste system protecting the elite.
The country’s 100 counties with the highest median incomes voted for Biden over Trump by 57%. The 100 counties with the largest share of college degrees voted 84% for Biden. Trump won 83% of the nation’s counties, but they hold only 30% of the national GDP. Biden won only 17% of counties, but with 71% of GDP.
To survive, the GOP needs workers. “Working class” refers to people with direct, material interests. Devine writes that class warfare must override Republican cultural appeals. You see, “economic identity unites people across racial and religious boundaries”. Economic identity unites across racial boundaries.
Understand, a workers’ GOP would not outsource, would not add immigrant workers who undercut wages and break strikes, would not expand the gig economy, bust unions, get rid of the minimum wage, or employ class war tactics against workers.
This workers GOP would base policy on what working constituents want. Workers would decide which reforms help them, and the party would turn reforms into legislation. As for the donors the GOP will lose, Devine says, “who needs donors when you already have the votes?”
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| Young KIm and Michelle Steel |
Californians For Equal Rights Foundation has helped organize that state’s majority non-white population to “defend merit and advance equality” against elite efforts to enshrine affirmative action in California’s constitution. This pro-meritocracy force helped elect Korean-American Republican Congresswomen Young Kim and Michelle Park Steel over incumbent Orange County Democrats.
Then there’s what happened last November along the Texas border with Mexico. This heavily Hispanic area — four congressional districts 64%, 73%, 79%, and 82% Hispanic — shifted dramatically toward Trump. They elected one Republican and reduced three other Democrats’ victory margins by a 7% average to as little as 51%.
Republican winner Tony Gonzales said:
Trump’s message resonated, and the message was really, almost, “You're not forgotten. We haven't forgotten you.” And it spoke to a lot of people. And they weren't 18-, 19-year-olds, they were older voters that had kind of just been disenfranchised, that were ignited again.
Democratic leaders know race is a divisive issue that works. It helps the elite defend against meaningful class divisions in spite of the desire for meritocracy among Asian Americans and others, and in spite of working class Blacks and Hispanic Americans upset about illegal immigrants taking their jobs.
As social scientists Stéphane Beaud and Gérard Noiriel warn in their book, race is a “bulldozer” that destroys other subjects.
That’s both true and wrong. Know the enemy and win.
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