Originally published without thanking Stephen Hall for another fine Monday morning post!! Sorry about that Stephen, and thank you!
Even though this is not an election year, it would appear an opportune time to revisit a bit of demographic manipulation and how that affects the everyday news. In particular, there have, prior to the Trump presidency, been a distinct view of the political parties in America due to it’s majoritarian nature as a party of core and consistent philosophy and an opposition party comprised of a coalition of interests aligned against that party.
Rather obviously, it has been the Democrat party which has been the coalition party, made up of a loose collection of generally single issue voters who join together in the solidarity of that most renown of political statements by Machiavelli, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Traditionally this coalition has formed around unrelated concepts about which the rest of the voting population have been largely indifferent, particularly even in their own party. It was precisely because their fellow Democrats were largely indifferent to those solitary issues that admitted their coalition to form at all.
The feminists cared about nothing but abortion; the tree-huggers cared only about environmental issues and legalized pot; the poor only wanted the Welfare; the elderly needed their Social Security; the unionists only cared about dues and union shop laws; the liberal academicians only cared about more money for their industry; et cetera.
However, central to several of these piecemeal groups had been various vague concepts of identity politics. That is to say that over the years these single issues became so much more than simply issues, they became the very way that these voting blocs thought of themselves. They came to define themselves by their voting issues.
The problems with that fractious identity party come about when those factions which have their very identities defined by thier policies which become increasinly antagonistic towards the other factions of that very same party.
We have seen the beginnings of these fractures with PETA using sexual images of young naked women to titillate audiences riling up the feminist actions of the same party. We have seen union members losing jobs because their allies, the environmentalists, shutting down pipeline and other construction.
An these fissures continue to grow, it is both helpful and entertaining to look at some of the numbers behind the fissures and that drive the issues.
Ninety percent of black people in this country vote Democrat and black people make up one eighth of the nation’s population. As Democrats make up about half of the nation, that means that black democrat voters make up about 22% of the Democrat voters.
The re-surging militancy of the black Democrat voters, embodied with the “black lives matter” movement is becoming increasingly racist and in particular anti-white.
But those white people make up almost 60% of that same Democrat party. The Democrats like to label the Republicans as the party of old, white men. How do those old white union workers react to their fellow Democrats’ tirades against old white men? It was okay when it was limited to hating the “rich” old white men, because they didn’t feel the target.
Feminists, becoming the identity politics of women, more than just the pro-abortion wing of the party, are becoming increasingly antagonistic towards men in general. This “rape culture” mantra of the feminists is becoming increasingly vitriolic towards men in general. One must presume that all Democrat men are not Pajama Boy, but that many would be offended at being called rapists and a menace to society.
While men only make up about 40% of the Democrat voter, one must compare how much the Democrats court 22% of their voter base while maligning this particular 40%. It has been noted that the Democrats have not managed to win a majority of the white male vote since 1968. How many male votes is Mattress Girl courting? How are you college age males going to react to this ongoing political treatment from the coalition party?
The Jewish population in America makes up about 2% of the population, but they vote 70% in line with the liberal Democrats, and due to their demographic concentration make up a much larger percentage in certain cities like New York. However, the Democrat party has been increasingly hostile towards the political interests of our ally Israel, which is of a particular interest to the Jewish voting bloc. Why?
That is demographically simple, there are now almost as many Muslims in America as Jews and they vote Democrat in even greater percentages, so the Democrats have to calculate whose votes mean more to them, the growing Muslim population or the relatively stagnant Jewish vote. That is a pretty easy political decision.
There are many other group divisions and examples, and these conflicts are increasing. A party of the KKK, BLM, and La Raza obviously has a difficult enough time keeping these groups with common cause. Just as they need to keep corporate monetary support pouring in from giant corporations like Facebook, Google, Starbucks, & Amazon while still pulling in the votes of the anti-corporate, communistic children of AntiFa & BLM.
A coalition party with not only diverse elements, but actively hostile elements, can only be held together through a mutual antagonism to the opposing party. However, anger of Republicans is becoming increasingly hard to maintain when the average voter is experiencing more hatred from his fellow Democrat than from the Republicans.
The essence of a coalition is that of trying to create a majority composed of many small minute factions which attach to a central core constituency. That core constituency has always been for the Democrats the working classes, the farmer and the factory worker.
Thus, every coalition government must ask themselves how much they cater to the fringe elements attached to their core party versus how much they have to support their base, their core.
Recently, Democrats have become unusually vocal about an open antagonism towards the traditional core of their party, the middle class American worker. Imagine a Democrat party which lost completely the white male worker vote, about 30% of their entire party.
Thus the Democrat party is left with only two options in the face of the possibility of losing their core. Either they import enough people to replace all the voters they alienate by their identity politics, or they rig the votes so that they are not dependent upon catering to the voters at all.
So, I wrap this up with one observation. What keeps the attached factions in the Democrat fold when there is no longer any thing to which to attach? What would keep these factions from going after each other?
Right now, the only thing holding the Democrat party together is their united opposition to everything Republican. However, it increasingly looks like the Republicans are not holding together. Without the Republican foil, the Democrats will collapse, it is what opposition coalition parties do.
