8-31-19 The Hateful Haters of Hate

Nearing Midnight: The Hateful Haters of Hate - Todd Strandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/

 

The Democratic Party appears to have decided that its hope of gaining control of the White House in 2020 is to make racial division the centerpiece of its agenda. President Trump is constantly being compared to Adolf Hitler. Every act of hatred in the nation is somehow linked to him.

 

Senator Cory Booker told CNN that Trump is "worse than a racist." That is a rather confusing pronouncement, implying that the senator believes racists are not the worst of all people. Booker tried to explain himself: "[Trump] is actually using racist tropes and racial language for political gains, trying to use this as a weapon to divide our nation against itself." Booker was completely incapable of understanding the irony of his own words.

 

Booker is not the only person on the left whose rhetoric requires redefining the word "outrageous." MSNBC put alleged investigative journalist Vegas Tenold on the air, back in July, to claim, "We're at a point where Trump is more racist than neo-Nazis." Again, this is an amazing revelation that Nazism was not the low point in history. People are being brainwashed into thinking that the ultimate in hatred is occurring right before our eyes.

 

In August, Robert "Beto" O'Rourke said of Trump, "He is a racist, and he stokes racism in this country, and it does not offend our sensibilities; it fundamentally changes the character of this country and it leads to violence." Beto called President Donald Trump a white supremacist. When asked by MSNBC's Jacob Soboroff whether Trump is a white supremacist, O'Rourke said, without hesitation, "He is."

 

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren also claims that the president is a white supremacist. Warren told The New York Times at a campaign stop in Iowa that she thinks President Trump not only fits the label himself, but has also "given aid and comfort to white supremacists."

 

The Question, "Do you think President Trump is a white supremacist?" should be a simple test of a candidate's mental fitness. Anyone with an IQ above 60 should be able to determine that Trump doesn't fit into this category. Democrats are allowed to spout this nonsense because the liberal media is on their side.

 

The Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris wants to 'disarm violent hate' by seizing guns from bigots. If elected, she will push legislation that would authorize federal courts to issue gun confiscation orders against people who express opinions that may indicate an intent to commit a hate crime. These "domestic terrorism prevention orders" would "temporarily restrict a person's access to guns if they exhibit clear evidence of dangerousness," including "violent racist threats or anti-immigrant manifestos."

 

Her plan to "disarm violent hate" is pretty vague, and it would be difficult to make it consistent with the First Amendment. The creation of a federal "red flag" law would very likely infringe on constitutionally protected speech. If Harris is allowed to determine who will have their weapons confiscated, anyone who voted for Trump would likely make the list.

 

The political world doesn't have a monopoly on irrational protests against racism. Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid is still kneeling in silent protest before every football game. Reid is close friends with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and he was his sidekick in many protests during the national anthem. According to the Charlotte Observer, Reid's current reason for kneeling is to "protest racial inequality and social injustice in America." Maybe he is hoping to get fired so he can get a fat settlement check from the NFL and endorsement deals from Nike, just like his pal Kaepernick got.

 

The craziest recent statement on racism was made by Senator Bernie Sanders. Speaking to the Young Leaders Conference in Atlanta, Sanders pledged to "go to war against white nationalism and racism in every aspect of our lives." The senator cited his personal history, saying that his father's entire family was wiped out by "Hitler and his white nationalism." Ironically, just as Hitler scapegoated Jews as being responsible for almost all of Germany's problems at the time, so the modern American left seeks to hold white people of European descent responsible for all the Western world's problems today.

 

The lack of a single Democratic candidate with a reasonable view on racism shows how dangerous the world has become. If voters are foolish enough to elect someone who sees his enemy as neo-Nazis, then any action they take will be justifiable. If there is no standard on what qualifies as hateful speech, there will also be no standard on who qualifies as a bigot.

 

"Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:10).