The democratic party has definitely won the politics of the “Browning of America”.Or as Allan likes to say, “Look at the new boss. Same as the old boss”.
There was always a buddy system and other perversions of access to opportunity.People of color will learn not to make mistakes like Obama did with belonging to Reverend Wright’s church. The Sotamayors of the world will realize they no longer have to play a race card now and then(if she ever did). Civil Rights and Feminism were not mistakes.Gays, People of color and women, became to the Democratic party what evangelicals and Billy Bobs came to be to the Republicans.That might sound like a terrible insult to a lot of people and it is not meant to be. Just to say, in the game of “how do you get more tickets punched” the Republicans have lost. Look for the Republicans to start kissing up to a different bases, like the democrats did with the evangelicals after Bush won. Don’t look for a return of some noble republican old school camp, that’s bullshit.
IF we are seeing more instances of favoritism to people who happen to be of different pigment than before,or non-european ancestry or of roots based in multiple continents, who also are Democrats and they are taking slots the Bushes,Palins, Grahams and Robertsons of the world, maybe it is not that significant of a change given the demographic shifts.
The backlash against white males was obvious for all to see. Maybe in some ways it’s day had come.
People who want to maintain the fantasy that this country was run on a merit system before it started going brown and hope for a return to that glorious day, need to wake up. Ideas like that might actually be based in racial preference. I am actually afraid that instead of evolving and truly contributing to the greatness of this now darker country, the old school is trying to get all it can before they end up victim of a “level playing field” (sic),at least in America). I am afraid that these wars(and profits, Commodity and, fiancial bubbles, and outrageous executive salaries and other financial scandals are part of it. The greed was always there but it went into overdrive in face of these threatening shifts.
