Hillary Clinton, You Don't Scare Me

It's really amazing, no, make that sad, to watch Hillary Clinton as she digs into her old bag of tricks and whip out her well-worn fear stick.  She, like most democrats, uses the fear stick to beat blacks into submission.  Case in point; last month at a campaign rally in Houston, she said, "They're doing everything they can to stop black people, Latinos, poor people, young people, people with disabilities from voting.  It's a blast from the Jim Crow past. I thought we had won that battle back in the 1960s. To see it rear its ugly head is such a great disappointment.  It's one of the barriers I intend to knock down."  Oh really?



If you're thinking that she was speaking to all of the aforementioned groups, think again.  She was specifically speaking to blacks, which is why she went on to reference Jim Crow and the Civil Rights era.  Clinton knew there would be backlash had she simply said, "Watch out black people, they're coming for you."  But she's well aware that of all the groups she mentioned, only blacks are truly loyal democrats, and only blacks consistently fall for this kind of fear-mongering.  Some young people will vote for Bernie Sanders, some will be voting republican.  The same can be said for poor people, people with disabilities and Latinos.  In fact, in Nevada's primary, Trump won 45% of the vote from Hispanics.

This is nothing new of course. It's standard operating procedure for democrats to invoke race, racism, lynching, Jim Crow and KKK into the campaign in an effort to woo black voters.  The thing that gets me is that it always works.  It's as though the candidate, and in this case, it's Hillary, has no background or no baggage.  Have people really forgotten that Hillary was a major mouthpiece for President Clinton's drug sentencing reform?  You know the one that has so many people talking about the poor (blacks) with crack being sent to prison for a longer period of time than someone with 100 times more powder cocaine?  What about the violent urban youth whom she called "super predators" and said we could "worry about how they got this way later", but first we need to "heel" them (don't dogs heel?) Or the issue of welfare reform, which according to several studies has driven the poor deeper into poverty.  If memory serves me correctly (and it does), I think it was Mrs. Clinton who called people on welfare "deadbeats."

Full disclosure here, I would never vote for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, and frankly, I think there was merit to some of Bill Clinton's policies.  But my point is that many of the black people that are "so proud" to support Hillary are the very same people that complain about unfair prison sentencing and the prison industrial complex.  They are willing to support anyone, even socialist-run organizations that promise to lift up the poor by accessing more government welfare. Yet, they're vigorously supporting Hillary Clinton who was co-architect of the very policies they say are hurting them.  Does that make sense?  Of course not.

So are we actually talking about some form of collective masochism?  No, nothing that dramatic. It's fear, plain and simple. Whenever fear is used against someone it's done so for the purpose of controlling them, convincing them to do whatever they want.  And that's exactly what Democrats have successfully done with black people.