© 2018 Jim Spence - The mainstream news media never uses
the term “identity politics,” despite the fact the strategy is the most
important philosophical pillar of the Democrat's political playbook.
What does the term “identity politics” mean?
Identity politics is how the Democrats
like to think about human beings. Democrats don’t think of voters so much as
individual human beings. For constructing their election strategies, they prefer to
lump people together according to the “groups” that Democrats think they belong to.
This identity grouping is done for the purpose of determining a person’s
ability to cite grievances. Typically the grievances are very generalized and based simply on the idea that the people are members of certain groups.
There is an end game evolving with this strategy.
Democrat’s ultimate strategy is to convince everyone in every group, except
white men, that they are victims. This explains why Democrats are so willing to slap
the racist label on any white person who is seeking office as a Republican. In the Democratic playbook, at election time, all white men are
oppressors.
It was actually quite comical a couple
of years ago when a CNN reporter stopped legendary Cleveland Browns running
back and accomplished movie actor Jim Brown, as he exited a meeting with then
President-elect Trump. Brown quickly bristled at her identity politics slanted
question. He glared at the offending reporter and said to her emphatically, “I am
not a victim.”
After making many millions of dollars in a wildly successful
acting career after playing football, who could argue with Jim Brown? The
answer is only a Democrat could argue that he is some sort of victim, by trying
to lump him into their group-based victim’s hierarchy.
At first glance, it might seem odd that
lately Democrats have taken to throwing “white women” under the rhetorical
bus too. In the Democrat’s minds, white women are becoming tricky little hybrid identities.
Sure, they are victims, simply because they are women. But they are also oppressors
because they are white. Democrats have been slow to recognize they have been
alienating white women by inferring that those of them who have white husbands, are all racists. Democrats also freely accuse the white women who don’t vote Democrat of being accomplices in white men's endless oppression of other, "groups."
What is the informal hierarchy for
Democrat’s victim groups? Blacks lead the list, they are followed closely by
Hispanics, Native Americans, all illegal immigrants, gays, lesbians,
trans genders, and non-Christians, except of course for Jews who enjoy "privilege" except for that little holocaust thing.
How valuable is it for a Democrat to be
able to claim they belong to a victim’s group? Apparently it is critical. Check
out the machinations of presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren. Warren has been
claiming she is part Cherokee for quite some time. Recently she actually went
so far as to get a dubious DNA test done, ostensibly to prove her identity with Native
American heritage. She did this despite the fact that the validity of such DNA
tests for this purpose, is scientifically dubious at best. Over the weekend, Warren
jubilantly announced the results of her private “DNA” test proved she actually
does have some Cherokee blood.
Amusingly, the Cherokee Nation
immediately responded to her saying Warren’s use of a DNA test to justify her
claim of Native American ancestry were inappropriate. “A DNA test is useless to
determine tribal citizenship,” the Cherokee Nation said in a statement released
Monday. “Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for
citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as
paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a
DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal
nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA
tests and its legitimate uses, while also dishonoring legitimate tribal
governments and their citizens,” the tribe said.
Still, according to Warren, supposedly
she is between 0.09 and 1.5 percent Native American. This means she has
possibly at least one Native American ancestor between get this……….6 and 10
generations back. Apparently, the average American’s DNA would yield similar
results thanks to plenty of DNA combinations dating back to 1492.
It turns out that Carlos D. Bustamante,
the Stanford University professor who actually conducted the Warren DNA test,
said Native American DNA does not exist in DNA researcher’s databases because
tribal leaders discourage members from participating in genetic testing. And
according to Warren’s close political pals at the Boston Globe, “To make up for
the dearth of Native American DNA, Bustamante used samples from Mexico, Peru,
and Colombia to stand in for Native American. That’s because scientists believe
that the groups Americans refer to as Native American came to this land via the
Bering Strait about 12,000 years ago and settled in what’s now America but also
migrated further south.”
The Elizabeth Warren story is not so
much about her absurd claims for the purpose of securing group identity as it is about the political
value perceived by those in the Democratic Party, of simply NOT being “white.”
Put me down in the Jim Brown camp. Jim Brown is not a victim. Neither is Elizabeth Warren or Colin Kaepernick for that matter. And the
millions of poor whites in America did not really squander their "privilege." They never
had any to squander. In the end, real victims don’t want to be victims. If you are a victim, it
means something bad has happened to you…….unless you are a Democrat politician.
If you are a Democrat politician, you crave victim hood. You also try to brainwash your
constituents with the group identity scam for the political purpose of convincing them there is value in being a victim.
It would seem that multi-millionaire Kanye West recently discovered he is not a victim. What a shame.

Claiming victim status is in the DNA