Keywords/Terms: Chronic Capitalism; Latino
Community; Donald Trump; NALEO; Important Trade partner; San Diego; New Mexico;
Animosity; Republican Strategist; Hate; Polarizing; Democratic National
Committee (DNC); Establishment Democrats; Establishment Republicans; ALEC
Group; K-Street Lobbyists; and Retrogressive Fund Raising Strategy
There
was confusion in San Diego, California yesterday, May 27, 2016, at the venue of
Mr. Trump’s rally and no one can exclude the Latino bolshevism: the object of
the conflict is the opposition to comments from the presumptive Republican
nominee regarding members of the Latino community in the United States. The war
against immigrants, the more than offensive categorization of people from the
Southern borders of the United States, as criminals, rapists and not the best
the continent has to offer, were hardly lost in this San Diego, California protest.
There had been some objections less than one hour of Mr. Trump’s kick-off of
his 2016 White House campaign in New York, about twelve months ago, regarding the
bias and absurdity of his comments about a huge segment of the Latino community;
with many leaders of the community lambasting the real estate mogul as not
being able to separate fiction from reality. Mr. Trump’s diatribe elicited
acrimony within the Latino community to an extent that, Mr. Arturo Vargas,
Executive Director of National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed
Officials (NALEO), lamented in an email to the press that, developing a sound
foreign policy with the most important trade partner to the United States, is
not the same as a reality TV show!
The
acrimony between Businessman Donald Trump had persisted throughout his campaign
for the White House oval office and since attaining the height of the
Republican flag bearer, Mr. Trump has not taken the advantage of building a
bridge to the community; rather, he had continually hunkered down on building a
“huge and tall wall which Mexico is going to be made to pay for” against members
of the community. To compound the bad blood and sitting resentment of inaccurate
categorizing of members of the Latino community, Mr. Trump went after the first
and lone standing female Republican governor of the State of New Mexico; a poor
judgement that appears to be a key and new rallying point against his candidacy
in that community. The unfortunate swipe against Governor Susana Martinez of
the State of New Mexico, as the cause for all the economic woes of her state;
and, the uncharacteristic nose-thumbing and denouncement of the first female
Latino governor in the United States, from a White Caucasian presumptive
Republican Nominee, are more than enough reasons for the anti-Trump rally in
San Diego; a situation that is now very concerning for many members of the
Republican Party, who have been working hard to woo this segment of the
American voters, lately.
America
now has a high flying and trending major party presumptive nominee, who has
been able to stare up a hullabaloo among a huge segment of her voting population,
to the extent that close to none of them, want anything to do with his
candidacy, or campaign for the White House oval office. The animosity between
the Latino community in the past fifteen months, since Mr. Trump proposed
building a wall in the Southern border to keep members of the Latino Community
out of the United States, has been rather offensive and enigmatic to members of
this community. Even, seasoned Republican strategists and power brokers
wondered and question, why Mr. Trump went after Governor Martinez in her state
in the first place, considering his reputation with that segment of the
American voters; and, the possible repercussions this may have in coalescing
support behind his candidacy and ensuring victory for the Republican Party in
November general election. Say what you may, the die has been cast and the
battle and close to riot at the Sand Diego Convention Center yesterday, appears
not going to be easing very soon as many segment in this group of voters have
vowed to restore not only the honor of Latinos but also that of the first two-term
female conservative Republican, who has won two statewide elections in a blue
state with a large Hispanic population. Like two of the placards carried
yesterday by protesters at San Diego Convention Center said: “Trump Equals
Hate”; “Trump is Polarizing.”
Establishment
Republican Politicians seeing this type of placards about their presumptive
nominee, are wondering what to do next: 1) side with a party presumptive
nominee, whose hateful ranting has propelled him to the front of the row and
advanced his ambition to the White House, readily; or 2) suffer the consequence
of reaching out to a promising up and rising Republican Latino female who has
been successful in burnishing her image with the opposition party in a state
that is largely Democratic, by winning two consecutive gubernatorial elections?
The choice is not as easy as you will expect; it is like being caught between
the sea and a hard rock! Political historians documenting the power play in the
Republican Party and the new paucity in support from the Latino Community in
this round of contest for the White House oval office, are probably alarmed by
the distortion of the image of Latino decent from the eventual Republican
nominee; and wondering if other voters in the Republican party will unwittingly
side with hateful speeches in the bid to coalescence behind their party’s flag
bearer? The illusion of supporting the party’s eventual nominee for the sake of
having a unifying front against the Democrats may be alluring at this time;
however, after the general elections, where does the party go from here?
It is
sufficient to recall that until most recently, many establishment Republicans
denounced Mr. Trump’s brand of campaign for the White House oval office, with
many calling him racist, unfit to be president and con man in some cases. It is
also amazing to realize that since his controversial campaign strategy has
propelled him to the fore-front, many republicans are wondering what is their
party turning out to be; or, what exactly is the party of Reagan charting as
its new course in 2016? The rather offensive pronouncements of the Republican
nominee against a huge segment of American minorities would have been frowned
upon and discouraged; however, it now appears that the executive and
establishment Republicans find themselves helpless with the new scenario of
voting and support within their party. Mr. Trump’s brand of controversial
campaign strategy, formerly denounced and discouraged by many establishment
Republicans is now the order of the day and the shining example of what the
Republican party may become in the future; and hopefully will not entomb or
comatose conservative Republicanism. Such is the change that is in vogue today
with the Republicans; and, thanks to the failure of the party’s executives to
act on time to discourage this brand of campaigning from their party’s
presidential aspirants?
Grounded
Republican Conservatives who distant themselves from the brand of Trump’s
campaign for the White House may suffer a radical parting of ways with the rank
and file that form the basis of support of Mr. Trump’s campaign. Some who are
skittish and afraid of what they might get for parting ways from the presumptive
Republican nominee on this round of general election, may see what is happening
to New Mexico governor and say, it is so sad and I don’t want to be part of
it; or roll over and say, that’s just the nature of politics; you either beat
them or you join them.
Now, if
you are so worried about how acceptable mistreatment of those who go against
the current day fad or grain in the Republican Party campaign for the White
House, if you are so enameled with the fact that, despite Donald Trump’s unconventional
campaign strategy undermining the rights of minority groups to full respect
within their country, how a campaign of bigotry and misogynies have given
Donald Trump a leg up in the campaign for 2016 White House, wait until you find
out what the Democratic National Committee has been up to with campaign fund
raising and associated, undermining of progressive rules championed by former candidate
Barack Hussein Obama, in his run for the White House in 2008 and 2012 under the
banner of Democratic Party.
As reported
by Washington Post, May 27, 2016, Friday edition, the Democratic National
Committee is in cahoots with K-Street Lobbyists, Federal lobbyists and Political
Action Committees, in undermining whatever is left of the restriction on receiving
campaign money from policy influencers, money that has so much undermined the
foundation of America’s Democracy. It appears the Democratic National Committee
has not only sold its soul to the devil by succumbing to big money interest
groups, seeking to take the power away from the voting booth; it is scrumptiously
accommodating opportunities for outside influences to roam the corridor of
power with impunity, once again. If you are disgusted with past stories of the
ALEC Group’s influence in writing and passing bills in US Congress and State’s
capitol, you’ll probably be shocked to your bones, how the Democratic National
Committee has chosen to reverse course and allow the Democratic process to be
undermined by political marauders, ill-reputed men and women, who are readily
available to use the power of excessive money to undermine the true essence of America’s
Democracy. If you wonder why an outsider to the mainstream political party
process is turning upside down the house of Republicans, you must not be
surprised, if progressive groups confront Democratic Establishment regarding its
choice to reversing a course that could have liberated our Democracy from
excessive influence of money in modern day politics.
The
Democratic National Committee is once again, permitting itself to arbitrarily
accommodate a phenomenon that is considered unreliable and unacceptable in a
free, fair and transparent democracy. 2016 Democratic National Committee has
strikingly disregarded common sense policy and guideline that could have taken
back power for the people; a party progressive policy that could have wiped out
a culture of corruption in American politics. When will it be possible for the
Democratic National Committee to take the high road, of choosing to be above
board as it raises campaign money; action that could have shown how distinctly respectful
the Democratic Party is of the power of the rank and file, the power of the acclaimed
disenfranchised, the same group of voters that are creating the upheaval that
everyone is criticizing as unwholesome for establishment Republican party. The
same reason Bernie Sanders is calling for a revolutionary campaign to take back
power for the people. If any establishment Democrat is wondering why Bernie
Sanders is doing so well on the ground and why many of his supporters are
vowing not to vote Hillary Clinton, this is one of the reasons. The campaign system
for office is so fraught with so much disgusting fraud that only a complete
house cleaning, as advocated by Senator Bernie Sanders, can help redeem our
Democracy. For many Democrats who are wondering why Bernie Sanders has not
thrown in the towel and yielded way to Hillary Clinton to be the party’s flag bearer,
here is a true example of what is so disgusting about mainstream Democratic
Party; and another reason, why many rank and file supporting Bernie Sanders,
are calling for progressive revolution in the party.
It is
not just okay to begrudge Donald Trump for being so distastefully disgusting in
running an unconventional presidential campaign that railroads the right of
minority groups in America. Now, we know that Hillary Clinton is in a joint
fund raising imbroglio with the Democratic National Committee that poo-poos any
circumstellar superiority claim to the Republican party by Democrats. The
probably Democratic National Committee’s preferred nominee for party flag bearer
is in bed with moneyed interest groups that continue to do damage to our
democracy, with implicit consent of the Democratic National Committee. If you are
frustrated with why the whole system appears as corrupted, and you wonder why
Donald Trump continues to assert that Hillary Clinton is crooked and
untrustworthy, or are imagining why the Democratic National Committee is introducing
new rules in the middle of the game that will advantage the former US Secretary
of State, or is frustrated with chronic capitalism and why it is doing damage
to a free and fair electoral democracy, here is your time to say no to a very
bad and unacceptable reversal. Here is an opportunity to refuse to follow what
is manifestly unacceptable and retrogressive in campaign for the highest office
in the land; and call for total reform and complete ouster of overwhelming money
influence in American politics. Here is the time to identify with what Bernie Sanders
categorically condemns and proclaims as disgusting and unacceptable in a free
society; and, demand that the Democratic National Committee find other means of
raising money to facilitate elections and Democratic Party victory.
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