Sad day today in America, but having lived and thrived in this country for two decades, I know better days are always ahead. America tends to reinvent itself from time to time then take giant steps back when republicans are in power. I believe Trump's election set the country back 20-30 years and even many years on race matters. Trump Presidency and republicans had three agendas they were pursuing aggressively. One was making America white through immigration laws. The second was gutting voting rights to weaken minorities, especially black folk, through egregious gerrymandering. Lastly was stacking the courts with white conservative judges. They succeeded by putting more than 300 judges with three in the supreme court. When Kyle Rittenhouse alike sail in courts, you know what kind of judges are on the benches.
The Republican party has no factions; it is a lily-white voter base of about 30-40% of the country, but they show up to vote and go above and beyond to ensure their votes count. Democrats, on the other hand, are factions of immigrants, educated white liberals, blacks, and other minorities. Their goals, objectives, and values are usually not aligned, so the struggle persists. With gerrymandering in most states, republican votes are efficient, meaning 1 republican vote is almost equal to 3 democratic votes because of how congressional districts are drawn. The new congressional maps drawn in some states have significantly weakened the black vote. In some congressional districts, 3-7 black voters have power equivalent to 1 white. To make it worse, for example, a state like Wyoming, with 578K people, has two senators and equal power with California, a state with over 39 million people and the 5th largest economy in the world. In DC, over 700K people, primarily blacks, have no representation. For a while, I thought having power would change a lot of built-in injustices, but when Obama had 60 senate votes, the house and white house, nothing major happened. If Trump had 60 senate votes and the house, a lot could have changed for the worse; even with a slim majority of 53, you can tell he was consequential in his actions. I follow US politics closely, and the only constant thing in republican politics is not economy, education, rights, but immigration. They are a one-issue party though they don't talk much about it.
Under Trump and Miller immigration plan was to reverse almost 60 year gain by only making mostly middle easterners, White Hispanics, Russians, and other European citizens and diminishing Black or non-white immigrants significantly for 4 years straight. Even in Census reports, they fully authorized Hispanics to be labeled white to make America almost 70% White (I guess symbolically) when it was 59% during Obama. Every law republicans passed, proposed, tweaked was geared towards completely restricting non-white immigrants and gutting voting rights. Most of the immigration judges trumped installed to have the highest asylum denial rates (
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/AG-William-Barr-promotes-immigration-judges-with-14373344.php).
Even the three supreme court judges' records were examined on the immigration views, voting rights, and a host of issues that touch minorities. Any judge with the most anti-minority/immigrant views got promotions and was placed in appropriate areas.
Topic: Kyle Rittenhouse NOT GUilty (Read 970 times)