See, as much as US talks about race, it doesn’t matter in actual elections. Instead it’s taxes, economy and defense and all the bullshit you can talk about that stuff.
I found that quote on Youtube. Elections are not about race. Even politics is not about race.
All of these things are cultural wars. Remember the Culture Wars of the 1960′s? What could politicians do about that? Make it illegal to have long hair, listen to rock music and be a hippie?
There really is nothing that politicians can do about race. All they can do is pass a few anti-discrimination laws here and there, and then sit back and hope people act nice. Those laws are basically just politicians ordering people to be nice and not discriminate. But a lot of folks keep on doing it anyway, and there is not much politicians can do about it.
These cultural wars are fought at the street level . People who fight the Culture Wars are not politicians but Identity Politics activists, writers, journalists, artists and movie stars and directors, academics at universities, and people working in various “diversity specialist” occupations going around giving lectures, etc. A lot of this does involve indoctrination, but most of that takes place at universities, and once you leave the university, nobody is going to harangue you or try to brainwash you all that much.
The Cultural Wars are fought by regular flesh and blood humans, not Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi.
If I am in public and I refer to Black people as niggers, some nearby non-White or liberal White is going to reprimand or shame me in some way or another. The law can’t do anything about it. If someone calls the cops on me, the police will say, “Well, he has the free speech right to refer to Black people as niggers if he wants to. It’s a free country, and we don’t get involved in such things.”
If I am at a coffee shop, and I make a disparaging remark about faggots, some young woman university student will act embarrassed, then turn cold and hostile and throw a bunch of PC crap at me to let me know what a loser and a scum I am for dissing the wonderful and glorious gay people. If I make a sexist comment, my girlfriend or Mom might raise some objections. My girlfriend would probably accuse me of hating women. This will embarrass me, and I would retract my comment and insist I don’t hate women at all.
People’s sexual behavior periodically goes through various changes. Levels of homosexual activity and group sex activity go up and down with the times. People never used to watch porn, but now they live off it. People, even women amazingly enough, now cover themselves with tattoos like cannibals and pierce their bodies like primitive tribesmen.
What politician made them people do any of those things? No one.
Cultural trends in body modification or adornment, hair and clothing styles, sexual activity and whatnot do not have much to do with politics. The politicians can do jack all about any of those things, and mostly they don’t even comment or remark on them. And looking at the cultural shifts and twists and turns above, it is hard to see how politicians could pass a law that could change or modify the course of any of these trends.
Who people date is a cultural issue that has nothing to do with politics. I brought a Black girl home once, and it was quite an interesting scene. My parents were nice, especially my liberal father, but my Black girlfriend later said they were “phony.” When we went out in public, racist White crackers would snicker at us, and groups of young Black men would look at me like they were going to kick my ass. Some of my White friends ridiculed me and called me a nigger lover. All of these reactions took place outside of politics. Politicians had fuck all to do with any of the reactions of any of those people. Why? Because like most cultural issues, it is almost completely outside of politics.
Believe it or not, politics does not have much to do with most of our lives. Most of our lives are completely outside of politics, and nothing the politicians do will effect these activities in one way or another.
