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Jack is a graduate of Rutgers University where he majored in history. His career in the life and health insurance industry involved medical risk selection and brokerage management. Retired in Florida for over two decades after many years in NJ and NY, he occasionally writes, paints, plays poker, participates in play readings and is catching up on Shakespeare, Melville and Joyce, etc.

Friday, August 28, 2020

A Right Wing Column (Marc Thiessen) Might Wake You Up

Minority voters, especially Black voters, will be crucial to a Democratic victory in November.  The President is aware of this and has included an appeal to minority voters in his message to his loyal family members and his loyal appointees present at the Trumpublican "convention's." sessions.   (The enormous number of American flags at these events, which were rallies and not conventions, was necessary to remind those in attendance that the event was taking place in the U.S.A. and not Russia or even war-time Germany, where similar events are and were routine.)

Marc Thiessen, right-wing columnist, wrote this Washington Post column which I dub his directory of "Uncle Toms."  Taking minority voters out of the Democratic base is the Preseident's aim and his carefully selected minority speakers are his tools.  Here is the column, lifted from one of the papers that carry it:

Trump makes an outstanding appeal to Black voters

Marc A. Thiessen
While Democrats spent most of their convention last week trying to fire up their lukewarm base, President Donald Trump spent the first night of his convention working to expand his with a concerted appeal to African American voters.
It began with a powerful speech by Kim Klacik, the dynamic young Black congressional candidate in Maryland’s 7th district who became an Internet sensation for her amazing campaign ad in which she gave voters a walking tour of her devastated Baltimore neighborhood.
“The Democrats have controlled my city, Charm City, for over 50 years, and they have run this beautiful place into the ground,” Klacik said Monday night.
“Abandoned buildings, liquor stores on every corner, drug addicts and guns on the street . . . “
Next came Georgia Democratic state Rep.
Vernon Jones. “As you can see, I’m a man of color, and I’m a lifelong Democrat,” he said. “The
Democratic Party does not want Black people to leave the mental plantation they’ve had us on for decades.
He praised Trump for “the most inclusive economy ever, with record low unemployment for African Americans” and for criminal justice reform that “ended once and for all the policy of incarceration of Black people which has decimated our communities, caused by no other than Joe Biden.”
Then came former NFL star Herschel Walker, who talked about his 37-year personal friendship with the president. “He keeps right on fighting to improve the lives of Black Americans and all Americans,” Walker said. “Some people don’t like his style, the way he knocks down obstacles that get in the way of his goals.
People on opposing teams didn’t like it when I ran right over them either. But that’s how you get the job done.”
Finally, there was a powerful address by Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.
He talked about his grandfather, forced out of school as a thirdgrader to pick cotton but who lived to see his grandson become the first African American elected to both the House of Representatives and the Senate. “Our family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime,” Scott said.
Why would Republicans expend this much time and effort on the first night of their convention trying to win over the Democrats’ most loyal voting bloc?
For one thing, Biden’s African American support is soft compared with Hillary Clinton’s: In recent live polls, he leads among Black voters by an average of 67 percentage points, well below Clinton’s 81-point margin in the 2016 exit polls.
Second, Trump has an outstanding record.He promised Black Americans during a 2016 speech in Charlotte that “whether you vote for me or not, I will be your greatest champion,” and he has delivered.
Third, Trump is making a concerted effort to win back the suburban voters who supported him in 2016 but who defected to Democrats in the 2018 midterms.
These voters heard speaker after speaker call Trump a racist last week, so it was powerful to hear a Black American such as Walker say: “Growing up in the Deep South, I have seen racism up close. I know what it is. And it isn’t Donald Trump.”
Like Walker, Trump spent the first night of his convention on the offense gaining yardage. It was an outstanding start.
Marc A. Thiessen is a columnist for The Washington Post.


I would hope that Black voters are not gullible enough to fall for this kind of malarky.  Some will fall for it.  You must act to counteract that!
Demand that Donald Trump and his Republican enablers take steps to recognize that (1) there are racial inequalities in this country that must be remedied now, and not in the future, (2) that the Covid19 pandemic is not over and its spread must be stopped, even at the price of a prompt return to economic normalcy and that (3) the United States is governed by the Constitution, not the Executive Branch of government.

You can do your part, if you agree with me, by doing something concrete to make sure your State's electoral votes go to Joe Biden in November, even if you feel his is too far to the right or too far to the left for you.  Joe is just right!   Here's how to do it.

(1)  Make sure you are properly registered to vote.
(2)  Plan on voting by mail or at an advance voting site, either way, at the earliest possible moment. Don't wait until Election Day.
(3)  Contact your voting precinct leader to find out specifically how you can work to retire Donald Trump.   Every vote counts and your efforts may be the difference that produces that winning vote.

JL

Keep practicing social distancing, wear a mask when out of your home and keep washing your hands!  That will reduce the spread of the virus, which can only be documented by increased testing, even of those without symptoms.  
And if the President or Florida's governor say something regarding Covid19, ignore it!  They both are politically motivated ignorant fools.  Listen only to scientists and physicians.

Stay Well!  We Need You!


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