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October 28, 2006
Dems' Paranoid Fantasies Could Suppress Black Vote
It appears that the corrosive paranoia hawked by Democrats may blow up in their faces.
Rather than address the weakness of its candidates or the unconstructiveness of its message, the Democratic Party has encouraged its followers to believe that its defeats are the work of Republican trickery. In both 2000 and 2004, we were repeatedly told that Bush didn't really win, but rather stole the election, in part through suppression of the black vote Dems rely on so heavily.
Now those crucial black voters are starting to wonder, If The Man is going to suppress my vote anyway, what's the use?
As the Gray Hag puts it:
[T]here are worries among Democratic strategists in some states that blacks may not turn up at the polls in big enough numbers because of disillusionment over past shenanigans.
Complains Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist and hater of "white boys":
This notion that elections are stolen and that elections are rigged is so common in the public sphere that we're having to go out of our way to counter them this year.
Even now the Times doesn't want to admit that these "shenanigans" are either absurdly exaggerated or completely fictitious. They report that teams of lawyers have been mobilized to find evidence of the mythical voter suppression that will once again be dragged out to explain their losses if common sense prevails next month.
Possibly for the same reasons that they vote overwhelmingly Democratic and tend to be sympathetic to the theory that George Bush blew up the World Trade Center, blacks are three times as likely as whites to believe that their votes will not be accurately tallied.
Says David A. Bositis of the Joint Center for Political Economic Studies, which is "dedicated to African-American issues":
African-Americans are more susceptible to conspiracy theories about the new [voting] technology because they have been subject to actual conspiracies more often than the rest of the population.
In other words, the reason they are paranoid is that the world really is out to get them. Or at least, that's what the politically correct establishment is committed to having them believe — even if it's to their own detriment.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 28, 2006 11:09 AM
Comments
If only they were as concerned about suppressing the Zombie-American vote.
Posted by: Hal at October 28, 2006 12:53 PM
