Gut Check: The Race Race

As political races loom and gloom sets in among democrats, the topic of racism heats up. Race warfare is the weapon you grab when it looks really, really bad. The sad part: it works!

While racism exists (everywhere), the notion that it drives all behavior and activity seems now a religion bordering on cult-like devotion.

If you choose to believe, you cannot un-believe, and you work the crowd entirely on faith. You could have voted for Obama once, and not voted for him again – and that decision not to vote had to be racist. It’s a smear against both the candidate and the voter. You diminish the candidate’s ideas and the voter’s intent. But it’s all the desperate leftists have left. Ideas were never their strong point.

But look: We all have faults. On the right, we rely on certain mechanisms to rally the base.

But nothing comes as close, in terms of shameless dishonesty, as race.

Words become more inflammatory than action. As twitchy activists scour the landscape for any semblance of outrage, they ignore bigger ticket miseries – rapes of girls, mass kidnappings, publicized execution. A bad joke on Twitter will get a petition; a horrible crime will not.

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