Note: Further down in this thread, we get into the question, what are Hillary's supporters angry about?)
Do not miss seeing the living, breathing, tough-New Yawk-talkin' embodiment of the pro-Hillary rage I discussed and linked here. This woman, who has an old-fashioned New York accent that sounds as if could cut through glass (and, combined with her white-hot anger, sounds as if it could cut through steel), has the surprisingly genteel-sounding name Harriet Christian.
Seeing white Democrats furiously protesting that they are getting a raw deal, as whites, reminds me of a remark by a southern paleocon at Chronicles many years ago, that he could never adjust to the idea of the Republicans being the party of white Southerners. There's definitely something to that. The Republicans--and their predecessors the Whigs--were the party of the commercial, rising classes and the infant globalists, not the party of the aristocrats, and not the party of the common man, the working man. The Democrats were the party of the working man, specifically the white working man. And the amazing spectacle we're witnessing now is the resurgence of the white working man and woman (albeit in a changed, modern incarnation) in the Democratic party. Or rather their rebellion against the Democratic party.
Did any pundit a year ago predict anything remotely like what we're seeing now?
And here's another truly strange thing. Just as many conservatives are determined not to vote for McCain and would prefer to have Hillary or even Obama as president, many Hillary supporters are determined not to vote for Obama and even declare their furious determination to vote for McCain for president. The conservatives want the Democrat, and the liberals want the Republican.
I've transcribed the YouTube video. Harriet Christian says (or rather erupts in a hot lava flow):
I'm proud to be an older American woman. ["Where are you from?" a reporter asks her.] New York City. Hillary state. The best nominee that's possible, and the Democrats are throwing the election away. For what? An inadequate black male, who would not have been running had it not been a white woman who was running for president.
I'm not going to shut my mouth anymore. I can be called white but you can't be called black. That's not my America. It's equality for all of us. It's about time we all stood up for it. I'm no second class citizen. And [censored] the Democrats.
I came here for the vote of every American, and our Democratic party threw us down the tubes. I was a second class citizen before, now I'm nothing. Why? Because they want to do what they want to do. And they think we won't turn and vote for McCain. Well I got news for all of you. McCain will be the next president of the United States.
It's a tremendous diatribe, which must be listened to, not just read. But I'm still not sure it makes any sense. I don't understand what their actual gripe is. Do they really think that Hillary should get the delegates of Michigan and Florida, and that it's some terrible injustice that she is not getting them? It doesn't make sense.
However, as I said before, it's not the specific thing (whatever it is) that set off their anger that matters and is remarkable, it's the anger itself, their sense of an injustice that has been done to them as whites, and their saying that they will not stand for it anymore.
--end of initial entry--
By coincidence, as I was drafting this blog entry, Ken Hechtman, the Canadian leftist, commenting on the thread, "The drama in the Democratic party," sent this:
You want to know how bad it is? This [the same YouTube linked above] is how bad it is.
When New York City socialist grandmas in tennis shoes start talking like you, we have a problem.
By "you," Mr. Hechtman means me, and by "we," he means the left.
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http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/010730.html What is bad for them is good for US.
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