Why? Because no one is left on the left to "call them" on their racism. Certainly not the Democrats who are busy pretending to be non-racist themselves, but who are in fact just as racist as the Republicans. They are just too cowardly to match Republican racism for racism by putting it in their democratic platform, especially not with a mulatto as head of the Party.
The Democrats racist strategy is to use the non-white vote to get themselves elected and then immediately begin "tacking to the right" just as the old clever Southern politicians used to do; and just as Mr. Obama has done. With that strategy, except for their rhetoric during the election cycle, Democrats are no different than the openly racist Republicans.
The Republicans know all too well that race is their strongest "trump card" because even though there is absolutely no difference between Democrats and Republicans on the issue of race, the democrats cannot allow the issue to be aired openly. As a result, the Republican have held the Democrats in check through psychological blackmail by holding and then playing the race card to great effect and advantage.
God forbid that even a single Democrat would wake up one morning and admit that race not only is still America's most salient political issue, but also, next to illicit political money, is the Democratic Party's most salient political issue too -- especially now that they have elected a weak Mulatto President as a "stand-in" to make it seem otherwise.
Thus next to taking in large amounts of illicit campaign cash, the Democratic Party's number one problem is that its own cowardice and self-deception on the issue of race has not allowed it to formulate a coherent political philosophy to counter the bankrupt Republican philosophy, and thus its ambivalence on the issue of race means that the issue has not served the party well.
For instance, it has allowed Republicans to get away with using a thin veneer of Ayn Rand's Objectivism -- which when one looks under the hood will discover that it is just racism by another name -- to split off the "so-called" Independents, which in truth is just a euphemism for "racist Blue Dog Democrats." This has allowed the GOP to be able to place on the national agenda all of the false issues associated with privatization; and then has allowed them to be able to use them as a bludgeon to roll back FDR's New Deal Programs.
And again, unless one has missed the connection between Roosevelt's New Deal programs and race, Mitt Romney in coded racist language spelled it out for us during the 2012 Republican National Convention: According to him, Roosevelt's New Deal means "free stuff;" "free stuff," like "Cadillac driving welfare Queens," is code-word for "black."
Remember, according to Mr. Romney, Mr. Obama won only because, like Roosevelt, he too promised blacks "free stuff?" But the truth is that Mr. Obama promised blacks nothing, and then went out of his way to prove it by showing the public that blacks would be the only group that would get absolutely nothing from him. In effect, Republicans have used Barack Obama to do their racist bidding for them. They have scared Mr. Obama into thinking that any tilt in the direction of blacks only, ipso facto, defines him as a radical.
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