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The Race Card – Political Absurdity

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We almost hesitate to publish this article. The race card and the identity politics of victim/blame is everywhere. It has even replaced The Muller Report as Story One in the news and is pulling our nation apart. Still, the topic is almost too sensitive to touch. To many, especially white Americans, being called a racist is tantamount to blacks being called the “N” word.

Growing Acceptance of The Race Card

I googled Racism In The News as part of doing research for this article. Page one listed 14 articles on the topic, including:

  • NAACP Sues School Over Racist Names
  • Trump Labels Elijah Cummings as Racist
  • Americans Fear Political Violence (Surrounding Aggressive Language From Candidates)
  • Tape Reveals Regan Made Racist Remark About Tasmanian Delegation Dancing
  • Trump Inspired a Mass Shooting As a Result of His Racist Statements
  • Racism Linked to Teen Smoking – Science Daily
  • Etc, Etc, Etc…
  • Even a piece on NPR.org explaining how Dr. Seuss books are now considered racist.

Is The Race Card Effective?

A black professor raised in Jamaica who later moved to the U.S., wrote this opinion article published in Psychology Today. It does an excellent job of discussing the Race Card and its ineffectiveness for both persons of color and whites:

No one can win with the ‘race card’ and yet there it is: Ready to be ‘played’ and everyone in fear of what will happen when it does get played. A stand-off much colder and more volatile than the Cold War…

…So when I moved to Canada as a teenager and then to the USA as an adult, I was always reading race ‘wrong’. What to me seemed like someone’s innocent mistake was ‘racism’. It is not that I did not see obvious, blatant racism….. that was easy. But the stuff of which white people get nervous because they do not want to be called the ‘R’ word and the stuff of which black people said it was so obviously the R word. The word against which there is no defense because denial simply means that “you don’t get it” and makes one even more of a racist than when the word was first lobbed at them. And so this fear silences people – both black and white.

Ruth C. White Ph.D.

All of this is not to suggest that some real racism does not exist or that it is not abhorrent. However, today’s constant overuse of the race card, identity politics, and the culture of victim/blame is pulling our country apart. Moreover, no one can effectively tackle real problems in our society if everybody goes around fearing the “R word.”

What is Racism?

Racism definition – a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism

The definition of racism, and hence the Race Card has evolved over the last year or two. The Webster definition above indicates that racism is the general belief that race is the factor that determines who is superior/inferior, or who you like. More recent uses of the term suggest that any statement that reflects on a group of people in less than flattering terms or causes some to be offended, is racist per se.

The Card

(Oh god I know this is going to really tick people off…)
Under this definition, if one were to say, for example: While the police ought to be more respectful and judicious with their use of force, Black Lives Matter would be more successful in saving the lives of black males if it focused less on racism and more of Its efforts on convincing them to adopt a less confrontational manner when approached by law enforcement or complying with orders to “halt” vs. running away, etc.

If people are to be honest, they know that there is some truth to the above statement. Because anyone who would ever even think of suggesting such a thing would be labeled a blatant racist, the idea is never to be given a hint of credence. (BTW, like many of my white friends, I grew up believing that anyone who failed to obey a police officer’s order to “halt” would be shot. If the police pull over the average white person, the offender will likely open the window spewing apologies even before he or she knows what they have done.)

New Racism Definition

I recently listened with some interest to an NPR interview with author, Ibram X Kendi, In it he espoused that racism is represented in any discussion where someone says anything about a set of persons as a general whole. Examples would include: using the term “black culture”, or “asians often do this or that”, “migrants should do this”, etc.) . He has also suggested that so long as there are economic variances between persons of different ethnicities, we live in a racist nation. Finally, he makes a case for Slavery Reparations.

Interestingly, he indicated that President Obama used racist terms when he suggested that black fathers need to stay with their families; then in another speech where he said that some young black people had succumbed to A Legacy of Defeat needing to (in essence), strive to raise themselves up.

President Obama – Racist?

I know that I will be turning off some of our more conservative readers when I tell you that I greatly admire President Obama. He served our country (all of us) well. What has disappointed me about him is that he has not stood up like he did above more often, making more appeals to people of color to help themselves, abandon identity politics, and stop seeing themselves as victims. Mr. Obama could do every bit as much for his people (and the nation) in this way than he did as president. In an “R Word” world, it is virtually impossible for others to openly discuss important social issues.

We Must Find Solutions

The marginalized have many problems for which we must find solutions. One need only take a drive “across the tracks” to see it. Living conditions are extremely difficult. Moreover, crime is rampant, family ties are weak, law enforcement activities are ineffective and seen as unfair/disrespectful, education is not considered important, drugs are everywhere, and gangster culture has taken grip. Garnering the financial resources needed to “rise up” is tough, and even the yearning to do so is impaired by needs of the moment.

Yes, some of those problems have been greatly exacerbated by past (and even current) racism, however labeling people and the politics of victim/blame is disempowering and is to turn a blind eye to much of what can be done. Living life as part of A Legacy of Defeat is not going to do much for people of color. The nation can make (and many would argue, has made) enormous efforts to change the economic and social prospects of the marginalized, however real change will only come when people are empowered from within. Using the race card and labeling people as racists who look to focus on what people can do for themselves or at cause and effect is counter productive.

The Race Card In Politics and The Media

It seems that everyone is pulling out the race card as a part of reporting or campaigning. Everything is viewed through that lens. Moreover, as discussed in a NPR Op Ed highlighted in an earlier post on Political Absurdity, journalists now regularly refer to people as racists as a statement of fact, vs. as a matter of opinion, even in regular “news” articles.

Trump falls victim to this more than anyone (deservedly or not). Look at any news article (not just op eds anymore) and you will almost assuredly see what I mean. Maybe Trump is a racist, however the way the card is being tossed around in the media is not consistent with the Webster definition above.

Examples…

Trump has learned the trick too, recently pulling out the race card on Elijah Cummings, a black congressman from Maryland.

One of the biggest users of the card and identity politics is Black Lives Matter, which suggests that most every police involved shooting of a black man is racially motivated. The movement’s accusations seem undeterred by the specific circumstances of the shooting, or by the terrifying conditions that policemen work under in the field, especially in dangerous neighborhoods.

Check out this video:

Terrified Policemen at Shooting Scene
(Warning Graphic and May Be Disturbing)
(Sound Starts About 15 Seconds In)

What is most interesting about the video is that it communicates the real terror police officers face in such situations. Perhaps as interesting is the complete unwillingness of the bystanders to move away as ordered.

Police Bias and The Race Card

Undoubtedly our left leaning friends would rush to point out that blacks suffer the consequences of over-policing in their communities and racial biases amongst law enforcement personnel. Maybe – however two studies might lead readers to reach alternate conclusions related to any such bias and what should be done about it.

The first is described in this 2019 article in The Economist wherein researchers found that, “white police officers were no more likely to shoot minority citizens than non-white officers.”

A second is outlined in a book published by James Forman, Jr. entitled Locking Up Our Own. The book documents how the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers.

Neither of these two studies suggests that whites and non-whites are treated the same by law enforcement. Still, they each point to other factors that impact the statistics and possible solutions. That said, the Race Card has stifled most all reasonable discourse related to law enforcement and mass incarceration other than that promulgated by the left.

#METOO

#Me Too is another form of pulling the race card, except that it involves gender vs. skin color. Women do deserve to be allowed to work in environments where they feel safe. Still, pulling out the #Me Too moniker can act as a free pass around due process and other civil liberties, virtually assuring the end to a person’s path forward if so accused.

Identity Politics Is Tearing Us Apart

Perhaps worse than all of the above is what this situation is doing to our nation. The Democrats and the media are sooo anxious to demonstrate that President Trump is dividing the nation. Maybe he is, however as was pointed out in this Wall Street Journal Op Ed, Trump is not the worst offender. See link in our post from this earlier this month).

Playing The Card Is Not Working

Does the Democratic party and the media really think that they are building opposition to Trump or doing anything to help cure racism by constantly pulling out the race card? Sorry guys, but everyone on that side is already on the boat! The rest of us are just plain disgusted. In fact I would go so far as to say that the race card has done more to stoke the fires of racism in this country over the last two years than the KKK over the last twenty.

I am begging you, stop, please. Wake up! The more you do it, the more damage is done. I swear I would prostrate myself in front of Rachel Maddow herself if it would make any difference!

I submit, as I did in our initial Political Absurdity post, Donald Trump and his election is a product of the left. If the left and the media want to see him re-elected they only need to continue on the path of calling everyone who disagrees with them or does not communicate in politically correct terms a racist.

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AOL Counterpoint

By Political Absurdity Counter -Person – Tater, Antonia Ottawa Litigious
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Chris you stupid white male identifying racist bigot! We almost feel sorry for you you’re so ignorant.

Trump Is Obviously A Racist and IS The One Dividing Us

You people have finally gotten what you wanted. (In point of fact, being a Republican is racist in and of itself.) It wasn’t enough to have the other Republicans in office, who for the most part kept their racist tendencies undercover, you put an outright admitted and flagrant card carrying KKK Nazi in the White House.

This country has a long history of enslaving people of color, first in a literal terms and now through economics, suppression of opportunity and police brutality.

Police Brutality and Criminal “Justice”

Come on, did you even look at the video you posted? Did you see the he/she/they person of color laying on the ground? Why were the police still shooting at them? Why are police persons given bullet proof vests and not drug dealers? Did you ever think about that??

Turn your attention to this Op Ed from the Washington Post dispelling your silly theories/excuses.

Furthermore, why would Black Lives Matter waste Its breath telling young male identifiers to obey laws enacted by bigots for the express purpose of keeping persons of color down? Look at what happens to humans of color who are ultimately arrested. They are imprisoned at a tremendously higher rate than white people and even put to death at an outrageous ratio in comparison, especially if the “victim” was white!

Reparations

Reparation Payments are the only way to cure what is dividing us and to dig this country, commonly known as the united states, out of the hole that it has dug on the backs of Persons of Color (as well as other Minorities, including Latin Immigrants, Native Americans, and Gays). If the trillions of dollars needed to do so brings down a few greedy corporations and fat rich white people, so be it and so it should be. What is right is right!

No One Is “Playing” The Race Card

People are talking about racism because it is everywhere. Naturally you and your white friends want it stopped because you are the racists!

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The Psychology of Global Warming

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“It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.”

― Malcolm Forbes

I’m Conflicted

Let me start by stating that I am conflicted when it comes to Global Warming, however if forced to decide I would lean toward believing it’s real and probably even that it is to some degree exacerbated as a result of human activity and greenhouse gas emissions. Still, I have lingering doubts. What really interests me though is the way in which the theory has been worked into the Democratic doctrine and taken on an almost religious overtone.

Note, this essay is entitled, The Psychology of Global Warming, not The Science of Global Warming. I will delve into some of the science tangentially for background purposes, but that will not be its focus.

It is hard not to favor a reduction in the use of fossil fuel, if for nothing else than to eliminate our dependence on Middle Eastern oil. However when it comes to taking draconian steps to solve for a problem that we don’t yet fully understand, things get a little fuzzy,,,

What is readily apparent is that the scientific community and most especially not the press, can be fully relied upon to tell us The Whole Truth.

Why?

Global Warming, or Climate Change, as we now refer to it, is the most convenient concept to ever be advanced by the environmental movement and political left. Think about it, what other phenomenon could better promote anti-development, anti-corporation and anti- growth, as well as greater regulation, a reason to tax the rich, launch a general attack on capitalism, and other causes espoused by the left? It’s perfect!

Climate Change has become a “call to arms” for the Democratic Party. To question the veracity of the party line is like making a remark considered racist in nature. Nothing said afterward is worthy of consideration. It’s Politically correct!

Al Gore

To give credit where credit is due, we should probably start with Al Gore’s famous writing and movie, An Inconvenient Truth, as it was this that really advanced the theory to the forefront of everyday thinking.

While credence is still given to the general principles outlined in the work, even environmental scientists are a bit embarrassed by some outrageously flawed claims made.

Perhaps the most famous of these might be the ah-ha moment when he projected a 30-year old photo of Mt Kilimanjaro covered in snow and then other more recent photos with almost no snow cover at all, claiming that, The Snows Of Kilimanjaro would be completely gone within a decade of the book’s 1996 writing.

2018 Photo of Kilimanjaro, Snow Still There…

The Compeditive Enterprise Institute published this 1996 article detailing some other issues that many skeptics raise about the work.

Another group known as, Friends of Science, provides additional pushback and information on generally accepted Global Warming theory. Their website links to some good data on the subject supporting the group’s contention that the Sun is the main direct and indirect driver of climate change.

Can The Scientific Community Be Trusted?

Why do I say that we cannot fully trust the scientific community to tell me the truth about Global Warming? Imagine the uproar that would commence at most major universities if a professor made a credible argument that the phenomenon was not man made. It might be deemed worse than publishing a study concluding that males are generally more disposed to excel in mathematics than females, Islamics are more likely to genitally mutilate women than Methodists, or other observations that one would not even dare to speculate about.

Any scientist who proposed a study starting with the hypothesis that Global Warming is anything other than a product of man’s doing would be met with considerable headwind to say the least. He might never be awarded a research grant again. For this reason almost every study that you read about in the field concerns something like, how quickly some area is warming, how warming is impacting certain grasses, starving polar bears, melting polar icecaps, etc. vs. the theory surrounding man’s causative impacts on Global Warming in general.

A Brief Examination of The Facts

So dare we pause to think about the veracity of the theory for even a minute or two here?

First, it wouldn’t be the first time that scientists have been wrong about something like this. Remember the 1970s? At the time 2 theories were being generally espoused:

1). The world was moving toward a second ice age. Yes, a second Ice Age.

2). Oil production was peaking and we would very soon start running out of oil, which would quickly result in a near collapse of modern society as we knew it.

President Carter was so alarmed that he issued an emergency address on television wherein he warned of a pending national catastrophe, one of the worst crises this nation had ever faced. (Does this sound at all familiar?). A few years later a New York Times headline proclaimed that there was an oil glut.

President Carter On TV Discussing The Looming Energy Crisis

Secondly, evidence can be seen all around us that this is not the first time that the world’s temperature has cooled or warmed, dramatically.

Remember the dinosaurs?

A few years ago I was hiking in the Sierra Mountains with a renowned San Diego PHD and physicist and asked him what he thought about Global Warming theory. His response, “Chris, look up there at that valley, you know what created it? A giant glacier,” he quickly replied, answering his own question before before I could say something stupid. “Where is that glacier now? It melted thousands of years ago.

“Well what about models predicting a huge pickup in the speed of the warming,” I asked?

“I spent most of my professional career developing computer models at SAIC for a living. I can tell you that the bigger the number of variables in a model, the less dependable the output. The number of variables impacting global temperature (many of which we don’t really have an understanding of to start with), are almost infinite.”

Finally he pointed out that the time that we have been actively measuring global temperature (roughly since the 1930s) is very brief in geologic terms, and that it is impossible to develop an accurate trend line over such a short period of time.

General Skepticism

Could it possibly be that changes in global temperatures are more a result of ongoing natural phenomena than manmade air particulates and CO2 emissions? Moreover, might we being lead to believe that we know more than we really do, or that the problem is more urgent than it really is?

I really just don’t know. It is clearly a complex question. I do feel like one can be certain that most of the scientific community is convinced that there is a problem and that we need to do something about it. At the same time, there are some credible sounding sources who disagree.

Perhaps one of the most intriguing topics of disagreement has to do with tropospheric temperature readings. There are many who point out that the rate of temperature increase has been flattening over the last decade, or at least not keeping up with what modelers were projecting. Some even argue that global temperatures have actually cooled. Moreover, there are some suspicious sounding arguments being foisted. They explain that temperature graphs showing that the rate of temperature increase is flattening can be demonstrated to be false after the application of certain complex “adjustments” and everything is back on track with expectations…

Ok, off of the science, and back to the phycology:

Brilliant Marketing

Now your average run of the mill democrat is probably not staying up late nights whipping up ways to market the party’s agenda, but let’s not be so innocent as to believe that party leaders aren’t.

As a businessman I am always at wonder about the absolute brilliance of the shift in vernacular used to talk about Global Warming in the press and environmental movement a few years ago, when seemingly all of the sudden everybody started talking about Climate Change vs Global Warming.

The term Global Warming fit beautifully with the especially warm 1997/98 El Niño years in North America. However, when cooler weather started to move into the area, the term Global Warming became less self evident and lost much of its natural cache. With this change in wording it became possible to wrap almost any and every weather or other event or occurrence of any kind in with the problem.

(Yes, I know Global Warming causes Climate Change and that they are two different things.)

Solving The Problem

But is this really such a difficult issue to solve for? Can’t we just raise taxes on rich guys and corporations? Maybe require that fat CEOs and rich dudes stop flying around in private jets (unless of course they are in the entertainment or tech business)?

Is Technology The Answer? Check out presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s proposal: Giant Space Mirrors.

Unfortunately, reducing carbon emissions to the extent that it will make any real difference according to the “experts” and news media, could be extremely disruptive. Presidential candidate Jay Inslee has outlined a detailed plan that would propose to end all greenhouse gas emissions in the US within 10 years, ban US energy exports, do away with fracking and result in the expenditure of about $9 trillion over the same period.

According to VOX, the plan is similar to the Green New Deal introduced to congress earlier this year:

The public debate over the Green New Deal has taken on a surreal quality.

The non-binding resolution introduced to Congress last month, meant to address the dual crises of climate change and growing inequality, is just 14 pages long. It only takes a minute to read it. Yet the debate has been dominated by phantasms and lurid projections, all sorts of things imagined to be in the GND, or imagined to be prohibited by it (e.g. cars and airplanes). The reality of what’s on those pages has made only glancing appearances.

One article published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute outlines estimates that the deal could cost each family in certain states as much as $70,000 the first year it was implemented. Combine this with the costs associated with slavery reparations, free college tuition and Medicare for all, and you start spending some real money!

Many, if not all of the serious democratic presidential contenders are now jumping on the band wagon, Although last Tuesdays’s debate did uncover some disagreement about the way that the progressives are working to combine green and social justice policies on race as well as efforts to strengthen unions into the mix.

Needless to say, democratic taboos like clean natural gas, oil production from shale here in the US and nuclear energy are not a part of the plan.

A big question related to solving for Climate Change is, What we here in the US can really do about it? According to a 2018 article published in Forbes, US CO2 emissions peaked in 2005 and have gone down every year since:

The BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2018 reports on emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. It has some surprising facts.

Over the past decade, China has led the way in global CO2 emissions.

Global CO2 emissions continue to rise, reaching 33.4 Billion tons last year. Yet, many will be startled to learn that America easily leads the world in reducing CO2 output. Our reduction of 794 million tons over the past decade is a 1.4% annual rate of decrease. The Shale Revolution has certainly helped, although U.S. CO2 emissions peaked in 2005, long before Shale started to have its positive impact. Improved energy efficiency is one reason. More recently, cheap natural gas, combined with regulatory constraints on coal-burning utilities, have favorably altered the mix of hydrocarbons burned to produce electricity.

The left has drummed up much ado over the US withdraw from the Paris Accords, but fails to mention that few countries have actually lived up to their obligations. According to Forbes:

The 2015 Paris Climate Accord represents the world’s desire to combat climate change through reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. withdrew from it last year. The Climate Action Network, an EU-sponsored NGO, finds that only five EU members are even halfway on track to meeting their obligations under the Paris accord. Some of the most vocal Paris supporters have been the biggest laggards.

For example, Germany has famously managed to be a leader in renewables while failing to lead in emission reductions. Heavy dependence on solar and wind requires base-load electricity generation for when it’s not sunny or windy. In Germany, that’s primarily coal (see It’s Not Easy Being Green). As an unfortunate consequence, Germany plans to increase its reliance on Russian natural gas via the Nord Stream 2 project.

Big money is behind the environmental movement, It has a major connection to Democratic politics and the 2020 elections. A psychology surrounding Climate Change has taken deep root in the American physic that will not only impact an election but also how we talk about, study and solve for it.

Perhaps most disturbing is the left’s refusal to explore the benefits that can be had by taking advantage of America’s extensive supply of clean burning natural gas and nuclear energy technologies. The desire to politicalize and wrap Climate Change together with other Democratic agenda items like social reforms, wealth redistribution, identity politics, etc will no doubt run counter to efforts to implement timely and effective solutions to begin with.

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Counter Com-Person-Tary By Antonia Ottawa Litigious (AOL)

About AOL

Absurd is right! It makes us want to go down to a street with parked cars somewhere near the sea and sob uncontrollably to hear this kind of horse excretion.

Let’s go through this point by point.

This Is No Debate

Climate Change and the havoc unleashed upon the earth by greedy corporations is a fact, not a debate. To debate it is like debating air! We need to be focusing our attention on how it is impacting us, the world, and vulnerable populations, instead of engaging in hyperbole. We mean, have you been outside in the sweltering heat during the summer, or seen how many hurricanes we’re having now days? It is obvious!

Climate Change is inconvenient to everyone, left and right. Yes, I still drive my Mercedez, but I have purchased a Prius for my domestic sanitation consultant. We will probably get a Tesla for ourselves as soon as they start making them in the colors we want.

Al Gore is a genius. No one would be even questioning them (Gore) had the Bushes not rigged the 2000 election and Gore had been inaugurated president! Why are people so concerned about being factually right? This is a moral issue!

The Literature

Read the literature. The quotes you cite are from conservative “experts”, funded by big oil companies. Check out information available from neutral sources like The Sierra Club and Green Peace. Or this NASA Report outlining the causes of Global Warming.

Scientists are always right. They work at universities for god’s sake, and universities are open to ALL ideas, unless they come from the very far right or are racist in nature.

The area commonly referred to as the United States produces more CO2 emissions per capita than any other nation. Its obsession with red meat results in the unsightly appearance of its white males and a huge production of methane gases. Humans don’t need cows, except in India.

Quit Distracting Us

What the heck do women and mathematics have to do with this? Women have superior intellects to those identifying as males! It’s only because females have been suppressed and continuously raped by male identifiers that this could ever have been called into question. Geez!

This utterance about genital mutation,.. Republicans have got to stop judging humans in other countries. They have their reasons for what they do and humans occupying the area commonly referred to as the US cannot possibly understand their traditions and beliefs.

Of course people thought that the world was in for another ice age in the 1970s. Ronald Regan was going to become president and US diplomats were occupying parts of Iran at the time!

Valleys and glaciers in the Sierras? Humans shouldn’t be up there anyways. Just a bunch of intolerant Boy Scouts hiking around.

Money Is No Object

Yes, it is going to be expensive to solve this issue and all of the other problems that Republicans have caused, but we are talking about the end of the world here! Do we ask how much it is going to cost before we do anything? Did anyone ask how much it was going to cost to lower taxes on the rich or greedy corporations before Trump did it?

Your reference to combined spending with slavery reparations is just blatant racism. We are not even going to discuss it!

Tangencial Opportunities

Every problem brings an opportunity. We can dramatically increase taxes on the rich and use the money to create new high paying green jobs intelligently placed to solve social and racial injustice and to give labor unions back the control over industry that they deserve.

We are not mentally incompetent and can see right through your questioning and challenges related to AOCs Green New Deal. Why do Republicans have to question everything? Stop thinking and get out of this country if you don’t like it!

AOL

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Interview with Antonia Ottawa Litigious (“AOL”)

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I want to be the first to welcome Antonia Ottawa Litigious (AOL) to the Political Absurdity (PA) team.  AOL will serve as a commentator representing alternative viewpoints.  She brings some excellent credentials to the team.  We understand that she graduated with a doctorate in political science from UC Berkeley.

PA:       Dr. Litigious welcome!

AOL:    Antonia please, but thank you.  Based on reading your post entitled, About Political Absurdity, you are going to need some real help!

PA:       So, Antonia, please tell our readers more about your background.

AOL:    Sure.  As you mentioned, we attended UC Berkeley working toward a PhD in Political Science with a special emphasis on Climate Change Policies.  We completed our undergraduate degree at Delay University in Corn Husk, Iowa, were we spent 9 years studying History, specializing in TV Programing.

PA:       Wow, so you bring some great educational background to the table.

AOL:    Clearly, we are not mentally challenged or anything!

PA:       Tell us about what you have been doing since college.

AOL:    We’ve been economically inactive over that period.

PA:       Well can you tell us how your personal experiences have helped to prepare you for this job as a commentator?

AOL:    First of all, we must insist that you refer to us as a compersontator!  Anyway, we bring a lot of alternative life experiences to the table, including life starting as physically male in appearance and currently identifying as female in transition.

PA:       Tell us about your views on American politics.

AOL:    Certain human persons have been tremendously underserved and underrepresented in the area commonly referred to as America, particularly those living in economically disadvantaged areas.  The police have brutalized them, even profiling those behaviorally challenged individuals engaged in wealth redistribution negatively.  The other night we saw a news story about a person of color identifying as male, attacking only with a hatchet and knife, who was shot by a police person.

Naturally, we absolutely want to revisit recently eaten foods when-ever we hear anything out of the Trump regime.  That racist white misogynistic male identifier… . What sort of basket of deplorables would vote for that guy? We mean, some sort of idiots praying to “Jesus“, how stupid!

Finally, this country has got to start having some real respect for the beliefs and traditions of humans in other nations. For some Islamophobic reason we keep trying to stop “terrorism”. Don’t these Humans have the basic right to express themselves and their beliefs?

PA:       What do you think of the of the Democratic party’s new socialist direction?  I assume that you identify with the left and are in favor of the proposals calling for the borders be opened, all student debt be forgiven, free health care, and generous income credits?

AOL:    Of course, what are we, fascists?

PA:       Do you think that you will be ok with people who disagree with and question some of your left leaning opinions?

AOL:    Of course…we are completely open to all points of view! We simply want that as a starting point there be an acknowledgement that policies and points of view held by those within, or in any way affiliated with the Republican Party are ignorant and represent an existential threat to those humans that are really entitled to express themselves. We certainly don’t want to give these types of stupid opinions credence in any way. It really is amazing that there has been no legislation to require some sort of basic intelligence test for registered Republicans before they enter the polling places.

PA:       Do you live in the ghetto so that you can mix, communicate with and assist the less fortunate?

AOL:    No, it’s way too dirty down there.  We live in Beverly Hills where we can mix with persons of our own social and educational standing.

PA:       Wow, that must be expensive, how do you afford it?

AOL:    Our familial unit is in the petroleum business and provides us with the economic support that we deserve.

Stay with us for more from AOL and her takes on our posts here at PoliticalAbsurdity.  We look forward to hearing from her and most especially from you!  Tell us what you think, like, don’t like, how we’ve got it right or wrong, or why we should be banned from the internet!

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