U.S. Looking to the Republicans, Pt. 1

I'm a self-confessed political junkie. I admit it, and I need my fix of political news daily. No point in voting if you're totally clueless, or if your pastor or some moonbat in the polling place is going to tell you for whom you should pull the lever. I read, I research, I listen; then I decide.

Back in the nineties, I spent a few years well watching C-SPAN. I'd rush in from work or class, turn the tv on, and listen C-SPAN for most of the night. (I was often too busy to watch tv.) It was instructive. After several months listening to C-SPAN, I knew that I could not pull the voting booth lever for a Democrat; after several years of C-SPAN, I knew that nobody could pay me to vote Democrat.

Why?

First and foremost, I'm a thinking person; appeals to emotion don't move me much, if at all. I grew up at a time when political discussion was rife in Trinidad. Parliamentary debates were big hits on Rediffusion. A fond memory I have is of a voice saying, "Mr. Speaker, sir...." Whose voice, I don't know cuz I was really too young to remember details or content. Anyway, the point is that substantial issues were discussed around the kitchen table and in the back-yard. My grandparents, parents, relatives, talked politics a lot. Nobody says their analysis was perfect or sophisticated; the point is they discussed ideas. So, when I watched C-SPAIN and saw Democrats arguing ad hominem, failing to address substantial issues, demagoguing serious issues with such blatant falsehoods that only a partisan or a moonbat would swallow what they said as gospel, they turned me off. Arguments that were contrary to common sense and reason convinced me that the Democrats were not a party that I or anybody else should take seriously. Nobody could be expected to believe that another political party were in favor of dirty air, dirty water, starving children and the elderly. We all have to breathe the same air and drink the same water. There isn't a water supply for Republicans and one for Democrats. Both Republicans and Democrats have children, parents, etc. Simple common sense dictated that the Democrats should've been booed off the stage.

So, I listened to the Republicans who presented honest to goodness arguments. They had a thesis; they provided a development of that thesis; they provided evidentiary matter in support of that thesis. I listened to Newt Gingrich speak; then I went and researched. That's the thing; what one says must be verifiable. I didn't think that Republicans were perfect, but I thought that here was a party that considered that the average person out there had a mind, was capable of thought, and should be appealed to on the basis of reason. Therefore, the Republicans presented reasonable arguments that could be examined for verification. They put themselves on the political line. Thus, when I took the oath of citizenship, I registered as a Republican.

I've long thought, since I returned to the U.S. in 1990, that there is not much future for blacks with the Democrats. What has black support of Democrats gained? Not much, in my opinion. It didn't gain the Civil Rights Act of 1964, for Republicans were the ones in favor of that. What has been gained is school systems that produce the next generation of janitors, prisoners, welfare recipients, affirmative action dependents and such like. In other words, in America, black support of Democrats has brought forth a new plantation. Ironically, the many blacks elected as representatives to the House have become some of the harshest slave masters as they resist every effort to change the status quo. No. No school vouchers. No. No improved schools. No. No competition in education so that black kids can confidently rely on their own intellects rather than on the pyschobabble pablum of self-esteem.

To be continued later.