Those poor naïve Republicans, they don’t have a clue

Those poor naïve Republicans, they don’t have a clue.

Going around the block a few times gives you an advantage here and there. On May 29^th I completed my 59th trip (if you count a year as one).

At the age of 19 I was flat broke and unemployed. Before I was 20 I loaded furniture on a crew where I was the only English speaking worker and next I washed cars all day for minimum wage. The public education system provided my formal education and now I teach in it part time. I’ve climbed the income ladder and mingled with wealthy people for the last thirty-five years. Like virtually every other American family in the nation, our family has more than its fair share of committed Democrats.

What about Republicans in the family? We have some of those too.

Reading people is one of my primary responsibilities. And one of the things you learn as you are climbing the job skill/income ladder in America is how people have been indoctrinated. By the time you wind up in a position where you are supervising people and managing an organization, you realize that not only is racism, sexism, and bigotry stupid…..it will damage your efforts to improve your life and wind up harming you. An overwhelming majority of people in positions of responsibility, in competitive organizations (serving customers) know this, and know it well. The vast majority of people I know, who have the authority to hire and fire, are extremely objective about evaluating people. And they are very leery of group identities. They see people as individuals and form opinions about the honesty and integrity of people based on merit and facts. They willingly employ women, minorities, gays, etc. without hesitation based on their job skills and their trustworthiness because it is in the own interest to do so.

American popular culture has other ideas. The indoctrination starts early in the public schools. Children are taught to believe that all non-whites are “disadvantaged” and all whites enjoy “privilege.” They are taught to believe just the opposite of what I have found to be true about those who make hiring decisions. Of course this narrative is the big lie. But it is told over and over in the schools, in the media, on television programs, and in the movies. It is pervasive and perverse.

When you engage people and listen carefully for motivations you begin to gain a clearer understanding of why those poor naïve Republicans don’t have a clue. Why do I level the charge that the poor naïve Republicans don’t have a clue? It is not because they do not know about the big lie. Virtually all Republicans realize full well all of the things I have laid claim to in the preceding paragraphs. So why do I say are they clueless? It is because by and large they STILL have not quite figured out what to do about the big lie.

So what should they do?

What do you do when you find yourself living in a country being exploited by race pimps like the Obamas and Clintons with an incredible assist from education indoctrination, pop culture, the news media, and the entertainment industry? How can you overcome a situation where the majority of Americans, who do not have the authority to make hiring decisions, believe those who do harbor deep feelings of bigotry? How do you possibly win elections in a situation where people have been trained to not bother to look beyond race and gender. What do you do when the resources behind this force of mass deception can be valued in the trillions of dollars range?

The answer is so simple. If you want leaders who embrace your values to WIN, then you nominate candidates in the kinds of “wrappers” that the masses have been trained to prefer.

Republicans already have these kinds of winning candidates. And the Democrats, who understand the strengths and weaknesses of race pimping more than Republicans, are terrified of them. GOP minority candidates like Marco Rubio make Democrat strategist's knees wobble. Just look at the opposition research-directed hit job on Marco Rubio in the New York Times last week. The Clinton campaign wing, operating at the Times is absolutely petrified by a scenario where Marco Rubio faces off with the wicked witch of the west in 2016.

Will those in the core base of the GOP who vote in primaries ever see the light and stop being poor naïve victims of race pimping? Who knows?