Caucasian Red

People of Color, Deliver us from Evil

Jon Schwartz

If America consisted only of white people, there would be no democratic party and virtually every voting district in America would be Red. This all-white scenario has traveled some distance in my lifetime, from a fringe notion amongst the extreme, quiet racist voices to an increasingly popular utopian “make America great again” dream for many of our countrymen.

Indeed, if only white people lived in America, Donald Trump would’ve won in a landslide, likely not losing a single electoral college vote. Most every Senator, Congressman, Governor, and statehouse would be red. The Supreme Court would be on call to aid and abet every money grab that the White-only private sector might request. The country would sing a unified chorus of political homogeneity.

But it would no longer be America.

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, foodstamps, housing assistance, Pell grants, the Veterans Administration, the US post office, and virtually every government funded institution would be privatized. We’d have no EPA, FEC, FCC, IRA, or any other government entity to check the inevitable by-products of purely profit driven systems.

There would be no Centers for Disease Control or National Institutes of Health, just big pharma research labs in search of the next ED remedy or weight loss panacea. Gone would be free public education for our children; rich kids might attend “the Apple school” or “Tesla Academy;” “Jiffy Lube U” or “McDonalds A&M” for the middle class; a donated church basement and chalkboard for the poor. Our military would be mercenary, the tool of emperors and oligarchs, tailored for conquest and occupation. Gun laws would not exist, open carry the norm.

Does this MAGA paradise sound familiar?

Welcome to Russia, America.

Fortunately we are not all white. People of color live in America, which is excellent news if you’re a fan of the US Constitution. They are the levee protecting us from a red tidal wave.

Are you glad Roy Moore isn’t a US Senator? Thank black Alabama voters, 96% of whom voted for Doug Jones as opposed to 70% of white voters who cast their ballots for Moore, troubled more by a Democrat than a child molester.

The myth created by media repetition that white women deliver us from the right wing was repudiated in the last election. While women of color overwhelmingly rejected Trump, more white women voted for him than not, deciding a first ever female POTUS was less desirable than a self-described p***y grabber.

The divide is not gender. It’s not economic. It’s not rural vs. urban. What divides us most is race.

As a result, people of color are the only voting bloc in America that presents any hope of preserving the Constitution of our nation. Their vote continues to preserve the institutions and programs that have elevated our country from an audacious idea to history’s greatest, most benevolent (believe it or not) empire. They alone now hold back the morally gangrenous rot that has infiltrated the US from the Caucasian red tide currently addling responsible governance.

This may seem a harsh over-simplification. Race issues which highlight the non-white American voting bloc’s opposition to totalitarian impulses of this Caucasian red administration can be uncomfortable, but they are no less true. Consider the following anti-American facts from the Trump administration:

*More than half of Republicans favor suspending the 2020 election (let that one sink in!).

*The US under Trump is the only country out of the Paris Climate Treaty.

*The US under Trump took the unprecedented step of breaking our multinational non-nuclear treaty with Iran.

*The US under Trump seeks to dismantle NATO, a multinational democratic partnership that has preserved relative peace and prosperity in this world for the past 70 years during the nuclear era.

The last 18 months can’t be analyzed within a left vs right paradigm because the creation and support of the earth Trump is scorching was fully bipartisan. No previous administration would have survived such recklessness because it would have cast itself adrift from any bloc of support. But the times they are a changin’. Trump’s MAGA bloc is the only reason his presidency still exists. Trump’s GOP is now The Caucasian Red Party. They’d elect Putin in a heartbeat over any Democratic or old guard Republican candidate.

Without those who make us racially heterogeneous, the coalition comprised of the “Christian” right, NRA and the full spectrum of formerly extreme/currently mainstream elements of the “politically incorrect” universe would steamroll national US elections and render us unrecognizable.

How ironic that people of color, whose “blessings of liberty” promise has been historically shortchanged, are most responsible for preserving the US Constitution’s viability! Despite being denied the promise and protection of our founders’ vision, it is people of color whose voting record suggests a patriotism and constitutional ardor not found among the Caucasian red, who cuts with matricidal zeal at the tree of liberty that they planted and has blessed them with sumptuous shade and fruitful abundance for two and one half centuries.

The United States of America, through our Constitution, has acted as the Earth’s crust, imposing a hard layer of discipline and overarching values to keep the chaotic magma from exploding forth. But that crust is as thin and vulnerable as it’s ever been. The melting pot theory’s success requires the dominant white cultures’ embrace. It is startlingly, undeniably clear that MAGA voters have wholeheartedly rejected this concept. As the MAGA magma pressure bubbles and boils beneath, people of color, people of good faith, and the world waits atop a trembling crust in hopes of surviving the molten devastation of the dismal Caucasian red tide.