{"id":6908,"date":"2024-01-16T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2024-01-16T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:50:41","slug":"the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/the-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is Equal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve studied politics since I was four years old in 1960.&nbsp;&nbsp;Well, maybe studying might be too strong a word for that first decade, observing might make more sense.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, really, since 1968, still one of the most horrific years in American political history, I\u2019ve studied politics.&nbsp;&nbsp;America is a push-pull of political ideology, and it has been since President Kennedy was assassinated on the streets of Dallas.&nbsp;&nbsp;And it\u2019s not so much conservative versus liberal:&nbsp;&nbsp;it\u2019s been a battle of America\u2019s \u201cdestiny\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early 1960\u2019s, the Civil Rights movement challenged America to live up to it\u2019s mythology.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAll Men are created equal\u201d was Jefferson\u2019s founding phrase.&nbsp;&nbsp;He absolutely knew the personal and governmental contradiction evoked by that.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jefferson owned over a hundred slaves, and regardless of his personal \u201cideology\u201d was economically unable to change that status.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the Nation recognized slavery and racism as a structural doctrine.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAll Men are created equal\u201d was an aspiration, a \u201cdream\u201d that for the Founding Father\u2019s was some future generation\u2019s problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost two hundred years later, Martin Luther King and many others demanded of that Nation their right to the Dream.&nbsp;&nbsp;While the Kennedy Administration played around the edges, it took a racist President from Texas, Lyndon Johnson, to pass the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts that put statutory language to the Declaration\u2019s key phrase and the results of the Civil War a century before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Betrayal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Many white people saw Johnson as betraying their vision of the American dream.&nbsp;&nbsp;They saw America\u2019s destiny as a white majority Nation, the continuation of the Manifest Destiny brought over from the 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was that idea that drove the Native Americans to \u201cland jails\u201d called reservations, and propped up the Jim Crow Laws.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Wallace, the racist Democratic Governor of Alabama, embodied that tradition.&nbsp;&nbsp;He led a \u201crump\u201d party in the Presidential election of 1968, taking most of the old Confederacy with 46 electoral votes.&nbsp;&nbsp;At that time, the South wasn\u2019t ready to vote for a Republican, the Party of Lincoln.&nbsp;&nbsp;But they were willing to vote for a Democrat who spoke their segregationist, state\u2019s rights language.&nbsp;&nbsp;And that opened the door for the Republican Party.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nixon became President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 1972 Nixon consolidated his position in the South, beginning the Republican tradition of Southern electoral hegemony.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn\u2019t that Wallace\u2019s philosophy changed:&nbsp;&nbsp;it was simply subsumed by the Republicans; the Party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Rockefeller now the party of state\u2019s rights and the language of white superiority.&nbsp;&nbsp;Need an example?&nbsp;&nbsp;Google Willie Horton.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then little has changed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Gerald Ford, Nixon\u2019s successor, didn\u2019t embrace Nixon\u2019s change, and lost to a Southern Democrat and moderate Jimmy Carter.&nbsp;&nbsp;But Reagan did, and so did Bush of Maine (the father) and Bush of Texas (the son).&nbsp;&nbsp;In between was another southern candidate, Bill Clinton, assisted in his first election by a Texas billionaire who split the Republican vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2008<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>All of that changed in 2008.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One last political \u201cfact\u201d to keep in mind.&nbsp;&nbsp;Democrats have been a majority in this country since the 1930\u2019s.&nbsp;&nbsp;The power of Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s coalition, and his thirteen years in the Presidency, echoes down the generations.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn\u2019t about which party has more \u201cmembers\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;For sixty years there were always more Democrats than Republicans (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/interactives\/party-id-trend\/\">Pew<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The critical factor wasn\u2019t \u201cidentification\u201d, it was always about turnout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2008, the young Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, motivated Democrats to come to the polls in record numbers.&nbsp;&nbsp;He symbolically changed the landscape of American politics.&nbsp;&nbsp;A Black man as President, leader of the Nation, seemed to signify the arrival of Martin Luther King\u2019s Dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just as Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Civil Rights legislation triggered the backlash of George Wallace, Obama\u2019s election began the \u201cLast, Great Fight\u201d for America\u2019s destiny.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cLast, Great\u201d because a decade from now, America will no longer be a white majority nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Manifest Destiny dream of the 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century will meet its end at the ballot box, that is, unless supremacists can alter the structure of our laws to protect their power.&nbsp;&nbsp;And that\u2019s happening:&nbsp;&nbsp;voter suppression laws, extreme gerrymandered legislative districts, and the built in anti-democratic compromise of the electoral college might maintain their white power a little longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Imperfect Vessels<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And in the last two decades, a new wrinkle was added to American life:&nbsp;&nbsp;a \u201cbifurcated\u201d media.&nbsp;&nbsp;There no longer is a single \u201ctruth\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Just last night, 51% of Iowa Republicans believed that Donald Trump&nbsp;won&nbsp;the 2020 Presidential election (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/iowa-poll\/caucus\/2023\/08\/22\/most-iowa-likely-republican-caucusgoers-think-donald-trump-won-in-2020-election-iowa-poll-finds-gop\/70614742007\/\">Register<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Our \u201cpost-truth\u201d era allows the Trump \u201cmiracle\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A miracle; because a single scandal, much less ninety-one felony charges, would have ended any political career just twenty years ago.\u00a0\u00a0Look at Jonathan Edwards, leading early candidate for the Democratic candidacy in 2008.\u00a0\u00a0Even the possibility of charges against Hillary Clinton were enough to tilt the 2016 results.  But today, Donald Trump has made court appearances the core of his Presidential campaign.\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s made \u201cvictimhood\u201d an honor.\u00a0\u00a0In Christian terms, Trump is the \u201cimperfect vessel\u201d who is \u201csuffering\u201d for his fellow man (at least, fellow white men).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And \u201chis\u201d media backs his story.\u00a0\u00a0Even\u00a0<em>Fox News,<\/em> after losing over $700 million is legal damages for lying about the 2020 election, is \u201cback\u201d to supporting Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump is placed as the hero, supporting the \u201ccommon man\u201d (read, white man) against the rising tide of change.&nbsp;&nbsp;And he\u2019s done a remarkable job of staying in that position, even if it\u2019s mostly his attempt to stay out of jail.&nbsp;&nbsp;Certainly the Republicans of Iowa believe him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which leads us to the election of 2024.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some Democrats are struggling to \u201cget behind\u201d Joe Biden, another \u201cimperfect vessel\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;But this election is about something so much more important than the \u201cvessels\u201d; it\u2019s about what the American Dream should be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s going to be an election between two old white men.&nbsp;&nbsp;But it\u2019s really a choice echoing back to the founding of the United States in 1776.&nbsp;&nbsp;Are \u201call men (and women)\u201d really created equal?&nbsp;&nbsp;November will decide our destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Equal I\u2019ve studied politics since I was four years old in 1960.&nbsp;&nbsp;Well, maybe studying might be too strong a word for that first decade, observing might make more sense.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, really, since 1968, still one of the most horrific years in American political history, I\u2019ve studied politics.&nbsp;&nbsp;America is a push-pull of political ideology, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/the-dream\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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