This is not about racism. This is about race; the electoral race, the ideological race, the winner-take-all race.
Don't ever forget that the one you hate the most may feel the exact same way in reverse for the exact same deeper reasons.
Put two dogs in a pen and pressure them, see what happens. Of course the other side is that dog. But it means the dog fight we find ourselves in is the real issue. We should not be in a dog fight to begin with.
How is it possible that the situation is so out of hand? History, you're right about that, plus the lack of a USA 2.0 upgrade when we were all ready for it (decades ago).
We are forced to fight each other in an 18th century box ring that nobody wants to be in anymore.
But what is worse than an 18th century box ring? A much stronger opponent in an 18th century box ring.
The tides they are changing in the US, today, and what you call the Republican Party right now is nothing but the realization that the tide is turning and that the dominant feature of the 18th century box ring is going to be handed over to the other side.
You can sit is out, you and yours, and be the future dominant force. But you will end up being what they are now and what you hate right now.
There is a way out. We can get our own USA 2.0 upgrade today. It's actually simple, but the more the bull focuses on the red flag, the less it will notice the exit door.
It's a small door. You may not see it when I point it out.
At the local level, we can all start voting for candidates that want voting reform. It is as simple as that and it can be done in a single election. You may scratch your head and may not see why it matters to all things in the world.
Stop voting for the Machine candidates, pick the one that says we want proportional voting in our city, in our county, and you created a revolution. It is as simple as that.
Minorities today are discriminated in the district voting system because minorities do not pick the representative. The dominant group picks the representative.
In proportional voting, the individual voter is empowered and the group has nothing to say about what the individual picks. It really fully and truly changes the outcomes.
In 1996, New Zealand said goodbye to its pure winner-take-all system and embraced proportional voting (partially). The number of females jumped in one election from 21/100 to 37/120, a jump of almost 50% (from 21% of all seats to 30.8% of all seats). One single election caused a sea change all had been waiting for. Today, New Zealand has 40% of its representative be women.
When San Francisco went back from at-large voting to district voting, the 5 females and 6 males on the board changed to 1 female and 10 males overnight (the Machine -shocked- pulled its ordinary levers since, so you won't see this anymore today).
In the US, one in eight Americans is of African descent. There should be between ten and fifteen African American Senators. They are not there, because the system is winner-take-all and not proportional.
The Losing Party is always the greatest group in our system.
https://medium.com/the-national-discussion/and-the-winner-is-the-losing-party-c683c1d739e5
It is so easy to change it. The enemy across the field will fall apart, and the anger within ourselves will slowly subside as well; we just need a system in which we are equal voters.
Local level: proportional voting.
State level: three-to-five party system.
Federal level: it will fall in place by itself.
The good part about the local level is that it is a very safe place to start learning how the individual form of democracy works. We can build it up from there. Plus, the local level is where today we have a one-party system; the worst form of democracy. All seats on board or council are all of the same political color. All are Blue, but no one calls them Blue. All are Red, but no one calls them Red. What a surprise.
Vote for candidates that promote voter reform next time.
