More On Why The Elites Want A Chauvin Acquittal
No politician in American history owes more to African-American leadership and voters than Joe Biden. His flailing campaign was rescued from the respirator by South Carolina’s heavily black Democratic electorate. African Americans sustained his path through states such as Texas. Since taking office, Biden’s commitment to battling the ‘sting of systemic racism’ and encroaching ‘white supremacy’ has accompanied his early actions and seems to have shaped many of his appointments.
It's not hard to imagine that Biden, shallow, cynical, and impaired, will follow his worst instincts and allow his handlers to write him statements that will foster unrest if the verdict goes against the progressive narrative. The question is whether we'll have a repeat of Rodney King in 1992 or the 2020 riots. Kotkin thinks we will. i'm not sure. Kotkin says late in his essay:
This worry, given the past, is understandable, but legitimate concern over police abuse does not suggest minorities embrace the prevailing narrative. The vast majority of all races, noted a 2018 survey, reject the political correctness increasingly embraced by the billionaire class as well as corporate HR departments. Indeed, the most extreme people on racial issues are not Blacks and Hispanics but radicalised whites, whose Antifa shock troops well represent the lunatic fringe.
The woke may be winning in cyberspace and the corporate suite, but economic factors may prove more decisive in the long run. By 2032, minorities will constitute the majority of the American working class. They did better in terms of income under President Trump than previous administrations from both parties. This was one reason for the shocking move of Latin voters, devastated by the lockdowns, to Trump last year.
. . . Red Guard-like seminars may make money for the practitioners of redress but it is what my friend Sergio Munoz calls ‘the multiculturalism of the streets’ that will save us. The idea of America as a kind of apartheid regime seems surreal in a country where one in 10 babies born in the US has one white and one non-white parent and 12 per cent of all African Americans are now immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere. Interracial marriage has gone from three per cent in 1967 to roughly one in six now.
As I've been saying, the moral panic of 2020 has been based not just on a virus. The lockdowns were one symptom; the riots were another, and both come from a single cause, a basic insecurity about social change, which observers suggest is a factor in all moral panics. A big part of this particular change is a sense that the political alignment that began in the 1960s, when Lyndon Johnson is alleged to have remarked "I’ll have those [bleep] voting Democratic for 200 years", isn't likely to last anywhere near that long.The riots, and the election of Biden as a senile puppet of backstage progressives, are signs that the elites who thrived under the LBJ arrangement are losing their grip. We simply don,'t know how the Chauvin trial will come out, but I have a feeling the results won't be quite what anyone predicts. People are simply tired of 2020.
