Last Gasp of the White Male Power Structure

Peter Beinert - would that be the same shit-fer-brains who spent 2002-2009 sucking Smirky/Darth's cock and declaring that the Democratic Party could only save itself by becoming republican? Oh, yes it is. Because now he's saying only re-embracing racist, misyogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic "values" can save the Democratic Party.

Digby takes him down.

The party of FDR and LBJ didn't have blacks in it and women had no power at all. Hispanics didn't even figure into it, much less gays. That's because it was a different world. And not incidentally, a much worse world for well over half the population.

Nonetheless, he evidently believes that the 60% of the party that is female, the members of the fastest growing demographic (Hispanics) and the 90+% of African Americans who vote Democratic are going to just allow the white male privilege people to turn back the clock in the name of the Big Tent. What nonsense. Today's balance of power calls for compromises on these issues to be borne by the straight, white, male privilege set in order to advance everyone's economic agenda, not the other way around.

The days of white male privilege are nearly over and those who want to recreate them are going to find themselves stymied in a party in which the majority are women, Hispanic, black or gay -- or often a combination of all of those. I can't imagine why anyone would even think of saying they shouldn't be. Economic issues and "cultural issues" (if you want to describe human rights in such a dry way) aren't mutually exclusive. Indeed, they are mutually dependent. The Party that gets that right will be the Party that can form a majority for a long time to come.

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