CNN:
TRENDING: Cain: Black community ‘brainwashed’ into voting for Dems
Washington (CNN) – The one African-American running for the GOP presidential nomination said Wednesday the black community was ‘brainwashed’ for traditionally siding with liberal politicians.
“African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view,” Godfather’s Pizza executive Herman Cain said on CNN’s “The Situation Room” in an interview airing Wednesday between 5-7 p.m. ET. “I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open minded, pure and simple.”
Brainwashing, huh, Herman?
Black voters have voted almost monolithically for Democrats in almost every national election since 1932. If that’s all a result of mere brainwashing, then the Democrat Party of the United States has the most effective propaganda machine in the history of the world. If they suddenly came back to life, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot couldn’t work up enough combined envy worthy of this Democrat “Brainwashing Machine” that would be truly worthy of its “prowess.”
Let me posit an alternate and perhaps somewhat crazy explanation, Mr. Cain: Black voters vote almost 100% Democrat almost 100% of the time because they’re relatively sane people, even if they’re not high IQ Einsteins, and they’re merely choosing what is for them the more beneficial of the two major parties. The Democrat Party has been for a long time, is currently, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, far better than the Republicans (even as hard as today’s Republicans try) at handing out tangible and intangible government goodies to blacks.
Oh, and by the way, I have a better chance of hanging the moon than your 9-9-9 plan has of actually becoming law, even though I like it in theory and most of the substance, though I think there still needs to be a capital gains tax and a stair-stepped one. If there was any hint of the 9-9-9 plan taking credible legs in Congress, the tax lawyers, CPAs and their buddies both in and out of government would launch a head-spinning lobbying putsch to kill it. There are too many people making too much money off the complicated and convoluted tax laws for them to be undone with one stroke of an ink pen. Better to salami slice the big bad system out of existence one piece at a time.
