The rabble-rousers are now talking about ‘reparations’. They do this to win over a shallow and gullible block of voters. Folk that believe they are owed reparations do so because the concept reinforces their belief that the reason they cannot succeed in America is do to either past harms or current prejudices. It’s not their fault. They are victims. In either case, whomever promises them they will get to the reparations question plays on their greatest weakness; inability to accept personal responsibility for their own lives. There are only three possible paths that the reparations issue takes. Two are untenable, and the third never solves the problem and leaves it as an issue that can be resurrected every two years to buy the votes of blacks. The two unacceptable outcomes are:
- Those weak minded fools that believe they are actually owed reparations will be further alienated, less likely to participate in, our great society when the ‘big payout’ fails to materialize.
- Those tax paying citizens that are to be placed on the hook for something they had no part in will revolt if such a law were passed or their tax dollars were expended that way.
It’s a terrible thing that these folk are doing to the weak minded and gullible. The only redeeming aspect of this mischief is that those that are being fooled have taken comfort that their plight is fault of whitey. That will work just fine for them but work terribly for a country that prior to 2008 had gotten well past the race issue.