{"id":55274,"date":"2014-05-25T11:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T19:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55274"},"modified":"2014-05-25T11:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T19:53:33","slug":"the-almost-exclusively-white-phenomenon-of-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55274","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Almost Exclusively White Phenomenon&#8217; of Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/americanthinker.com\/2014\/05\/the_almost_exclusively_white_phenomenon_of_conservatism_.html\">From American Thinker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Every conservative should consider the profound and possibly awful observation made by the New York Times\u2019 Josh Barro:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rush to stand with Mr. Bundy against the Bureau of Land Management is the latest incarnation of conservative antigovernment messaging. And nonwhites are not interested, because a gut-level aversion to the government is almost exclusively a white phenomenon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If there were validity to Barro\u2019s observation, then any anti-government political philosophy (that wished to survive) would seek to reduce immigration.<\/p>\n<p>After all, America is rapidly importing economically poor, poorly educated, low-skilled immigrants.  Those immigrants generate racial inequalities, and inequality is then used to shame and guilt the majority.  This is the neurotic cycle I call \u201cAmerica\u2019s never-ending shame.\u201d  A constant influx of the \u201cdisadvantaged\u201d guarantees a racialized political system and the growth of a Leviathan welfare state.<\/p>\n<p>How can we verify that \u201ca gut-level aversion to the government is almost exclusively a white phenomenon\u201d?  For starters, we could look to numerous polls and opinion surveys, which are a better indication of Latino opinion that any self-serving GOP talking points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From American Thinker: Every conservative should consider the profound and possibly awful observation made by the New York Times\u2019 Josh Barro: &#8220;The rush to stand with Mr. Bundy against the Bureau of Land Management is the latest incarnation of conservative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whites"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55275,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55274\/revisions\/55275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}