In speeches at Stanford University in the mid-1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. coined the term “two Americas.” He described the then starkly different lives and opportunities of social classes in America.
Like many cool things, that term was stolen from an African-American and co-opted by white liberal Democrats. It was used as divisive political rhetoric. But the gaslighting of middle America by opportunist politicians has caused the meaning of the term to change. It no longer means Republican America bad, Democrat America good.
Democrats have become a party that pushes victimization, providing perpetual excuses and anger in those who do not want to work for the American Dream. Entitlement, exemplified by people who are slow to go back to work after the government sent out all that “sit-at-home money,” is now justified. As small business owners cannot staff their businesses and find themselves dependent on a flawed supply chain, America sinks deeper into socialism. Oddly, socialist policies cause those very maladies that Democrats blame on capitalism.
Today’s Democrats are right. There are “two Americas”: one that works and pays taxes and one that doesn’t. One that wants to protect our Southern border from illegal crossers and one that wants to register them as reliably dependent Democratic voters. There are “two Americas” in Democrat minds and, apparently, one is Mexico.
It is the electoral philosophy of such voters that put one-party Democrat rule into power and created Gary, Indiana; Detroit; Baltimore; and now the floundering Atlanta. Democrats value their power more than they love their country or the cities they govern.