“SET IN STONE AND GRANITE”
by Cody Robert Judy, ©2017
(Jan. 22, 2017) — Wednesday, November 9th, 2016, Democrats woke up in a cold sweat seeing President Donald J. Trump had won Election 2016. How could that possibly happen on the heels of two terms of popular Obama? What had they missed? How were the polls, pundits, and inside Washington, DCers so drastically wrong? How had Donald Trump slipped in on the Civil Rights Action America had propagated so faithfully, with identity politics so strong with minorities and women? How had Trump attracted so many Democrats away from the Democratic Party to get the steering wheel of the Office of the President? We Democrats are left to examine these questions and ponder them as a very minor party, humbled and reduced to ashes as more than 1000 offices have departed the Democratic Party across the country in the wake of the ObamaPopulism.
The whole idea of being an “insider” is being part of an inner circle that the masses are not part of. How rare is it when the inside of a nucleus becomes unattached to the outer circle, thereby rendering it on the outside while the outside become the inside? That happens when things get turned inside-out. You hate it when you get caught wearing that sweater with the tag hanging out? It’s embarrassing when you put your shirt on inside-out and go out in public. Most of us can identify with that, having done it on occasion, especially when we are in a hurry or rush.
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin started thinking
Civil Rights in Washington DC is set in Stone and Granite. There is no way anyone cannot gaze upon the Washington, Lincoln, or Martin Luther King Jr. Memorials and not think of an outstanding struggle of independence, freedom and liberty, all of which encompass Civil or political rights.
Some might say Political Rights are different then Civil Rights, but they would be mistaken. One might ask with the Amendments of the U.S. Constitution that enabled voting regardless of color or gender, with the advent of same-sex marriage upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, and Pro Choice, if there are any Civil Rights left that encompass large swaths of a percentage of the population in America and how when those become law the Conservative Path does not pick up an advantage of that law the same as liberals do?
This is part of how Republicans were able to benefit from representing themselves as pro-life and pro-choice, for marriage between a man and a women as well as same-sex marriage. When it a Civil Right goes through the struggle to become Law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court it is much less likely to ever be overturned and because of that, both Republican and Democratic Parties are able to claim the law will be upheld and thus attract the one-issue voters.
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