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link Harry Reid: “I dont know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.” | The Weekly Standard.

If you think about this sentiment, you will see the embedded racism within.  An organization that professes to be the party of the people transparently exposes itself to be essentially a union shop.  If you extrapolated Mr. Reid’s logic, you’d have to include numerous other groups in society that could not possibly be Republican.  If we make a list of the vocal groups that regularly protest any activity seen to be hostile to their way of life and which can be blamed on Republican policies, they would include: Entertainers, gays, women, union members, blacks, drug dealers, young people, the poor, immigrants legal and illegal, Muslims, Jews, Atheists, Asians, environmentalists, academics, animal rights activists, abortionists, non-gun owners and of course the aforementioned Hispanics. 

Crunching the numbers over the entire U.S. population, this leaves only Donald Trump and 5 other guys who could be Republican.  Truly amazing then that the GOP can ever get elected given this small fan base.  Of course there is a possibility that individual members of the listed demographic groups don’t subscribe to the policies of the Democratic party and instead choose to think for themselves and identify more with the principles of the GOP.  It’s possible that some may be insulted at being lumped into some amorphous group and then pandered to by Democratic “leaders” like Reid.  While there may be appeal to some groups to have their interests championed at first, the bigger consequence is the balkanization of the country which leads to the divisiveness that the Dems always accuse the GOP of promoting.  As we have discussed in previous comments, people are naturally tribal and will join a mob given the right circumstances. 

Politics in the U.S. has evolved into a game of identifying a unique demographic slice and then to claim discrimination  by the larger group of society. Weak minds fall for the political call to action and voila, a new oppressed subgroup is formed to be organized, plied for political donations and worked for influence.  Essentially a union local is created.

A guy like Reid would be far more useful leading the charge for a college football team where his rants can actually be useful and in fact encouraged.  The ‘Us’ and “Them” ideology works great in the sports arena;  there it’s healthy, in politics not so much.

link Study: Attractive women overlooked for certain jobs – Yahoo! News.

Those damn glass ceilings.  If not for the rampant discrimination embedded in western culture, we’d likely have more attractive female tow truck drivers and prison guards. Instead, all these plum jobs go to privileged overweight fat guys characterized by their equal amounts of hair and tattoos on body areas not including head.   There’s no reason that a 110 pound Heidi Klum lookalike couldn’t keep unruly inmates in line, it’s only a matter of training.  Also, it’s well known that  most young girls, especially attractive ones, yearn to be tow truck drivers, but the prejudices of society prevent this from becoming a reality.  Instead, they are forced into stereotypical and dead end jobs in modelling, sales, law or medicine.

Perhaps the time is right for more affirmative action.  Young girls should be encouraged to aggressively pursue those jobs that have been off-limits to them just because of their comely appearance.  Who would you rather have empty your trash; Vito the unibrow guy, or someone resembling Katherine Heigl tossing the cans around? If plumbers looked like Carla Gugino, I’d be throwing sand in my toilet weekly.  But wait!  This article goes on to note the following:

“… Johnson (the researcher)  said beautiful people still enjoyed a significant edge when it came to the workplace. They tended to get higher salaries, better performance evaluations, higher levels of admission to college, better voter ratings when running for public office, and more favorable judgments in trials…”

So this is about plain greed and entitlements.  The attractive people (women) have advantages in most other areas of the job market.  It appears that they are trying to get ALL the jobs.  It’s not as if the non attractives have access to the jobs given to the attractive job applicants.  How many women who look like Michael Moore are featured in Got Milk commercials…or should?  The not so attractive had better start organizing soon or else their employment opportunity window will be just a small slit.  After all, there are only so many openings for daytime talk show hosts.