to capitvate, motivate and control the masses. It doesn’t have to be true, indeed, it can’t be true by definition. It loses its’ power when it becomes true. For instance, Castro & Co. won la revolucion in Cuba, but he still parades around in military style fatigies to keep the myth alive.

The myth of a horribly racist and oppressive America is necessary to keep libs in power. Without it, they remove the emotional element and are left with nothing but pompous and imbecilic programs and arrogant and self-righteous “leaders.” That’s one reason the prposterous message that making good grades in school is “acting white” is perpetrsated on young black schoolchildren.

This is also why, when racism in America really was an issue, it took a majority of Republicals to pass the Civil Rights Act. The myth of the ignorant, dangerous negro on which the Dems had depended for so long, had been exploded by the courageous example of Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, and others. So, the left needed a new myth. And voila! The fantasy that America is a horribly racist nation was born, even though it largely had been the left who either perpetuated that fact previously, were indifferent to it or profited by it from a pragmatic, rather then symbolic use of it.

As a case in point, the notorious and supposedly black-hating George C. Wallace of Alabama, early in his career was disliked by fellow whites because he addressed black attorneys appearing in his courtroom as “Sir” and “Mr.” It was only when he lost an election for NOT being sufficiently “anti-black” did he pull stunts like standing at the schoolhouse door to prevent blacks from attending. One might say that this is simply politics as usual, and maybe it is. But the left needs a myth to generate support while conservatives only need the facts.

See my diary: Liberal Fascism: A Discussion