Non-specific generalities or......

It's a rainy, gloomy old day 'n I started out to write sumthing that maybe someone would chuckle over...my apologies!

S’funny, leastways I think so, how so many of my liberal friends think my arguments lack specificity....I paint with ‘too broad a brush’....generally speaking, that is...I was recently accused of using the term ‘wacko’s’ in writing about the liberal left....I pointed out that it wasn’t true, that I had replied to someone who had objected to someone else’ use of that term...’truth of the matter, however, I do tend to think of the extreme left wing liberals as wackos....to be fair, I think of the extreme right wing idealogues as equally wacky...fortunately, we live in a country where most of the responsible people are basically centrist...well, centrist with a present tilt toward the right but that’s only becuz a couple years ago, they tilted to the left long enuff to elect Obama....
Now, in the case of President Obama, there are any number of left-wing idealogues (wackos) that accuse the American electorate of ‘RACISM’.....(I capitalized that becuz of its importance in the American scheme of things)....Black Americans (that is, Americans of negro ancestry) over-whelmingly voted for Obama....in the high 90 percentile...
which by any standard indicates a high degree of racist politics...that’s alright becuz for generations, white Americans (read Americans of european ancestry) entered into a conspiracy (tacit or otherwise) to keep black Americans from voting at all...In a large part of the west ‘n southwest, we did the same thing to Americans of Mexican ancestry. Oh, ‘n let us not leave out the Aisians. We passed laws attempting to keep them out of this country entirely.,,.completely unsuccessfully as you probably know.'n lest we forget, the Aboriginal Americans that a national policy of genocide almost exterminated..
To be completely fair, we did it to the immigrant Irish, the ‘Bohunks’ of eastern europe, the Jews from anywhere in the world ‘n almost anyone from anywhere who didn’t quite fit the construction of whatever area of the country that superior ‘white people’ happened to inhabit.
Discrimination is a fact of life....has always been so, will always be so but America is the only country on this little blue planet that has been a true melting pot ‘n the extreme ‘wackos’ from either side of the spectrum are wrong to preach otherwise. Hatefully, spitefully wrong!
Americans of every ethnic background have come together here, have propered here more than in any other country in the wrold. We are indeed, a mixed-breed, mongrel Nation and the better for it. We are Americans!
And as far as discrimination in politics....well, hell....as a long dead Irish politican once famously stated (over 'n over) "All politics is local."
Barack Obama could not have been elected without the ‘white’ vote. Black Americans say that he could not have been elected without their support ‘n that’s true. It’s also true that he could not have been elected without the support of the Latino community.
I’m pretty sure that means that Obama couldn’t have been elected without the support of most Americans who seem finally to be basically color-blind. P'litically anyway. Generally speaking, that is.