Look, just to be absolutely positively clear here: Vernon Jones is a sellout and a coon. Also, any “Democrat” who explicitly supports Trump or tells people to vote for Trump is not to be trusted. Not. at. all.
Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, this right here is what you get when you always “vote blue no matter who”. You get Republicans wearing the letter “D” behind their name. And I can almost promise you that Representative Jones supporters, at some point in the election cycle that got him elected, said, “He’s black! And we might not like all his policy positions, but he’s a Democrat, so we gotta vote for the lesser of two evils.”
And now look at the absolute fucking mess they have.
Vernon Jones is hardly the first conservative Democrat to support or openly endorse Trump over the last few years, but he is probably the best example of how centrist Dems successfully weaponize race (and in Hillary’s case, gender, and in Pete Buttigieg’s case, sexual orientation) in politics, where one aspect of a person’s identity is their only purity test.
Being gay didn’t make Mayo Pete any less conservative. Being a woman didn’t make Hillary any less conservative. Being black didn’t make Vernon any less of a sellout. But when the DNC uses weaponized identity politics, they will say things like, “disliking Hillary means you are a sexist,” or “disliking Pete means you’re homophobic”. As if our dislike of them had nothing to do with their conservative ideology, or their terrible political track records.
YES, attributes like race, gender and sexual orientation absolutely positively ARE important. They are. But they should never ever be more important than a person’s history of what they’ve said, done and supported.
I’m black. And I am here to tell anyone who will listen that even though he is also a black man, Representative Vernon Jones does not have black people’s or anyone else’s best interest at heart. Not even close.
“Vote blue no matter who” is a terrible mentality. It’s lazy thinking, made for sheeple who don’t wanna kick the tires or look under the hood before spending all their hard earned money on buying a new car.
It’s like a not-so-secret password that the Republican foxes have learned, and use to gain entry into the Democratic henhouse. Effectively, all a Republican has to do is call themselves a Democrat, and then they get the full backing of the DNC and centrist Democratic voters.
If you have any questions how harmful adhering to the #VBNMW okie doke is, please remember, it wasn’t even 30 days ago that people were seriously considering voting for people like Mike Bloomberg, and many many many prominent black, women, and gay Democrats immediately endorsed Mr. Stop-and-Frisk.
I’m telling you, #VBNMW is an establishment scam. And if nothing else, this election cycle should have proved just how successfully conservative “Democrats” (ie, Republicans) have used it.
Link: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/492724-georgia-democratic-legislator-bucks-party-with-trump-endorsement