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Because the answer lies close enough to the question, it can be examined forthwith. The "neurosis" of the Democratic Party is one of self-importance, self-absorption and infantile narcissism that attract any of like ilk. The issue of racism is simply an extension of the neurotic perception that ones own self-indulgent tendencies should be extolled and protected from challenge. Namely, "Elitism" promises "superiority" and "eternal cleansing" of any perceived failings to any that wish to follow its mantra... no matter how personally defining and confining the failings of race, color, creed, or ethnicity are wrongly held to be. Indeed, Elitists preach that "all" can be cleansed, including the very ill-defined predilections and prejudicial predispositions of race, color, creed, or ethnicity. It's one of the biggest scams of "whitewashing" known to history, and the nefarious but necessary psychological leveraging factor belonging to groupthink.

Only by joining the elitist club, they would have us imagine, can one be cleansed from their sin of being different, of having different colored skin, of being a different race and ethnicity, etc. The lie so skillfully and surreptitiously spread is the notion that only by becoming an "Elitist" can one then rid oneself of their own socially inconvenient differences and definitions to non-meaningful trivia, allowing one to finally rise above those perceived limitations. Although escapism at heart, "Elitism" is purported to be the magic elixir that so many crave in order to finally overcome the injustices of inequality, by promising to make one not equal (heaven forbid!) but "superior" to others... it brings parity to the very ones that did the discriminating, the very same ones who so wrongly prejudicially predefined and hurt others in the past.

p>This is gang psychology stripped raw for all to see.... br> -- Dr. Gregory C.D. Young br> Neuroscientist and Physicist br> Asheville, North Carolina /p> p> Although Jeffrey Lord's piece reminds us that the Democrat Party was the party that DEFENDED SLAVERY, I believe it is still the party of division and intolerance. One recent example, the Director of the Young Democrat Party was on Bill O'Reilly's "The Factor." When O'Reilly pressed her on whether John Edwards should have fired the two ANTI-Catholic bloggers, this woman said with fervor "NO." When pushed further whether she would have fired them, again "NO." However, when he asked her if these same two bloggers wrote anti homosexual, anti-black, or anti-Muslim comments, would she push for their dismissal, her rapid response was "YES!" When O'Reilly pointed out her hypocrisy, her only response was, "That's different." How so, she never answered. So although the Democrat Party believes (self-righteously) that it is the defender of homosexual or black rights, Catholics or Christians, well, just read the liberal papers or watch the liberal news and you'll know where we stand with the intolerable Democrat Party. br> -- Joellen M. Rarebit br> Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey /p>

Jeffrey Lord wrote, "What political party fought ferociously to defend and keep slavery, to build and insist on a social system of segregation, with both slavery and segregation giving a social, moral and legal thumbs up or wink-and-a-nod to 'a few white boys' sexually assaulting black women? The Democratic Party," and "Is it any wonder that a political party that has such sentiments as its founding principles moved seamlessly from slavery to segregation to racial quotas..." Just so.

I'm just old enough to remember the truly segregated beaches, de facto if no longer enforceable under the then recently defunct Jim Crow laws, of the early '60s S. Florida. I also remember many "yellow dog" Democrats (a Southerner who'd rather vote for a "yella dog" than for a Republican) I knew, a term you don't hear much anymore. In particular was a nice little matronly South Carolinian lady with the most beautiful blue-blood Southern accent spouting the most vicious hatred of all things Republican.

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