Former president Barack Obama’s plan to save vice president Kamala Harris campaign has backfired spectacularly as Republican Donald Trump’s support surges.
While one should never under-estimate the Democratic Party’s ability to manipulate state machinery (called the Deep State) in its favour, Obama’s scolding of black males for non-support has backfired.
Democrats derive their support by creating a coalition of disgruntled groups; college women are promised gender equality and abortion on demand, while gay people are promised marriage equality (with straight people).
College students are promised loan forgiveness (the Supreme Court said it was illegal) and the Jewish lobby is promised free reign in killing Arabs in Gaza, as long as they do it nicely and with compassion.
In the last Joe Biden and Kamala Harris administration (2020-2024), Democrats, fearing that this coalition might not carry the day, opened the border with Mexico and allowed 10.6 million illegal immigrants. Republicans say the number could be 20 million.
Democrats then outlawed voter registration identification in the states which they control. Non-citizens can now vote in California.
Nowhere in the Democrat equation are hard- hat working class men (black and white) included.
Indeed, with immigrants flooding the market, and willing to take labor intensive work at any price, young working men find stiff competition as jobs in home (construction, 18-wheeler drivers, coal mining, etc.) are slowly slipping away from them.
The key issue in winning elections is that all sectors of the Democratic coalition turn up, the most reliable of these was the black vote.
But while educated black women benefited from these policies, generally earning more than their men, and if this was not enough, they received housing support and food stamps if they had children while having kicked out their male partners.
With this support black women have adopted a cheeky attitude towards their male partners.
The black church was slowly seduced by Obama into accepting trans-gender, abortion on demand, gay marriages, allowing trans-boy children to use girls’ toilets and compete in swimming competitions.
Over a long period, black and white males realized that as their jobs were being exported abroad, society itself was being feminised, public schools were in the forefront of de-gendering their children.
Boys and girls can choose their gender and parents who questioned school boards for implementing these sinful practices were investigated under terrorist laws.
Two huge electric vehicle factories were being built in Mexico ready to transport their products to the US under NAFTA (free trade agreement).
Trump visited these factories in Mexico. In September, the two factories suspended further construction.
Whispers had reached the Chinese that Trump was likely to win the election, and would not allow them to export their products into the US.
Word spread like wildfire in Detroit (the home of American automobile manufacturing).
The Union of Automobile Workers (UAW) which had supported the Democratic ticket polled its workers and found that 67% favoured Trump against Kamala. Michigan is a swing state, and this if the first time in 20 years the UAW had failed to support Democrats.
This is a big deal.
In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, two swing states, one whose main product are cheese and wheat, and the other, steel and heavy machinery manufacturing, were severely affected by China’s automobiles in Mexico and its free trade access to agricultural products.
Trump in his administration, had forced China to buy US$50 billion worth of agricultural products while placing a 100 percent tariff on imported Chinese automobiles.
Life was good for Wisconsin farmers and Pittsburg (PA) iron tool manufactures during the Trump years (2016-2020).
Ever the showman, Trump returned to Buck’s County, Pennsylvania, and took up a job at McDonalds to remind the citizens of how princes have gone up and how their jobs have been exported to China.
An estimated 5 000 Pennsylvanians turned up to see Trump and Kamala was completely upstaged.
Marijuana is the answer.
Obama’s mistake was his failure to inquire about the needs of black voters.
He further exacerbated the mistake by contacting an influencer, Wendel Pierce to demand of him this commitment. “Are we on the same page?”
Other black religious leaders, like Reverend Dr Jamal Bryant invited Kamala to deliver a sermon. Kamala reiterated the Democratic song that: “Trump will turn the power of government against his critics” and throw them in jail.
In the pulpit, she used the parable of the Good Samaritan as a defence in favour of welcoming strangers (illegal immigrants).
Having failed to capture black imagination, Kamala quickly revised her platform, offering young blacks US$20 000 forgivable business loans and marijuana smoking exemption from prosecution.
Discriminatory loans are illegal. Tolerance of marijuana smoking is an unforgivable condescending assumption that black families approve of the practice.
Attempts are being made in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to woo Arab, Muslim and Lebanese voters.
One Arab family lost 100 members in the Gaza genocide. While she expressed compassion in the slaughter of Arabs, US secretary of state, Anthony Blinken is in Israel as we speak. Kamala and Biden have sent him to assure Israel of uninterrupted supply of weapons of mass slaughter.
American Muslims must support Democrats, no questions asked. The same applies to blacks.
As to Trump locking up his critics-the only critics in jailhouses are Trumps’s supporters. Peter Navarro, Trump’s assistant was thrown in jail on spooky charges. Roger Stone was pulled out of bed in the early hours of the morning and thrown in jail.
Trump’s house was raided by armed agents with instructions to use deadly force. Trump has escaped three attempts on his life.
Beholden only to their Jewish financiers, Democrats are finding it difficult to keep the support of non-beneficiary groups.
*Ken Mufuka is a Zimbabwe patriot. He writes from the US. He can be reached at mufukaken@gmail.com