Last week I explained why it’s so important for Democrats to brand Donald Trump as a “racist.”  President Trump has driven black unemployment to historic lows, and wages are rising.  Polls have suggested an increase in black support for Trump.  As a result, the media is working night and day to brand Trump a “racist.”  Its main tactic is lying, to turn any utterance of the President into a racist slur.  So when Trump speaks of “fine people” on each side of the dispute over Confederate war memorials, this becomes, “Trump calls white supremecists “fine people.”  When Trump notes that Baltimore is infested with rats, it becomes, “Trump calls blacks in Baltimore an infestation.”  They have to lie.  Democrats have no other message.  The problem is that the Dems (which of course includes the media), have applied the “racist” label so often and so broadly that it no longer has any meaning.  This is dangerous, because vile racists still exist.  If all political opponents are labeled “racist,” then you have no credibility, so in effect, none are racist.  Case in point, in addition to calling Donald Trump a racist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC (All Out Crazy) has called Mitch McConnell racist, along with anyone who supports the President.  She wasn’t done, though.  AOC also suggested Nancy Pelosi is racist, along with Democrat lawmakers who didn’t vote for her loony agenda.  It’s almost like the old Dr. Pepper commercial, “He’s a racist, she’s a racist, everyone but me’s a racist, wouldn’t you like to be a racist too?”  So what does “racist” really mean?  Merriam-Webster, a real dictionary, say it’s “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” Proving that the term “racist” is overused, and that the internet is not a dependable source of information, Dictionary.com lists as synonyms of “racist” “xenophobe” and “chauvinist,” and as an antonym “multicultural.”  These words have nothing to do with race.  A xenophobe is opposed to outsiders of any race.  A chauvinist believes his own country is best, such as Democrat Woodrow Wilson, who proclaimed, “My country right or wrong.”  But that may be a bad example because Democrat Wilson was a true racist.  Likewise, culture transcends race.  The government recognizes 5 races: American Indian or Alaska Native;  Asian; Black or African American; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; and White.  Hispanic isn’t a race, but an ethnicity, meaning people descended from Spanish speaking populations including that of Spain.  But it’s confusing.  I have 2 uncles who were Spaniards, so my cousins are Hispanic.  I, however remain a white European oppressor.  It seems Spanish Hispanics aren’t as important to politics as other Hispanics.  The Hispanic Network recognizes a subgroup, “Latinos,” who are from Latin America.  But this also breeds confusion.  My grandfather’s sister was from Argentina, so she could be considered a Latina.  All her descendants, who are my cousins, are both Latinos and Hispanic, and yet I remain a white European oppressor.  Maybe, rather than fighting identity politics, we should join it.  I recently got my DNA profile.  The majority of my DNA is Italian, so I should be considered Italic.  Italics have been discriminated against.  As a prosecutor in Alabama, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, about to try an Italian defendant, reportedly pulled down the shades in the courtroom to make the defendant appear black.  Former KKK member, Democrat Hugo Black, was a true racist.  Not good enough?  More than 10% of my DNA is from Western Asian, which includes the Middle East and Turkey, and who’s peoples are Arabs, Kurds, Persians, Azerbaijanis, and Anatolian Turks.  These are Semitic people, but with the rise of anti-Semetism in the Democrat party, this may not help me either.  Some of my DNA is North African, so might I be considered “African-American?”  I think not.  I even have more DNA from Senegal and West Africa than Elizabeth Warren has Native American DNA.  But, when you get down to Elizabeth Warren levels, that pretty much demonstrates the absurdity of your argument.  All identity politics is ridiculous and harmful.  Case in point, the aforementioned AOC has even identified racist vegetables.  I kid you not.  Commenting on a community garden, AOC denounced the planting of cauliflower.  “I don’t know, cauliflower or something, what you’re doing is that you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism, and that’s why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements, because they come with the colonial lens on them…”  It seems cauliflower too is racist.  As AOC explained, “black people don’t know how to cook cauliflower, and they don’t like it.”  If Donald Trump said such a thing, no doubt, it would be labelled racist.  Would planting collard greens be “colonial” and therefore racist?  I guess so.  Cauliflower was introduced to America in the 1920’s, but collard greens, which also derive from kale, were fed to the slaves in the South.  That must make collards racist.  But Michele Obama has a collard greens recipe in her cookbook, so does that make her racist too?  Wow!  Racism must be rampant.  It isn’t.  Racism surely exists, but applying that label to all opponents actually aids the true racists, who are able to hide among those who are falsely accused.  The Dems have adopted “racist” much as it was fashionable in 1950’s to denounce opponents as “communist.”  Of course, this is ironic, coming as it does from imbeciles who fancy themselves communists, a/k/a, Democratic Socialists.  It is a Stalinist tactic, denouncing an opponent as “anti-communist” or “counter-revolutionary.”  Throwing the word “racist” around is a Progressive attempt to enforce absolute political purity.  It’s ideological cleansing at its worst.  They divide us into groups by race and ethnicity not to pursue justice, but to pursue power.  Identity politics obscures our true identity, as Americans.  And whether you subscribe to the “melting pot” or the “salad bowl” view of the American experience, “American” necessarily includes people of all races and ethnicities.  So I’m satified just being “American.”  But, sadly, that doesn’t get you elected.