Divide and Conquer

Here's an interesting article on Politico about racial divisions among Obama supporters.

For working-class whites — whose coolness toward Obama helped tilt Ohio to Hillary Rodham Clinton — Obama spoke with understanding about why they dislike busing and affirmative action. “Like the anger in the black community, these resentments aren’t always shared in polite company,” he said.

For Hispanics, who have sided with Clinton in the vast majority of states this election, he lashed pundits scouring polls for signs of tension between “black and brown” and said the two communities face a common heritage of discrimination and inadequate public services.

Finally, Obama sought to connect with white Jewish voters — potentially one of the rawest nerves of all amid the Wright controversy — denouncing those blacks who see “the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.”

Now I know that it's important for politicians to appeal to different demographics with an impending election. However, these three paragraphs highlight the strategy among Democrats to divide people based on racial, religious, class, or sexual distinctions and make them feel like victims, who need government intervention to right their wrongs. Obama's candidacy is becoming a joke the more and more I read about his embrace of victimology.